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Thinking About a Career Change? How Personality Assessment Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

13 July 2011 / By Truity Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on July 13, 2011

Are you thinking about a career change? Perhaps you've been working at the same job for a number of years, but you feel like you're just spinning your wheels, and you no longer enjoy what you do. It might be, too, that you've had several jobs, maybe even in different fields, but none of them have really clicked with you. In either case, you might be longing for a career in which you face each day with enthusiasm, loving what you do and committing your work hours to your life's passions. Here's how personality type assessment can help you achieve your goals.

Categories: Finding Your Career Path, Personality in the Workplace

4 Hot Careers for ENTPs

22 June 2011 / By Molly Owens Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on June 22, 2011

ENTPs are highly innovative people who pride themselves on being able to find creative, new solutions. They dislike routine and thrive on change, seeing it as a challenge. ENTPs, as the quintessential Think Outside the Box personality type, disdain convention and attempt to carve new paths. Hot careers for ENTPs allow these ingenious people to express their talents for clearly seeing big pictures when it comes to problems and coming up with leading-edge solutions.

Categories: Finding Your Career Path, ENTP

Artistic Careers for INFPs

13 June 2011 / By Molly Owens Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on June 13, 2011

INFPs, with their natural tendencies toward creative expression, are a personality type that's well-suited to artistic careers. Indeed, many INFPs who work in more traditional careers delight in such pursuits as creative writing, painting and theater as hobbies. When INFPs are able to build a career from their passions that is both personally and financially rewarding, they are fortunate and happy people indeed.

Categories: Finding Your Career Path, INFP

A Day On The Job With A Minister

09 May 2011 / By Truity Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on May 09, 2011

The College Board lists careers in the clergy as one of the ten fastest-growing careers through 2018. A career in the ministry is, though, much more than just a job. It's a way of life. Reverend Becca Clark, the pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Montpelier, Vermont, graciously consented to discuss what a day on the job with a minister is like.

4 Hot Careers for INTPs

03 May 2011 / By Truity Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on May 03, 2011

INTPs are driven by a deep yearning to understand systems and what makes them work. They're analytical people who prize knowledge and love to come up with theories as to how systems can best operate. They are the masters of the Thought Experiment. While they seem to live very much in their minds, they get excited about innovation, devising theories about how things work, and testing their ideas. Hot careers for INTPs are those that put their talent for creative problem-solving to good use.

Categories: Finding Your Career Path, INTP

Teaching Careers Off the Beaten Path

28 April 2011 / By Truity Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on April 28, 2011

According to the College Board, teaching careers will be some of the hottest careers for college graduates through 2018. Teachers of all kinds – elementary school, postsecondary school – will be in great demand throughout our current decade. There are also teaching careers off the beaten path which you might not have considered. If you're interested in being a teacher but you'd like to go about it in a different way, one of these careers might be just right for you.

Category: Finding Your Career Path

Is Graduate School Right For You?

20 April 2011 / By Truity Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on April 20, 2011

Whether you're a recent college graduate or you're considering the possibility of a career change, you might be wondering, is graduate school right for you? Graduate school isn't a path to choose lightly, without reflection. Earning a post-graduate degree, whether a Masters degree, Doctoral degree or a professional degree, requires tremendous commitments of time, energy and money, and you want to be sure you're putting these resources to the best possible use for your career path.

You've Graduated From College. Now What?

18 April 2011 / By Truity Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on April 18, 2011

If you're a traditional college student, you've been in school for sixteen years straight. If you're a non-traditional student, you've been attending college for four years. In either case, earning your Bachelor's degree has been your goal. And you've graduated from college. Now what? Perhaps the degree will be your first step into the career of your dreams, or perhaps it's part of your ticket to graduate school. It might be the case, however, that you're not sure. You might have majored in something you loved and enjoyed but aren't sure how it translates into a career, or given today's tight job market, you're undecided as to which way you should go. Graduation is a milestone. You've earned your accolades. And now, it's time to prepare for change, in whatever form it takes.

Category: Finding Your Career Path

4 Hot Careers for ESTPs

13 April 2011 / By Truity Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on April 13, 2011

ESTPs are persuasive, action-oriented people who love nothing more than to get things done. They thrive on challenge and are able to handle stressful situations with aplomb. ETSPs are the quintessential “just the facts” personality type. They want to get the facts on a situation so that they can take action as quickly as possible to mitigate or improve it. They're logical, quick on their feet and nimble in their minds. Hot careers for ESTPs let these dynamic people show others what they can do.

Categories: Finding Your Career Path, ESTP

4 Hot Careers for INFPs

11 April 2011 / By Truity Clinically Reviewed by Steven Melendy, PsyD. on April 11, 2011

INFPs are individualistic, creative thinkers who place high value on originality. They long to make a positive difference in the world, and as independent-spirited Healers, they want to do it on their terms. They focus on potential, possibility and on the good in people and situations. Hot careers for INFPs let these ethical and iconoclastic people use their considerable creative talents to bring out the best in themselves and others.

Categories: Finding Your Career Path, INFP

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