Paul D. Tieger

The use of Personality Type as a tool by Career Professionals has increased dramatically and steadily over the past ten years, as practitioners have come to recognize Type as an integral component in the career development/management process. Type has become popular for several reasons:

• It provides accurate and important insights

• Type can helpful to many different populations, including college students, mid-career life changers, people entering the work force for the first time, and workers displaced through company downsizing

• It provides a non-judgmental, value-free way for people to understand themselves and their career-related needs

• The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)© the most widely used instrument for identifying Personality Type is a serious, well respected tool

Applications

Personality Type is a valuable resource that helps:

Individuals:
• inventory their natural strengths and weaknesses
• understand what they need in a career or job for it to be satisfying
• evaluate potential careers based on realistic and relevant criteria
• capitalize on their strengths and be more effective in the job search process
• more successfully communicate their strengths and talents in job interviews

Organizations:
• use their human resources more wisely
• train managers to be effective communicators and problem solvers
• reduce unproductive interpersonal conflict
• recruit employees better suited to the jobs they will be performing
• promote retention by increasing worker satisfaction
• create more productive work teams
• develop successful mentoring relationships

Resources

On this website, we have created a special resource for Career Professionals. There you will find, among other useful information, specific cites for numerous, hard-to-find articles.

You should find the following resources particularly helpful:

Tieger, Paul D., Barron-Tieger, Barbara. (1995) Do What You Are: Discover The Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type, W. Hartford, CT. Communication Consultants.

Tieger, Paul D., Barron-Tieger, Barbara. (1995) The Personality Type Tool Kit: The Career Professional's Guide to Do What You Are, W. Hartford, CT. Communication Consultants.

Hammer, Allen L., and Kummerow, Jean M. (1996) Strong and MBTI Career Development Guide. Palo Alto, Ca,; Consulting Psychologists Press.

Macdaid, Gerald P., and McCaulley, Mary H., and Ricahrd I. Kainz (1986) Atlas of Type Tables, Gainesville, FL.; Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT).

Bridges, William. (1994). Job Shift - How to Prosper in a Workplace without Jobs. Reading, Ma.; Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

Martin, Charles, R. (1995) Looking at Type and Careers. Gainesville, Fl.; Center for Application of Psychological Types (CAPT).

Kummerow, Jean M. (1991) New Directions in Career Planning and the Workplace, Practical Strategies for Counselors, Palo Alto, Ca.; Consulting Psychologists Press.

Bio

Paul D. Tieger, M.S., is the co-author of DO WHAT YOU ARE, and THE PERSONALITY TYPE TOOL KIT. He has worked as a career counselor on a college campus, in private practice, and as an outplacement consultant for Lee Hecht Harrison and Drake Beam & Morin. He is the founder, and first director of The New England Type Institute, and the first to offer specialized training for career counselors in the use of Personality Type.

Paul has also worked as an organizational development, and jury consultant, and has co-authored three other books on Personality Type: Nurture by Nature, The Art of SpeedReading People, and Just Your Type.

Contact information: Paul D. Tieger
Communication Consultants, LLC
20 Beverly Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
Tel.: (860) 233-1396
Fax: (860) 232-1321
e-mail: paul@personalitytype.com