Monday, April 25, 2011

50 Best Jobs For Your Personality By Michael Farr, Laurence Shatkin

50 Best Jobs for Your Personality

50 Best Jobs for Your Personality
By Michael Farr, Laurence Shatkin

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Product Description

Research has proven that matching your personality to a career brings work satisfaction and success. With this best-selling book's help, you discover your personality type and the 50 best jobs that relate to it. Part I overviews how personality relates to careers. Part II features a self-assessment for determining you personality type: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising or Conventional. Part III contains the best job lists, including the 50 best jobs overall for each personality type. Other lists for each personality type include the best-paying jobs, jobs with the highest projected growth, best jobs based on education lever, best part-time jobs, and best jobs for the self-employed--145 best jobs lists in all. In Part IV, you find a gold mine of facts about the 50 best jobs for each of the six personality types & 300 job descriptions.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #43967 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-04
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .99" h x 7.26" w x 9.26" l, 1.79 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 484 pages

Features

  • ISBN13: 9781593576578
  • Condition: USED - Very Good
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Editorial Reviews

Review
"Written in a friendly tone . . . The personality test is easy to understand but thorough in finding the reader's personality." -- Ellen Tevault, Librarian, Indiana State Library

About the Author
Michael Farr has been teaching, writing, and developing his job search techniques for over 20 years. He has written dozens of books that have sold over 2 million copies. Mike emphasizes practical, results-oriented methods that have been proven to reduce the time it takes to find a job. His commonsense advice has made his books the most widely used in job search programs.

Laurence Shatkin has 30 years in the career information field, presents and blogs on career issues, and is the author of many best-selling books. Dr. Shatkin is sought after by the media for his expertise on occupations and appears regularly on national news programs. He has appeared on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, the Fox Business Network, ABC News Now, CBS Newspath, NPR, and in many other TV and radio shows. He has been quoted in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, Men's Health, Forbes, and many other major publications.

Customer Reviews

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30 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
2Another disappointing job search book
By Raychel
I have long been hoping to find the ONE career book that will point me in the write direction of finding the career that I want out of life. I'm coming to believe that these books are mostly a waste of money.

This book contains a personality test that is not unlike any other career assessment test that you can take online, for FREE. It then contains a boat load of charts...50 highest paying jobs for this personality type....50 jobs for this personality type with the highest amount of women/men employed...ect ect. If this sort of thing interests you then by all means this book might be for you.

Most of the book however is a list of different jobs for the different personality types that contains descriptions, experience/education needed, related job, ect but it is all on a VERY BASIC level.

Save your money and speak with a career counsler.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
5Must Read for Counselors, Consultants, and Teachers
By Dr. Mary Askew
50 Best Jobs for Your Personality is excellent reference book that provides the latest information on occupations and Holland Codes.

50 Best Jobs has detailed information on each occupation - Holland Codes, job descriptions, earnings, job growth and openings, education/ training requirements, skill areas, and GOE Interest Areas.

Extensive job lists provide a wealth of information -

- Highest Pay, Fastest Growth, and Most Openings
- Education, Job Training, and Work Experience Requirements
- GOE Interest Fields and Groups

50 Best Jobs for Your Personality is useful for -

- Career Exploration
- College Major Exploration
- Career Planning
- Career Transition
- Occupational Information
- Career Counseling
- Career Decision-Making

As a bonus, 50 Best Jobs has a career assessment and an overview of the Holland Code Career Model.

This is an excellent resource for counselors, consultants, and teachers.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
5Very helpful to high schoolers!
By Mary S. Long
I have a nephew who is at a loss as to what career path to take...I gave this book to him and he spent the entire holiday week off from school reading this. Its chocked with information that relates to one's personality and what career fits with your talents. It points out a surprising number of sub fields one could consider, which I think fascinated my nephew.
This is a worthwhile book to give teenagers. IT explores the personality, likes and dislikes of certain fields, and actually spikes the teen's imagination and curiosity about different career fields one may not be familiar with

 

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