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Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 1785
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4 Rev Upd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316167266
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.264
EAN: 9780316167260
ASIN: 0316167266
Publication Date: March 21, 2007
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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.
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The Right Career = A Rewarding Life! June 13, 2008
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.
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 Useful for a Career Changer, but with a couple of irritations April 28, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 February 13, 2008
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!
 Very informative! November 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was very interesting and informative to read through this book. I learned a lot about myself and I think I now have a better understanding of what kind of job I am really looking for.
It's so so. October 30, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
To me without going over the results with a professional you are still in the same boat. The test results fluctuate if you retest depending on what mood you are in. Maybe you may get more out of it than I did. It cannot hurt to try. I certainly liked it much better than the Umbrella books.
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