It Takes All Types: The Guide for Finding a Job, Changing Careers, and Understanding Yourself at Work

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Summary: Type Comes Down to Earth!
Review: The market for personality type books is crowded, with titles about Myers-Briggs, Keirsey, True Colors, and a number of other similiar systems for helping readers locate themselves on the spectrum of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional styles. Arnopp's book ranks among the best by my standards -- he narrows the scope of his advice to a particular domain, careers, and links observations about type to other sources of information about that same domain.

What I especially like about the book is that it offers a liberating insight that more "upbeat" books sometimes hide: Economic factors like supply and demand influence what jobs are available, how much they pay, and how hard it may be to establish oneself in a particular occupation.

Overall, this book offers support for your understanding and accepting yourself, grounded in a realistic sense of the options for and obstacles to making your way in the world.

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Summary: Two books in one
Review: This book was really interesting. I am not looking for work, but I am really interested in personality types and have read all the Kiersey books and Tieger books (Please Understand Me, Do What You Are, Nature By Nurture) and others. I would say that It Takes All Types combines a good career manual with a understanding of personality. I will definitely give this to my kids to read when they are in high school. Even as an introduction to type and temperament, the career angle should get them into it. Especially seeing the salaries and experience require, which should help them want to stay in school and go to college!

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Summary: I lost my job and this book gave me hope
Review: This is a different kind of career book. The approach is to help readers discover what type of person they are and then match those personality traits with a variety of occupations. The author goes into detail about selected fields, and drills down into specific jobs. He takes a real-world stand by including important details, like how much actual jobs pay to start, and what one might expect to eventually make.

The personality information is based on established tests that have been used for years, and I found the personality type stuff to be amazingly accurate and insightful (I am an INTJ). Trying to find work that is meaningful to me is my goal every day now, and this book has offered me hope that I will finally be looking in the right field, and eventually find "The Job."

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Summary: This book is so helpful!
Review: This is such a great book for those of us who want to get some really practical advice for a career path to choose that will actually bring us happiness as well as money. I only wish that I had this book in high school or college because I feel like I have wasted so much time on jobs that were unfullfilling, simply because I did not see the relationship between personality type and career. The lists of jobs in this book and the explanations of the personality types are so comprehensive and really compelling. I think this book would be great for anyone who is looking to find a career path for their life (e.g. college students, people looking for work), but I'd buy it just for the lists of jobs in it that are really eye opening and horizon broadening.