Career Search Tips & Advice

Career Search Tips & Advice

Myers Briggs and the Job Search: How Your Type Can Help You Land the Perfect Job

Job search is a stressful experience for those who seek new employment, as well as those who have been recently laid-off. There are so many book blogs in the market which provide job search advice and suggestions. While this advice can be helpful, the most effective job search will take account of your unique personality traits and talents. The strategy of personal branding has become ever more popular in job search circles and a significant aspect of branding is how you can create an impression which will set you apart from other job seekers.

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Coping with the “In Between” Phase of Job Transition and Unemployment: Part II

The stress of losing a job can be quickly overshadowed by the pressure of finding a new one. On average it can take anywhere from one to five months to successfully complete the search for a new job. But don’t let this discourage you. With a good handle on task management and effective prioritizing, it is very possible to compress your job search. The beginning stage of the search must begin with a positive outlook and hopeful attitude, because you will more assuredly be the next new hire if you are seen as someone who exhibits resiliency in the face of adversity.

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Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to Manage Your Career Change

Whether your interest in a job change has been prompted by dissatisfaction with your current role or rumors of impending layoffs, the prospect of identifying and jumping into a different career can definitely feel overwhelming. However, this is a challenge that most professionals will face at least once in their working lives – data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that American workers change jobs an average of seven times over the course of their careers.

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How to Create a Professional Social Networking Profile for Your Job Search

Social media is fast becoming a popular tool for job search. Sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn are becoming a primary means for people to connect with one another, not only professionally but socially as well. In this day and age, families and friends often reside great distances from one another and these sites provide a great way to stay in touch.

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Coping with the “In Between” Phase of Job Transition and Unemployment: Part I

The instability of our current economy has created a new wave of unemployment, budget cuts, layoffs and an endangerment to the term, “job security”. With employment becoming more of a privilege then a right, there is an increase in stress both in the work place and for those displaced from their jobs and their careers. Despite the feeling of hopelessness that losing a job can generate, it is very possible to learn how to manage this stress and to face the adversity of unemployment with a positive attitude. Choosing to learn some basic techniques and utilize them, can not only positively affect your stress level, but it can create a more likely scenario to find future employment.

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Career Tests for Teens: How the Newest Assessments Can Help Your Child Choose the Perfect Career

Most of us remember a day in our teens when our high school guidance counselor called us in for career counseling. She scrutinized and evaluated us, gave us tests with cryptic questions, and in the end proclaimed with some certainty that our career destiny was to become a fireman—or a stonemason, or a math teacher, or something equally mysterious. As baffling as this process was, if you’re the parent to teenagers, you probably find yourself wishing you could give them such definite career advice.

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8 Reasons You Hate Your Job: Stress, Burnout and Your Myers Briggs Personality Type

Do you make decent money, get your work done, and feel at a loss to pinpoint anything really wrong with your job—but still dread going to work each day? If it’s not as simple as a tyrant boss, meager wages, or long days in the salt mine, how can you explain your stress and frustration with your job?

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Q&A: How can the Myers Briggs test help me choose a career?

Q. Since I graduated from college a few years ago, I've been working in a boring job I don't enjoy. I don't really know where to begin in looking for a new job, but a friend told me that taking the Myers Briggs Type Indicator test could help me find a job I'll like. How do you recommend using this test for finding a career?

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Myers Briggs Types of Software Engineers

In a survey of Brazilian software engineering students, Introverted personality types were found to dominate heavily. This should be no surprise to anyone familiar with Myers-Briggs type; Introverts are more likely to enjoy careers that allow them to work independently, keep a low profile, and accomplish projects on their own. Types of ISFP, INTP, and ESTP were over-represented among the population of software engineers.

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