From the Publisher
Whether you are just starting out, maintaining the work you already have, looking for a change, exploring business ideas, or thinking about retirement activities, Whatıs Your Type of Career? Unlock the Secrets of Your Personality to Find Your Perfect Career Path will show readers how to find work that is both meaningful and rewarding.
The guidance found in this book is based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. The first portion of the book uses powerful, but easy-to-use worksheets to guide the reader in determining their personality type. The second and third parts are in-depth, highly-relevant, jargon-free descriptions and explanations of the eight "Ways of Working." They explore the work preferences, strengths, areas for development, learning, teamwork, and leadership styles of each type. They provide practical suggestions for types of work that attract each personality type and guide the reader to match their personality type with the appropriate career path.
The process outlined in Whatıs Your Type of Career? is very useful to anyoneıs pursuit of the perfect career. It will help readers manage transitions, enrich career choices, and move into opportunities that will best suit their unique talents by showing how to:
- Use natural strengths and skills based on personality type to expand and
enhance work
- Become more aware of what makes work more fulfilling
- Make better career choices to suit motivations and preference
- Be better prepared for the changing future by understanding their natural
"Way of Working"
- Identify areas for growth
- Initiate personal growth
- Heighten career satisfaction
Beyond the individual level, companies want to ensure that they are using the strengths of their workers. What's Your Type of Career? can provide a quick and effective way to do that. If a current HR program does not look at individual differences as strengths and areas for improvement, they can use this tool to improve their process.
Publishers Weekly
Dunning, a psychologist specializing in career issues, identifies 16 personality types using the Jungian-based Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Self-evaluation focuses on several areas: processing information by linear thinking vs. wondering how others will be affected; focusing on facts vs. intuition; the preference to take immediate action vs. the preference to wait and deliberate. Once people identify their type, Dunning (Learning Your Way) proposes eight corresponding "Ways of Working" that suggest promising fields and positions for different personalities. Although Dunning's writing is clear and accessible, readers may have difficulty identifying their primary personality type. Still, her answer to this problem is persuasive: "one core preference will define your characteristic approach to work. The other approaches will be used in support of, and secondary to, your preferred approach." First-timers as well as those familiar with self-assessment tests will find the final two chapters the most practical. "Taking Stock" and "Shaping Your Career" focus on options such as part-time work in making a career change or determining which variables matter most, from salary and job stability to handling a variety of tasks, helping society, etc. (Apr.) Forecasts: Lacking a fresh approach or a well-known author, this book will have an uphill battle against more established books on this subject, such as Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger's Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type. Still, a glowing cover endorsement by Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute, along with planned radio and print campaigns may give it an initial boost. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Internet Book Watch
In What's Your Type Of Career?: Unlock The Secrets Of Your Personality To Find Your Perfect Career Path, psychologist, adult learning specialist, and certified human resources professional Donna Dunning bases her invaluable advice and insights on the "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" and offers easy-t-use worksheets to guide the reader in determining their specific personality type. Then Dunning goes on to provide in-depth, highly-relevant, jargon-free, "reader friendly" descriptions and explanations of the eight "Ways of Working" and explores the work preferences, strengths, areas for development, learning, teamwork, and leadership styles of each type. Practical suggestions are made regarding the types of work that attract each personality type and guide the reader to match their personality type with the appropriate career path. What's Your Type Of Career? is highly recommended for those about to enter the workforce for the first time, those who are re-entering the workforce after a sustained absence, and those wanting to improve their existing career prospects in this age of corporate globalization, downsizing, and technology driven worker mobility.
What People Are Saying
William Bridges
Every book on type has a chapter on career, so you may wonder if there is really anything new to say on the subject. But there is, and Donna Dunning has said it. In the way she describes the types, in the way she uses checklists to establish your type, in the way she talks about career implications of the resultsin many ways she offers new and helpful assistance to anyone who wants to base a career on who s/he really is.
— (William Bridges, author of Transitions and Managing Transition)
Helen Harkness
The key to self-acceptance and dealing effectively with others personally and professionally is knowing and perhaps temporarily varying our natural instinctive style. Dunning takes us to a new level in understanding and gaining insight into exploring our type and relating directly to career choices. This is must reading for adults in the career change and renewal process.
— (Helen Harkness, president, Career Design Associates, Inc., author of The Career Chase and Donıt Stop the Career Clock)
Robin A. Sheerer
Donna Dunningıs What's Your Type of Career?" is packed full of information about how our personalities mesh (or donıt) with our work choices. It will help readers understand themselves and make authentic career choices that build on their strengths, skills, preferences and values. This is a must read for anyone who uses MBTI®.
— (Robin A. Sheerer, president, Career Enterprises, Inc., author of No More Blue Mondays)
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