50 Best Jobs for Your Personality

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Detailed Table of Contents

Part I: Overview of Personality and Career .............. 17

Why Use Personality to Choose a Career? ........................... 17

Describing Personality Types............................................... 18

! e 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! at 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

! e 50 Best Realistic Jobs ................................................. 35

! e 50 Best Investigative Jobs ........................................... 36

! e 50 Best Artistic Jobs .................................................. 38

! e 50 Best Social Jobs .................................................... 40

! e 50 Best Enterprising Jobs ........................................... 41

! e 50 Best Conventional Jobs ......................................... 43

! e 20 Best-Paying Realistic Jobs ..................................... 45

! e 20 Best-Paying Investigative Jobs ............................... 46

! e 20 Best-Paying Artistic Jobs ....................................... 47

! e 20 Best-Paying Social Jobs ......................................... 47

! e 20 Best-Paying Enterprising Jobs ............................... 48

! e 20 Best-Paying Conventional Jobs ............................. 49

! e 20 Fastest-Growing Realistic Jobs .............................. 50

! e 20 Fastest-Growing Investigative Jobs ........................ 50

! e 20 Fastest-Growing Artistic Jobs ................................ 51

! e 20 Fastest-Growing Social Jobs .................................. 52

! e 20 Fastest-Growing Enterprising Jobs ........................ 52

! e 20 Fastest-Growing Conventional Jobs ...................... 53

! e 20 Realistic Jobs with the Most Openings ................... 54

! e 20 Investigative Jobs with the Most Openings ............. 55

! e 20 Artistic Jobs with the Most Openings..................... 56

! e 20 Social Jobs with the Most Openings....................... 56

! e 20 Enterprising Jobs with the Most Openings ............. 57

! e 20 Conventional Jobs with the Most Openings ........... 58

! e 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

of Workers Age 16–24 ................................................... 60

Table of Contents

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.! is section also explores the relationship
between personality and career. Starts on page 17.
Part II: What’s Your Personality Type? Take
an Assessment.! is part helps you discover your
personality type with a short, easy-to-complete
assessment. Starts on page 23.
Part III:! e Best Jobs Lists: Jobs for Each of
the Six Personality Types.! e 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.! is 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.
! e descriptions are presented in alphabetical order
within each personality type.! is structure makes
it easy to look up a job that you’ve identifi ed 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 defi nes the skills and the
types of knowledge listed in the job descriptions in
Part IV. Appendix D identifi es resources for further
career exploration. Starts on page 451.