Monday, July 24, 2006

Mazzante Fessler News Articles - What's the Best Job for Your Personality?

Lou Mazzante and Lee Fessler News Articles - Are you outgoing and outdoorsy? How about mild-mannered and detail-oriented?

People's personalities can play a major role in their career choices. For example, someone who prefers being active and working in the sunshine might be miserable in a sedentary desk job. Likewise, people who prefer working alone might not excel in a team environment.

Knowing this, Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D.s, examined the relationship between personality and careers in their book '50 Best Jobs for Your Personality'. They began with looking at six personality types created in the 1950s by career guidance researcher John Holland.

According to the researchers, the following jobs emerged as the top job for each personality type:

1. Type One: Realistic
According to Farr and Shatkin's book, realistic personalities like work that includes hands-on problems and solutions. They enjoy outdoor work, including working with plants, animals, wood, tools and machinery. Many realistic personalities do not enjoy handling a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Top Jobs: Highway Patrol Pilots -- Pilot airplanes to maintain order, respond to emergencies, and enforce traffic and criminal laws. Annual earnings: $44,020 Expected growth: 24.7 percent Annual job openings: 67,000

2. Type Two: Investigative
Investigative personalities prefer ideas and thinking over physical activity. They like to search for facts and figures and solve problems mentally, preferring these types of tasks over persuading or leading people.

Top Job: Engineering teachers, postsecondary -- Teach the physical laws and principles of engineering for the development of machines, materials, instruments, processes and services. Annual earnings: $69,700 Expected growth: 38.1 percent Annual openings: 216,000

3. Type Three: Artistic
Artistic personalities like working with forms, designs and patterns. They like self-expression in their work and prefer less-structured settings without following a clear set of rules. Here, again, postsecondary teaching jobs dominate the best-jobs list.
Top Job: Art, drama and music teachers, postsecondary -- Teach courses in drama, music and the arts beyond the high school level. Annual earnings: $47,980 Expected growth: 38.1 percent Annual openings: 216,000

4. Type Four: Social
Social personalities like working, communicating and teaching people. They like to assist others and promote learning and personal development, preferring to communicate over working with objects, machines or data.

Top Job: Economics teachers, postsecondary -- Teach courses in economics and how society distributes scarce resources such as land, labor, raw materials and machinery. Annual earnings: $64,950 Expected growth: 31.8 percent Annual opening: 216,000

5. Type Five: Enterprising
Enterprising personalities like to start up and carry out projects, especially business ventures. They like to lead people and make decisions, and prefer action over extensive thought.

Top Job: Sales managers -- Direct the actual distribution or movement of a product or service to the customer. Annual earnings: $80,470 Expected growth: 30.5 percent Annual openings: 54,000

6. Type Six: Conventional
Conventional personalities prefer work activities with set rules and procedures. They prefer working with details and data over working with ideas. They like precise standards and having a clear line of authority to follow.

Top Job: Accountants -- Analyze financial information and prepare reports to determine or maintain record of assets, liabilities or other financial activities within an organization. Annual earnings: $49,060 Expected growth: 19.5 percent Annual openings: 119,000

Source: Cnn.com

About Lou Mazzante and Lee Fessler: Lou and Jean Mazzante lead MIMS. Lou and Jean Mazzante attribute their entrepreneurial success to hard work and being able to learn business proven leadership principles and mentorship. Lee and Linda Fessler lead Fessler International. Lee and Linda have created many successful business ventures.