Choosing a job or career is one of the most important things that we do, and yet many of us are ill prepared to do so. There are two main reasons for this: First, we lack awareness of ourselves, our needs and ambitions, and; second, we seek advice from others who are more concerned with our security needs (money, stability, familiarity) than in the fulfilment of our potential. We all want to be good at choosing paths for ourselves. With so many jobs and careers to choose from, it can be overwhelming to narrow it down to a handful. In fact, Economist Neil Howe says that only 5% of people pick the right job or career on the first try. That’s because we tend to limit ourselves and don’t even let ourselves know what we really aspire to. We know that even though it will be much more rewarding, it would be more of a risk and we don’t go for it. Whether you’re deciding to look for your first job or a possible career change, understanding your personality type, brain organization and psychological/emotional needs takes away much of the risk that comes when we think a career sounds good until we are actually immersed in the experience of it. Maximizing Your Career Potential Maximizing Your Career Potential - Brain Style of Each of the 16 Types For Use with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator & Striving Styles Personality System Now Available on Amazon

1. Practical Insight
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5 Musts When
Looking for a
Career
 Do what you are
interested in
 Build awareness of
your interests,
passion and
vocation
 Understand the
need satis iers of
your personality
 Know what careers
will frustrate your
needs
 Work environment
matters
Maximizing Your Career Potential
5 Things You MUST Do When
Selecting a Career
Choosing a job or career is one of the most important things that we do, and yet
many of us are ill prepared to do so. There are two main reasons for this: First,
we lack awareness of ourselves, our needs and ambitions, and; second, we seek
advice from others who are more concerned with our security needs (money,
stability, familiarity) than in the fulfilment of our potential.
We all want to be good at choosing paths for ourselves. With so many jobs and
careers to choose from, it can be overwhelming to narrow it down to a handful.
In fact, Economist Neil Howe says that only 5% of people pick the right job or
career on the first try. That’s because we tend to limit ourselves and don’t even
let ourselves know what we really aspire to. We know that even though it will
be much more rewarding, it would be more of a risk and we don’t go for it.
Whether you’re deciding to look for your first job or a possible career change,
understanding your personality type, brain organization and psychological/
emotional needs takes away much of the risk that comes when we think a career
sounds good until we are actually immersed in the experience of it.
When you select a career, there are s a lot of objective factors to consider. Most
articles about what to do when selecting a career talk about them. What doesn’t
get talked about as much is whether the career will meet your emotional needs,
or if is includes the elements necessary for you to develop and fulfil your
potential. We all want to be successful, and we can do lots of things that give us
the appearance of success – i.e. status, money, job security. But these things have
nothing to do with our experience, how we feel in our career, and whether it is
satisfying our needs.
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2. How to Find Meaning
in a Career
Seeking meaning in our lives is often a
result of having already met our basic
physical needs of food, shelter, and
comfort. We strive to pursue and
nurture relationships, so we can share
and experience happiness and express
love through words and actions to other
people. We work for inancial
independence, so we can do more of
what we enjoy. We might also assist
others to alleviate suffering in their life
through volunteering or charity work.
Striving to achieve our potential
becomes our priority because it gives
meaning and ful illment to our life.
Most importantly, we seek a career that
will provide us with more than just a
paycheck. It has to be meaningful; a
place where we can express ourselves,
our talents and abilities and has the
opportunity to develop our potential.
The following are the main things we
need to know in order to consciously
select a career where we are most likely
to thrive.
1. DO WHAT YOU ARE
INTERESTED IN
In our society, we have to choose our
career long before our brain has even
inished developing. During this time, we
are still struggling to know our identity
and what we need to be happy. Is it any
wonder we look to others for advice and
approval about what we should do for a
career? Often pressure is put on us to
choose one that our parents think will
help us to be successful.
Parents can act like they know which
career is right for you better than you do,
rather than helping you uncover what
your vocation or potential is calling on
you to do. They might ridicule what you
are interested in, calling it “not a real
job” or “a hobby.” They might use
emotional tactics to make you feel guilty
or withdraw their support and approval.
It’s true you might feel guilty because
your parents are disappointed that you
don’t chose the same occupation they
are in. The same might be true of friends
who want you to work in a similar ield
to them so that you will maintain a
connection with them and don’t drift
apart.
In the long run, you need to choose a
career that supports your development
and the achievement of your potential.
Pleasing others will lead to unhappiness
and the need to change careers down the
road. For those people reading this that
have struggled in careers that aren’t
satisfying to them, it’s time to remember
your potential and the emotional needs
you must meet for you to be truly
satis ied in a career.
2. BUILD AWARENESS OF YOUR
INTERESTS, PASSION AND
VOCATION
Maybe you don't feel passionate about
any speci ic career, or you love multiple
areas and can't decide on just one. It’s
frustrating when you can’t narrow it
down or make a choice that feels right to
you. Assessing careers through the lens
of your personality type and needs helps
you focus on choose a career from the
inside out. Stop thinking about inding
something that you love, focus on
knowing your needs, vocation or passion
and building a roadmap to get there.
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3. Most people don’t know that we have 4
mental functions in our brain which
determine the type of career we are
most likely to ind meaning and
satisfaction in. Whether we know it or
not, we are drawn to work in ields that
meet our predominant emotional needs.
These needs are associated with the
mental functions and are determined by
personality assessments that determine
the functions we prefer and are hard‐
wired to use.
