Part III ________________________________________________________________________________
Best Jobs Overall for Each Personality
Type: Jobs with the Highest Pay, Fastest
Growth, and Most Openings
! e four sets of lists that follow are the most important lists in this book.! e fi rst set of lists
presents, for each personality type, the jobs with the highest combined scores for pay, growth,
and number of openings.! ese are very appealing lists because they represent jobs with the
very highest quantifi able measures from our labor market.! e 283 jobs in these six lists are
the ones that are described in detail in Part IV.
! e three additional sets of lists present, for each personality type, jobs with the highest
scores in each of three measures: annual earnings, projected percentage growth, and largest
number of openings.
The 50 Best Jobs for Each Personality Type
! ese are the lists that most people want to see fi rst. For each personality type, you can
see the jobs that have the highest overall combined ratings for earnings, projected growth,
and number of openings. (! e “How the Jobs in! is Book Were Selected” section in the
Introduction explains in detail how we rated jobs to assemble this list.)
Although each list covers one personality type, you’ll notice a wide variety of jobs on the list.
For example, among the top 20 Investigative jobs are some in the fi elds of high technology,
medicine, education, and business. Among the top 20 Conventional jobs are some in the
fi nancial, legal, technology, and health-care industries. We included each job’s personality
code, which indicates its primary and secondary (if any) personality types.
A look at one list will clarify how we ordered the jobs—take the Realistic list as an example.
Civil Engineers is on the top of the list because it was the occupation with the best total
score.! e second-place job, Surveyors, has somewhat better projected job growth, but it
has fewer projected job openings and considerably lower earnings, so its total score was
lower than that for Civil Engineers.! e other occupations follow in descending order based
on their total scores. Many jobs had tied scores and were simply listed one after another, so
there are often only very small or even no diff erences between the scores of jobs that are near
each other on the list. All other job lists in this book use these lists as their source. You can
fi nd descriptions for each of these jobs in Part IV, beginning on page 129.
