Do What You Are

Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type

By: Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron, Kelly Tieger

Narrated by: Kelly Tieger, Robin Reed

This bestselling guide has already helped over a million people find a fulfilling career—and now it’s your turn!

Finding a job that you’re passionate about can be incredibly difficult … but it doesn’t have to be! With Do What You Are—fully revised and updated for today’s workforce—you’ll utilize your personality type to find your ideal career path.

With the global economy’s ups and downs, the advent of astonishing new technologies, and the migration to remote and hybrid work, so much has changed in the American workplace. What hasn’t changed is the power of Personality Type to help people achieve job satisfaction.

This updated edition, featuring 30% new material, is especially useful for Gen Z graduates looking for that first job, as well as millennials and baby boomers experiencing midlife career switches, and even those looking for fulfillment in retirement.

This book will lead you through the step-by-step process of determining and verifying your Personality Type. Then you’ll learn which occupations are popular with each Type, discover helpful case studies, and get a full rundown of your own work-related strengths and weaknesses.

Focusing on your personal profile, Do What You Are uses tailored workbook exercises to help you customize your job search, get the most out of your current career, obtain leadership positions, and ensure that you achieve the best results in the shortest period of time.

Critic reviews

"This is one of the most popular career books in the world. It's easy to see why. Many have foud great help from the concept of Personality Type, and Teiger and Barron are masters at explaining this approach to career choice. Highly recommended."—Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute?

"A revolutionary way of finding the right job. Every job hunter or career changer needs this book."—Kevin Harrington, Career Services, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"Do What You Are offers an easy way to discover some extremely useful information about your Personality Type. When you are armed with this new self-awareness, the directions toward your own job and career satisfaction become clear."—William Corwin, Office of Career Services, Princeton University

Great help understanding myself

I really enjoyed this book. Very helpful direction in figuring out what work might suit me well.

I was recommended this book now I am recommending to everyone

I’m so happy I listened to this book. It helped me identify my personality type to the tea. I understand myself so much more now and why I pursue the things I do and why I am the way I am and how I can thrive in the areas fit for me. It all makes sense now.

Review

Good for finding your personality type however didn’t really feel guided for finding a potential career field that fits me