____ Introduction
that the one-line “Education Required” statement in the Part IV job descriptions gives a
complete picture of how best to prepare for the job. If you’re considering the job seriously,
you need to investigate this topic in greater detail. Consider using some of the resources
listed in Appendix D for further career exploration.Other Job Characteristics
Like the fi gures for earnings, some of the other fi gures used to create the lists of jobs in this
book are shared by more than one job title. Usually this is the case for occupations that are
so small that BLS does not release separate statistics for them. For example, the occupation
Sound Engineering Technicians has a total workforce of only about 16,000 workers, so BLS
does not report a specifi c fi gure for the percentage of women workers. In this case, we had
to use the fi gure that BLS reports for a group of occupations it calls Broadcast and Sound
Engineering Technicians and Radio Operators. We relied on this same fi gure for four other
jobs: Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Motion Picture; Film and Video Editors;
Audio and Video Equipment Technicians; and Broadcast Technicians. You may notice
similar fi gure-sharing among related jobs where we list the percentages of workers in specifi c
age brackets.Information in the Job Descriptions
We used a variety of government and other sources to compile the job descriptions
we provide in Part IV. Details on these various sources are mentioned later in this
introduction in the section “Part IV: Descriptions of the 50 Best Jobs for Each Personality
Ty p e .”How This Book Is Organized
! e information in this book moves from the general to the highly specifi c. It starts by
explaining how personality relates to career choice and presents a widely used model for
making that connection. An assessment helps you focus on your dominant personality
type (or types), and then you can consult a wealth of lists that itemize the best jobs for your
personality type.! ese lists let you look at the jobs from several diff erent perspectives—for
example, which jobs pay the best, which jobs employ the most young people, and which jobs
require an associate’s degree for entry. Finally, you can get highly detailed information about
any of these career choices in the fact-packed job descriptions that make up the last part of
the book.Part I. Overview of Personality and Career
Part I is an overview of how personality relates to careers—the basic theory, plus the six
personality types that were originally described by John Holland and have since become