Do What You Are: Discover the
Perfect Career for You Through the
Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron

    DO WHAT YOU ARE by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron
    Category:  Non-Fiction
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  3/21/07
    Publisher:  Little, Brown
    Reviewed by:  Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Choosing a career based on personality type is not a new concept; in fact, the first edition of DO WHAT YOU
    ARE was released in 1992 (and I can actually remember reading it when I was a junior in high school). In this, the
    fourth edition, hopefully even more teens will be exposed to this great resource.

    The authors, both experts in personality type and career development, put forth the idea that choosing a career path
    based on your individual personality will be beneficial to your success. For those worried that discovering your
    personality type is a difficult process, don’t despair, because the authors make it quite easy.

    There are four dimensions to personality type:

    Whether you are extroverted or introverted.
    Whether you notice things by sensing or intuition.
    Whether you make decisions by thinking or feeling.
    Whether you prefer to live by judging or perceiving.

    Once you’ve discovered the answer to each of these four questions, you’ll be able to discover which of the sixteen
    possible personality types you fall into. Once you do, you can quickly skip to the relevant section in the book.

    In my case, my personality is ESTJ – or extroverted, sensing, thinking, judging. According to the authors of DO
    WHAT YOU ARE, my strengths lie in organization, being objective, working alone, and being a good decision
    maker. My weaknesses are also outlined, and include impatience with those who don’t follow procedures, a
    tendency to overrun people, and difficulty listening to opposing viewpoints. Some suggestions for careers, based on
    my personality type, are as a teacher, government employee, sales, supervisor, or a manager.

    Of course the above is not a full list of the strengths, weaknesses, or recommended career choices for those whose
    personality type is ESTJ – the above is merely a sampling. But I can say with truth that DO WHAT YOU ARE can
    be a great resource for those beginning their search for a career choice. I can agree that ESTJ is definitely my
    personality type (faults and all!) and have no doubt that this book has the power to help everyone looking to
    correctly match their strengths to the perfect career.