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Let your personality type guide you toward a meaningful career. Advice influences finding a new job or career, but most of it misses the mark when it comes to achieving and sustaining real satisfaction at work. The simple truth, is that to be happy and successful in a career you need to be doing work that aligns with your personality. In What's Your Type of Career?, psychologist, teacher, and HR professional, Donna Dunning provides concrete links between personality and career to help anyone manage transition, enrich a career path, or move into opportunities that best suit his or her unique talents. On the basis of data from thousands of people working in hundreds of different jobs, Dunning uses the well-established personality type theory of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator« (MBTI«) instrument to identify eight natural work stylesùthe Responder, Explorer, Expeditor, Contributor, Assimilator, Visionary, Analyzer, and Enhancerùand explore how people use each to communicate, organize, approach tasks, solve problems, make decisions, lead, and be led. Rich with a variety of exercises, checklists, tips, and strategies, Dunning takes readers through an easy five-step career planning process that highlights their strengths and skills to help them make better career choices.
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