50 Best Jobs for Your Personality

BThree Steps toJob Option ® PersonalityEdition Part of JIST’s Best Jobs® Series 300 Job Descriptions for 6 Personality Types c 140+ Best Jobs Lists, Including Jobs with the Best Pay, Fastest Growth, and Most Openings c Make the best career fit for your personality type: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, or Conventional. c “Best jobs” lists for each personality type, organized by earnings, growth, education level, and much more. c Useful job descriptions packed with the latest details. Featured on CareerBuilder.com, CNN.com, MSN.com, and AOL.com Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D. Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D. Foreword by Kristine Dobson, President, Career 1 Consulting Also in JIST’s Best Jobs Series c Best Jobs for the 21st Century c 200 Best Jobs for College Graduates c 300 Best Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree c 200 Best Jobs Th rough Apprenticeships c 40 Best Fields for Your Career c 225 Best Jobs for Baby Boomers c 250 Best-Paying Jobs c 150 Best Jobs for Your Skills c 150 Best Jobs Through Military Training c 175 Best Jobs Not Behind a Desk c 150 Best Jobs for a Better World c 10 Best College Majors for Your Personality c 200 Best Jobs for Introverts c 150 Best Low-Stress Jobs c 150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs 50 Best Jobs for Your Personality, Second Edition © 2009 by JIST Publishing Published by JIST Works, an imprint of JIST Publishing 7321 Shadeland Station, Suite 200 Indianapolis, Indiana 46256-3923 Phone: 800-648-JIST E-mail: info@jist.com Fax: 877-454-7839 Web site: www.jist.com Some Other Books by the Authors Michael Farr The Quick Resume & Cover Letter Book Same-Day Resume Overnight Career Choice 100 Fastest-Growing Careers Top 100 Careers Without a Four-Year Degree Laurence Shatkin Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan 90-Minute College Major Matcher Your $100,000 Career Plan New Guide for Occupational Exploration 150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs Quantity discounts are available for JIST products. Please call 800-648-JIST or visit www.jist.com for a free catalog and more information. Visit www.jist.com for information on JIST, free job search information, tables of contents and sample pages, and ordering information on our many products. Acquisitions Editor: Susan Pines Development Editor: Stephanie Koutek Cover and Interior Designer: Aleata Halbig Cover Illustration: Comstock, Fotosearch Stock Photography Printed in the United States of America Interior Layout: Aleata Halbig Proofreaders: Linda Seifert, Jeanne Clark Indexer: Cheryl Lenser 14 13 12 11 10 09 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Farr, J. Michael. 50 best jobs for your personality / Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin; foreword by Kristine Dobson. p. cm. -- (Jist’s best jobs series) Includes index. ISBN 978-1-59357-657-8 (alk. paper) 1. Vocational guidance--Psychological aspects. 2. Career development--Psychological aspects. 3. Personality and occupation. 4. Vocational interests. 5. Occupations--Psychological aspects. I. Shatkin, Laurence. II. Title. III. Title: Fifty best jobs for your personality. HF5381.15.F3618 2009 331.702--dc22 2009006041 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in articles or reviews. Making copies of any part of this book for any purpose other than your own personal use is a violation of United States copyright laws. For permission requests, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center at www.copyright.com or (978) 750-8400. We have been careful to provide accurate information throughout this book, but it is possible that errors and omissions have been introduced. Please consider this in making any career plans or other important decisions. Trust your own judgment above all else and in all things. Trademarks: All brand names and product names used in this book are trade names, service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective owners. ISBN 978-1-59357-657-8 This Is a Big Book, But It Is Very Easy to Use Psychologists have long understood a principle that many of us consider just common sense: that people have an aspect called personality that makes them feel more comfortable in some situations than in others. People who have a certain personality feel more capable of doing certain things and dealing with certain problems; they also feel more accepted when they are among people with personalities similar to their own. This is especially true for one place where people spend a major portion of their time: at work. People want to feel that they fit in with the people and with the activities where they work. If personality is the key to this feeling of fitting in, then you need to consider this question: What kind of personality do you have? Maybe you can come up with a few ways to describe yourself, such as “sunny,” “energetic,” “conscientious,” “loyal,” “outgoing,” “funny,” or “competitive.” But what do those terms suggest for the kind of work you might enjoy and do well? What terms might be more useful? Some Things You Can Do with This Book This book can help you think about your personality in terms that have proven relevance to the world of work. You’ll learn about the personality types that many psychologists and career development practitioners use to describe people and jobs. You’ll take a quick assessment to help you clarify your dominant personality type. Then you’ll dig into a gold mine of facts about the jobs that are the best fit for your personality type—and that are the best for other reasons, too, such as their wages and job openings. The lists of “best jobs” will help you zero in on promising careers, and the descriptive profiles of the jobs will open your eyes to career choices that previously you may not have known much about. We all want to fit in somewhere. And there are probably several different careers where each of us could fit in. But why not do it in a really good job? That’s what this book can help you choose. Credits and Acknowledgments: While the authors created this