When we don’t know how our brain is
organized, what motivates us, what
drives our behavior, and what is
uniquely satisfying to us, it’s almost
impossible to narrow the ield. This is
why using the Striving Styles®
Personality Assessment (SSPS®) is so
critical to understanding the satis iers
and dissatis iers of your Striving
Style. While you can use the Myers‐
Briggs Type Indicator® to determine
your Personality Type, it’s only with
the SSPS that you can understand the
mechanics of the mind and
emotional drivers of behavior.
The SSPS helps you understand your
needs, motivation, and your career
style. It goes a long way in
minimizing risk in the career
selection process, and helps you seek
jobs and careers where you are most
likely to thrive.
3. UNDERSTAND THE NEED
SATISFIERS OF YOUR
PERSONALITY
Need Satis iers are the
activities and roles at work
and in your career, that meet
the predominant need of
your Personality Type. In
order for you to self‐actualize
and to reach your full
potential in your career,
these satis iers must be
present, and, ideally, they
should make up the greatest
part of your day. Without the
presence of these satis iers of
your predominant need, you
cannot utilize the strengths
of the predominant brain function of
your Personality Type. You may achieve
a certain degree of success, adapting to
the needs of your role, and working with
the other brain functions. However, it
will always take you more effort and
energy to do your work, and to maintain
your forward and upward movement.
You will struggle to maintain your
momentum, and you are likely to ind
yourself unsatis ied in your work, easily
stressed, lacking in engagement, or
simply bored.
If you are currently in a career that you
are not happy with, you may want to
review the activities of your work to see
how many of these need satis iers are
present. With the presence of these need
satis iers, you will ind your work
energizing, engaging and enlivening.
Your work will be an enjoyable and
satisfying part of your life, and it will
facilitate your development towards
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4. your greater potential and becoming
who you are meant to be in your career.
4. KNOW WHAT CAREERS WILL
FRUSTRATE YOUR NEEDS
Need dissatis iers are the activities and
jobs at work and in your career, that
frustrate or thwart the predominant
need of the Personality Type. You will
ind it very dif icult to reach your
potential in the presence of some or all
of your need dissatis iers. As with the
absence of satis iers, with the presence
of dissatis iers, you may achieve a
certain degree of success, but it will
always take you more effort and energy
to do your work, and to maintain your
forward and upward movement.
The ongoing presence of need
dissatis iers means that your energy will
be directed toward getting your need
met rather than doing your work. You
are likely to ind yourself unsatis ied in
your work, easily stressed, frustrated,
apathetic about your work, or close to
being burned out. You are also more
likely to engage in non‐productive and
self‐protective behaviors as well, getting
your predominant need met in whatever
way you can, rather than working
towards your career goals.
If you are currently in a career that you
are not happy with, you may want to
review the activities of your work to see
how many of these need dissatis iers are
present. If there are some or many of
these, you should contemplate making a
change to work that includes most, if not
all, of the career satis iers, and puts you
on the career path towards your greater
potential and becoming who you are
meant to be in your career.
5. WORK ENVIRONMENT MATTERS
Your career may have a lot of need
satis iers, but the work environment
doesn’t. For example, you may have
found the dream job for your career in
social media but it’s an open‐concept
of ice, and you can’t deal with the
amount of noise and interruptions. Or,
you like the security of the “chain‐of‐
command” leadership but the business
involves decision‐making by consensus.
It’s important to understand both how
the elements of a career will satisfy your
predominant need, and what you should
look for when choosing a line of work.
Make sure that the environment you
choose to work in will support getting
that predominant need satis ied on an
on‐going basis. When doing your search
for a place of employment, spend plenty
of time investigating the nature of the
work environment, its organization,
and its company culture to ensure it has
minimal barriers to satisfying your
need.
Other considerations are also
important when choosing a career. For
example, if you do not naturally enjoy
change, but are interested in a career
that might involve frequent relocation
due to work availability, it may not be
realistic for you to pursue such a career.
View your career as not simply “getting a
job,” but rather, as choosing an
occupation that will take up a great part
of your life and, therefore, must bring
you ful illment on the road to living out
your highest potential. When looking at
careers, think about what you enjoy
doing, because if your work is enjoyable,
it will also be more ful illing and
motivating to you. Think about what you
want to achieve, not what others want
for you.
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that you are meant to have with these
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Using the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator or
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Similarly, just because a career seems
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2. MAKE A CAREER PLAN
As with most things, your career will
bene it if you have goals and a plan for it.
Maybe you want to be a bartender, but
can’t get hired because you have no
experience. You don’t want to be a food
server, so you take the entry level job of
busing tables and stocking. Once you’ve
worked your way up to bartender and
have done it for a while, you look for
upscale restaurants where you can
increase your income and converse with
a different type of clientele. You may
learn that your passion is for designer
drinks and love teaching others to make
it. Or maybe, you want to transition from
bartending to opening your own bar.
How are you going to get there?—Map
out where you want to go, with concrete
milestones. See your career as a set of
stepping stones, not a linear path.
There are aspects of planning for our
careers that we all have dif iculty with.
Knowing your Striving Style and
Personality Type provides insight into
how to plan your career, given the
general tendencies of your Personality
Type. By creating a roadmap for your
development, you will become aware of
some of your characteristics that might
get in the way of you achieving your
potential.
For example, you may want to start at
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aren’t hired for your potential.
Conversely, you may undervalue your
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something that doesn’t offer you a career
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aware of your own resistance to the
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address the areas that may be your
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for the career you want are speci ic to
each of the types. For example, if you are
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to get rather than identifying what it is
you actually want. If you are a self‐
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