You may be surprised to learn that everyone is born with one of sixteen different Personality Types. And although all individuals are unique, people of the same “type” are remarkably similar in important ways. Find out how knowing your personality type can help you find the perfect career for you.

Personality Type is not new. It’s been recognized for more than fifty years as one of the best ways of understanding people. In fact, Type is used daily by 89% of the Fortune 100 Companies to help employees be more productive and successful.

I’m Paul Tieger, author of Do What You Are, which was the first book to recognize the key role Type plays in helping people make more satisfying career choices and be more successful in their work. Since it was first published in 1992, I’ve helped over a million people harness the power of Personality Type.

Why is Type so critical to this process?

Because your Type reflects your essence – your inborn core values and key talents. When your job is a good fit for your Type, it energizes you; you look forward to going to work and are much more likely to succeed. But the opposite is also true: when your job is not a good fit, your work drains your energy, makes you prone to burnout and you’re much less likely to be successful.

So type can not only help you identify the right job, it can also help you succeed in the job search by capitalizing on your natural strengths. This is so important because generic advice seldom works for people whose personality types are very different from each other.

For example, “networking” is generally considered the essential activity recommended by career professionals. However, while Extraverts are typically energized by and enjoy this process, most Introverts find it draining, daunting and deflating. There are other strategies which work better for them. In reality, career advice that might be perfect for one person may be perfectly wrong for another.

Customizing your job search: it’s all about you!

In the coming months, I will be authoring a series of articles called
“Do it Your Way: How to Customize Your Job Search for Maximum Success.” These articles will deal with many key aspects of the career process and offer targeted, customized, and proven advice that will work for people of all different types. Here are some of the topics I’ll cover:

• Your Career Satisfiers: What You Need in a Job For it to Be Truly Satisfying
• Customize Your Job Search: How to Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Need
• Surviving the Job Search: How to Stay Sane in Crazy Times By Understanding Your Stress Triggers and “Stress Busters”
• Which Careers Fit You Best? Yes, They Are Out There!
• Thinking Outside the Box: When it Does and Doesn’t Come Naturally
• How to Make Yourself More Valuable to Your Current

or Future Employer

• “If You Can’t Be With The One You Love…”: How to Make Your Current Job More Satisfying
• Ace the Job Interview by SpeedREACHing Your Interviewer: Learn the “Radar” Clues That Allow You to Quickly Speak Their Language
• The Extravert Advantage & What Introverts Can Do About It
• What Energizes You At Work…and Why That Can Make Such a Huge Difference to You and Your Employer
• Getting In and Moving Up: How to Get and Stay Engaged
• Keeping Your Job by Building Successful Relationships
• Selling Yourself 101: What You Bring to The Team and How To Make Your Best Case
• Organizational Culture: Do You Fit, and What Happens if You Don’t?
• How to Get Asked Back for a Second Interview
• Managing Your Job Search: Working Smarter, Not Harder

The first step to harnessing the power of Personality Type, is finding out your type. I encourage you to take our quick, free and extremely accurate PersonalityType.com Assessment™ at Personalitytype.com, today.

See you next time…

Paul Tieger