Comments on: Connecting Personality Type to Your Career Choice http://www.dunning.ca/blog/connecting-personality-type-to-your-career-choice/ Mon, 14 May 2012 20:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Donna Dunning http://www.dunning.ca/blog/connecting-personality-type-to-your-career-choice//comment-page-1#comment-316 Donna Dunning Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:31:54 +0000 http://www.dunning.ca/?p=869#comment-316 Hi Grace. The best resource for job matching advice is yourself. Assessing who you are and how you prefer to work is the first step to finding a good match. From a personality type perspective, ENFPs usually prefer unstructured, creative work that provides opportunities to interact, entertain, express themseives, and/or help others. They are often attracted to working in the arts, writing, humanities, and education (although these are certainly not your only options). As well as thinking about your personality preferences, you also want to consider where you want to live, your values, interests, skills, lifestyle, and constraints. I find, when working with ENFPs, generating ideas is the easy part. It is the researching and narrowing that is more difficult. Paying attention to the realities, analyzing choices, and folowing through with decisions can be less attractive for them than imagining what could be. This is blatent self promotion, but I think you might find my book <em>What's Your Type of Career?</em> a helpful guide for your career transition. Look for the new edition, just published. It has updated occupational information and new sections on development and managing stress at work. Hi Grace. The best resource for job matching advice is yourself. Assessing who you are and how you prefer to work is the first step to finding a good match. From a personality type perspective, ENFPs usually prefer unstructured, creative work that provides opportunities to interact, entertain, express themseives, and/or help others. They are often attracted to working in the arts, writing, humanities, and education (although these are certainly not your only options). As well as thinking about your personality preferences, you also want to consider where you want to live, your values, interests, skills, lifestyle, and constraints. I find, when working with ENFPs, generating ideas is the easy part. It is the researching and narrowing that is more difficult. Paying attention to the realities, analyzing choices, and folowing through with decisions can be less attractive for them than imagining what could be. This is blatent self promotion, but I think you might find my book What’s Your Type of Career? a helpful guide for your career transition. Look for the new edition, just published. It has updated occupational information and new sections on development and managing stress at work.

]]> By: Grace Adele Hochella http://www.dunning.ca/blog/connecting-personality-type-to-your-career-choice//comment-page-1#comment-307 Grace Adele Hochella Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:29:10 +0000 http://www.dunning.ca/?p=869#comment-307 Hello! Thank you for the article. I am an off the chart ENFP and I recently was laid off from my job as a surgeon's assistant/nurse at an oral surgeon's office. I have since learned in this quiet time of job searching that I do not care much for nursing. My degree is in music and I am thinking of a career change. Where can I seek job matching advice? Thank you! Hello! Thank you for the article. I am an off the chart ENFP and I recently was laid off from my job as a surgeon’s assistant/nurse at an oral surgeon’s office. I have since learned in this quiet time of job searching that I do not care much for nursing. My degree is in music and I am thinking of a career change. Where can I seek job matching advice?

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