Do What You Are by Paul D. Tieger

Author:Paul D. Tieger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PSY000000, BUS012000, BUS037020, PSY023000
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2018-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

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INTP Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving

“Ingenious Problem Solvers”

Profile 1: Jaye

“There’s something very satisfying about running a business that is completely self-supporting.”

Forty-one-year-old Jaye prefers the title career consultant to the more popular career counselor, primarily because she has created a job and a business that are more dynamic and varied than the average counselor’s day of one-on-one client sessions. Jaye thinks of her role as more of an architect, helping to develop creative strategies using logical and efficient processes to meet her clients’ goals. And after ten years her thriving practice is completely referral-based, a source of pride and great satisfaction.

Jaye spends about 75 percent of her time providing individual career counseling to adult job changers aged thirty to sixty. Most are dissatisfied with their work or are interested in exploring what else they might do, having been typically “sucked into a job without any informed career planning.” Jaye provides a structured system of information gathering and testing. She helps her clients identify their personality type, skills, values, and interests to end up with what she calls the “recipe” with potential for long-term success. Next she helps her clients “package” themselves, beginning with the development of a résumé. She teaches her clients how to have effective interviews, use a network, and become educated about all the possibilities in the market. Jaye sees interviewing as a life skill, one that empowers you to get access to whatever information you need and not have to wait for someone else to provide it. During this phase, Jaye becomes more than a teacher; “I act as coach, supporter, adviser, evaluator, cheerleader, and kicker-in-the-pants.” She describes this part of the process as a “treasure hunt.” Her clients join a “research club” of other “hunters” to share information, contacts, and ideas, and offer support and validation to one another. Jaye meets with her clients throughout this process and also helps when the time comes to consider a job offer, negotiate a salary and benefits package, and adjust to the new job.

It’s a process-lover’s dream. Jaye admits that besides being independent and calling her own shots, her favorite part of her work involves brainstorming. That’s the time when she and her client look for patterns and find connections between what the client has enjoyed and succeeded at in the past and what might be satisfying for his or her future. It’s that creative problem solving and the application of a logical and expedient strategy that Jaye finds most energizing, followed closely by the time she spends working alone, creating new materials and “letting the ideas flow.” She structures her schedule to keep each Friday free of appointments so she can work independently and not be interrupted or pressured.

Jaye spends the remaining 25 percent of her time consulting for small businesses in the areas of analyzing management teams, enhancing communication and problem solving, and performing employment-needs analysis. She has successfully helped start nine new businesses, and all but one are still thriving.

Looking back on her work history, Jaye has always been a teacher, beginning with her high school days as a swimming instructor and camp counselor.

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