Product Description

For over 10 years Do What You Are has helped hundreds of thousands of people find the job that suits their personality type best. It lists the wide array of occupations that are popular with your personality type, including todays hottest career tracks in growth areas such as e-commerce, biotechnology, new media, and telecommunications. Throughout, the authors provide savvy career advice and highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type with real-life examples.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2509 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-21
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

About the Author
Paul Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger are principals of Communications consultants LLC and have been training professionals in the use of Personality Type for twenty years. They teach individuals and groups how to improve their effectiveness at work and at home. They live in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Customer Reviews

The Right Career = A Rewarding Life!
I read this book about ten year ago and found it had many good ideas that have been helpful.

Happily getting up in the morning to go to work is a key element for a rewarding life!

Do What You Are explores the sixteen different personality types of people (enhancing the work done by Myers Briggs) and what type of career we are best suited for.

Also, the book also addresses interpersonal relationships, understanding one's own personality better, and the personality of others. Like attracts like and gravitating towards a career that has others with similar interests helps provide a rewarding career.

The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide to: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking

Useful for a Career Changer, but with a couple of irritations
Since there are so many review here, I will focus on just a few points.

Overall, I found the book very useful. I was able to figure out my type, which was the same one I had discovered using online inventories. But as the book goes into much more detail (than the online inventories)--and requires more work--I was more confident that I had found my "right" type. (Plus, my type has remained the same for over ten years now.)

Irritations: (1) The overuse of exclamation points. So many writers of career books do this, and the writers of this book are no exception. If the writing is good, one doesn't have to over-rely on exclamation points, which to me seems a bit juvenille and "fluffy".

(2) In one of the final chapters (on how to use Ten Steps to find a job) the authors could have been considerate enough to include the page numbers when they say, for example, "Review the Common Threads section of your type chapter." Without the page number, the reader must go back to the Table of Contents, then to the chapter, then leaf through it to find the appropriate section. Had the authors simply put, for example, (pp. 125 - 127), it would have made things easier for this reader. This seemed to be a careless oversight, but one that burdens the reader unnecessarily.

But overall, a useful book for a job search, especially when used in combination with "What Color is Your Parachute?"

Pretty Thorough
The authors seem to have put a lot of work into writing this guide.
The personality descriptions are pretty accurate, and though this is
not the letter and law of what you should do for a profession, it certainly gives a nudge in the right direction!