Career match Connecting who you are with what you'll love to do
Book - 2017
"What should I do with my life? It's one of the biggest questions we face, and one that's so easy to get wrong. Career Match helps you find the best fit for your skills, interests, and core personality -- the secret to a truly satisfying professional life. Whether you're starting a job search, selecting a course of study, or hoping to switch out of a career that never clicked, just one simple quiz points you in the right direction. Derived from popular Jungian and Temperament models but focused specifically on careers, the book's 10-minute assessment and original Color Q model place you in one of 16 personality groups. For most users, the picture that emerges is uncannily accurate--illuminating their strengths and w...eaknesses, attractive career prospects, ideal workplaces and bosses, tailored interviewing tips, and more. Expanding on the first edition, case studies of 57 professionals and well-known personal-ities add depth and detail to the descriptions of personality types. This second edition also includes dozens of new career options, including gaming, web design, alternative energy, cybersecurity, food science, robotics, biomedical engineering, oceanography, and computer simulation"--Publisher's description.
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
AMACOM
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Second edition
- Item Description
- Revised edition of the authors' Career match, c2007.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780814438152
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- People Profiled
- Part 1. The Jump Start: Defining Yourself and Others
- 1. Don't Read the Whole Book
- 2. The Color Q Personality Style Self Assessment
- 3. A Quick History of Personality Typing
- Part 2. Greens: "Let's Humanize It"
- 4. Greens Overall
- 5. Green/Gold Extroverts
- 6. Green/Gold Introverts
- 7. Green/Red Extroverts
- 8. Green/Red Introverts
- Part 3. Reds: "Let's Do It Now"
- 9. Reds Overall
- 10. Red/Blue Extroverts
- 11. Red/Blue Introverts
- 12. Red/Green Extroverts
- 13. Red/Green Introverts
- Part 4. Blues: "Let's Change It"
- 14. Blues Overall
- 15. Blue/Gold Extroverts
- 16. Blue/Gold Introverts
- 17. Blue/Red Extroverts
- 18. Blue/Red Introverts
- Part 5. Golds: "Let's Do It Right"
- 19. Golds Overall
- 20. Gold/Blue Extroverts
- 21. Gold/Blue Introverts
- 22. Gold/Green Extroverts
- 23. Gold/Green Introverts
- Part 6. Getting the Job
- 24. Before I Do Something Stupid: Adjusting to Other Styles
- 25. Would I Make a Good Entrepreneur?
- 26. Money and Compensation
- Part 7. Creating a Customized Roadmap for Your Professional Life
- 27. A Roadmap for Putting It All Together
- Notes
- Bibliography and Resources
- Index
- About the Authors
Many of us share the fantasy that we can do anything and be anyone with just a little more effort. This is an illusion that blocks real development. Growth does not require significant change or that we emulate role models because we are somehow innately inadequate. It does require that we understand and accept the dynamics of our own genuine style--its unique strengths and weaknesses. It also means that in time, we tone down some of our blind spots. There are many systems for understanding people. This is the one I have found that probes most deeply into the core of human behavior. It confirms that each personality style is natural, equal, observable, and predictable, and that each can be equally effective at work. Truly exceptional people always do so much more than is required. The only way to do that without severe burnout is from passion born of confidence. You are the right person doing the right thing in the right place and enjoying it. Sound impossible? Not at all, for those who are true to themselves in spite of naysayers, parental expectations, and societal pressures. Use this book to reveal your road to being exceptional. What Color Q Is Not Color Q is not the answer to all career problems. It is not a painless shortcut to maturity and wisdom. Most of all, it does not measure the impact of education, intelligence, mental health, special talents, economic status, motivation, drive, or environmental influences on the core personality type. There are billions of unique people on our planet and only four Color groups. If you wonder what that leaves, I say only the deepest, most important part of you--the part that always knows what it really wants and won't be happy until it gets respect. The framework is not gender specific. It works equally well for males and females. Men and women are found in each personality style, though in some groups the percentages differ. Finally, Color Q is not a complete, in-depth Myers-Briggs evaluation. It is a ten-minute self assessment designed to acquaint you with concepts that are applicable to your career and personal life. What Color Q Is Color Q is about coding people--ourselves and others. We do it all the time. "He is shrewd and entrepreneurial." "She is energetic and artistic." This helps us to group our impressions mentally and store them in the appropriate synapse of our brain for future use. Color Q is also a tool for understanding the sometimes incomprehensible behaviors of bosses and coworkers (and even friends, dates, and mates). Since so much career advancement depends on your people skills, you'll find your increased ability to read people perhaps the most valuable outcome of reading this book. Enjoy this journey. Excerpted from CAREER MATCH, Second Edition: Connecting Who You Are with What You'll Love to Do by Shoya Zichy with Ann Bidou. Copyright © 2017 by Shoya Zichy. Published by AMACOM Books, a division of American Management Association, New York, NY. Used with permission. All rights reserved. http://www.amacombooks.org.