book, it is based on the work of many others. The occupational information is based on data obtained from the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Census Bureau. These sources provide the most authoritative occupational information available. The job titles and their related descriptions are from the O*NET database, which was developed by researchers and developers under the direction of the U.S. Department of Labor. They, in turn, were assisted by thousands of employers who provided details on the nature of work in the many thousands of job samplings used in the database’s development. We used the most recent version of the O*NET database, release 13.0. We appreciate and thank the staff of the U.S. Department of Labor for their efforts and expertise in providing such a rich source of data. Table of Summary of Major Sections Introduction. A short overview to help you better understand and use the book. Starts on page 1. Part I: Overview of Personality and Career. Part I is an overview of personality and of personality types. This section also explores the relationship between personality and career. Starts on page 17. Part II: What’s Your Personality Type? Take an Assessment. This part helps you discover your personality type with a short, easy-to-complete assessment. Starts on page 23. Part III: The Best Jobs Lists: Jobs for Each of the Six Personality Types. The 141 lists in Part III show you the best jobs in terms of high salaries, fast growth, and plentiful job openings for each of the six personality types. Further lists classify the jobs according to education and training required and several other features, such as jobs with the highest percentage of women and of men and jobs with high rates of self-employment and many part-time workers. Although there are a lot of lists, they are easy to understand because they have clear titles and are organized into groupings of related lists. Starts on page 33. Part IV: Descriptions of the 50 Best Jobs for Each Personality Type. This part provides a brief but information-packed description of the 50 jobs from each personality type that met our criteria for this book. Each description contains information on earnings, projected growth, education and training required, job duties, skills, related job titles, related knowledge and courses, and many other details. The descriptions are presented in alphabetical order within each personality type. This structure makes it easy to look up a job that you’ve identified in a list from Part III and that you want to learn more about. Starts on page 129. Part V: Appendixes. Appendix A contains a list of occupations in this book and their two-letter personality codes. Appendix B lists the Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE) interest areas and work groups. Appendix C defines the skills and the types of knowledge listed in the job descriptions in Part IV. Appendix D identifies resources for further career exploration. Starts on page 451. Contents Detailed Table of Contents Part I: Overview of Personality and Career .............. 17 Why Use Personality to Choose a Career? ...........................17 Describing Personality Types...............................................18 The RIASEC Personality Types ...........................................18 Other Assessments with RIASEC Output ...........................22 Part II: What’s Your Personality Type? Take an Assessment ....................................................23 Step 1: Respond to the Statements .......................................24 Step 2: Score Your Responses ..............................................31 Step 3: Find Jobs That Suit Your Personality Type ..............31 Part III: The Best Jobs Lists: Jobs for Each of the Six Personality Types .................................33 Best Jobs Overall for Each Personality Type: Jobs with the Highest Pay, Fastest Growth, and Most Openings .....34 The 50 Best Realistic Jobs .................................................35 The 50 Best Investigative Jobs ...........................................36 The 50 Best Artistic Jobs ..................................................38 The 50 Best Social Jobs ....................................................40 The 50 Best Enterprising Jobs ...........................................41 The 50 Best Conventional Jobs .........................................43 The 20 Best-Paying Realistic Jobs .....................................45 The 20 Best-Paying Investigative Jobs ...............................46 The 20 Best-Paying Artistic Jobs .......................................47 The 20 Best-Paying Social Jobs .........................................47 The 20 Best-Paying Enterprising Jobs...............................48 The 20 Best-Paying Conventional Jobs.............................49 The 20 Fastest-Growing Realistic Jobs..............................50 The 20 Fastest-Growing Investigative Jobs ........................50 The 20 Fastest-Growing Artistic Jobs ................................51 The 20 Fastest-Growing Social Jobs ..................................52 The 20 Fastest-Growing Enterprising Jobs........................52 The 20 Fastest-Growing Conventional Jobs......................53 The 20 Realistic Jobs with the Most Openings...................54 The 20 Investigative Jobs with the Most Openings.............55 The 20 Artistic Jobs with the Most Openings.....................56 The 20 Social Jobs with the Most Openings.......................56 The 20 Enterprising Jobs with the Most Openings.............57 The 20 Conventional Jobs with the Most Openings...........58 The Best Jobs for Each Personality Type with a High Percentage of Workers Age 16–24 ....................................58 Realistic Jobs with the Highest Percentage of Workers Age 16–24....................................................................59 Best Realistic Jobs Overall Employing 10 Percent or More Workers Age 16–24 .............................................60 Investigative Jobs with the Highest Percentage iv of Workers Age 16–24 ...................................................60 ... - tailieumienphi.vn