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What Career Personality Type Are You?
By Stephen Bucaro
As I write this the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is announcing the largest mass
layoffs of workers in history. Employers dumped 299,388 workers in a single month. The
unemployment rate is 8.5 percent and the number of unemployed is 13.2 million. Under these
conditions many people are searching for career information. I performed an online search
for career information and after several hours had to give up because there's little
useful career information available.
The first thing that you need to consider when investigating a career is what type of
work you're compatible with. I found hundreds of career personality and career aptitude
tests, many of them very complicated, convoluted, and entirely worthless in my opinion.
What credentials make my opinion valid?
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When I work with my hands, I have to deal with reality and as I always say, "reality sucks".
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I was the manager of an electronics engineering department for many years. I worked
with people at all levels. I worked with technicians who had high school diplomas. I
worked with development engineers who had bachelors and masters degrees. I worked with
research engineers who had doctorate degrees. I'm very familiar with workers career
personality types.
Although there are an infinite number of worker personality types, I found that there
are only four personality types that apply to which career an individual is compatible
with. Listed below are the four types.
• People who like to work with their hands
• People who like to work with people
• People who like to work with symbols
• People who are artistic
People who like to work with their hands are great craftsmen. They love to work with
tools and materials and they take great pride in their work.
To people who like to work with people, the actual job task just provides a reason to
get together with other people. Because of the many contacts they make, this type of
worker usually knows how to get things done within an organization.
When I say "people who work with symbols" what I'm talking about is writing, where
strings of characters represent information. I'm talking about mathematics, where digits
and operational characters represent physical properties.
People who are artistic fearlessly combine shapes, colors, textures, and sounds in ways
that produce an emotional result.
Each one of these personality types are compatible with specific occupations. For
example, people who like to work with their hands will be most successful in construction
or mechanical occupations. They also make great horticulturists, surgeons, or any career
that requires manual dexterity.
People who like to work with people will be successful in sales, politics, teaching,
psychology, coaching, management, police work, or any career that requires personal interaction.
People who like to work with symbols will be successful writers, mathematicians, and
programmers. People who are artistic will be successful in advertising and design occupations.
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