Do What You Are

Do What You Are One of the best career books I’ve ever read is Paul Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger’s Do What You Are. Paul Tieger is a coach and founding father of The New England Type Institute, the place he has trained 1000's of managers, HR professionals, profession consultants, psychologists and educators. He bases his career advice on character type (utilizing the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator, or MBTI.) Do What You Are is among the books I at all times attain for once I work with jobseekers. On his web site, Tieger says that career recommendation has historically been based mostly on “an excellent match for the jobseeker’s values, interests and abilities.” There’s just one downside with this method, Tieger says: it doesn’t work. One reason is that these factors change over time. What was a great match for you at 22 may be a terrible fit when you’re 30. What doesn’t change, Tieger (and I) believe, is your basic personality traits â€" the way you view the world. The MBTI was developed after WWII by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers to assist women getting into the economic workforce after the war discover the best job match. The assessment’s publisher says that two million MBTI assessments are delivered annually, making it one of the most extensively used character assessments in the world. Myers and Briggs based mostly their theories on Carl Jung’s persona analysis. Jung measured two cognitive features and categorized people by which one they used most frequently: Jung added introversion and extraversion to create patterns of habits that could be measured and predicted. Based on his ideas, Myers and Briggs created an evaluation that resulted in one of 16 persona sorts. Jung believed that your persona type was an innate attribute, whereas Myers and Briggs believed that it was more like a choice, making life â€" and work â€" much easier and extra snug if you did it in your preferred type. Tieger takes this persona concept and applies it to your profession decisions in a method that’s easy to understand and follow. He says that when you are doing a job that matches and rewards your character type, you feel energized about your work. Tieger goes on to talk in regards to the sort of work each type finds rewarding and the sorts of work-mates that will perceive you and make you're feeling appreciated. It’s the kind of profession advice that's versatile enough to work with any kind of profession and be very helpful when you’re trying to determine among a number of variations of the same profession. For instance, let’s say you’re thinking about healthcare as a profession, but unsure about which course could be greatest for you. Your MBTI end result might help decide whether or not you'll be happier as a pediatric nutritionist or as a forensic lab technician. I’ll be excerpting from Do What You Are over the subsequent few posts. Published by candacemoody Candace’s background includes Hu man Resources, recruiting, coaching and assessment. She spent a number of years with a national staffing firm, serving employers on each coasts. Her writing on enterprise, career and employment issues has appeared within the Florida Times Union, the Jacksonville Business Journal, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and 904 Magazine, in addition to several nationwide publications and websites. Candace is often quoted in the media on local labor market and employment issues.