20110221 A Different Approach to Choosing a Career (1)

A Different Approach to Choosing a Career

Helping teens find a career path that suits them

As students near the end of high school, many for the first time start thinking seriously about what they want to do when they grow up and how they plan to get there. And, more often than not, the answer is a nervous shrug: no idea. The challenge is to get students – and parents – to think beyond external rewards, like salary and prestige, so they explore careers that are fulfilling on a deeper level. Because a teen's interests and skills are often transient and changing, a more useful approach to identifying fitting career paths is to focus on the teen's personality, said Paul Tieger, an expert in personality typing and co-author of Do What You Are...

"If you know your personality type, you have an extraordinary advantage in finding something satisfying," said Tieger, the creator of mypersonaljobcoach. com. On Tieger's website, people take a personality assessment that evaluates how they interact with others, make decisions and take in information. It classifies them as one of 16 personality types based on the Myers-briggs model. Thie model measures four aspects of personality: extrovert or introvert: sensor or intuitive: thinking or feeling; judging or perceiving.








trans- 超越/通過
transient adj. 短暫的/三分鐘熱度的/稍縱即逝的
=> last only a short period of time
eg: His transient fame made him very proud and he lost a lot of friends.
=> 他本身的名氣讓他變得非常驕傲失去了許多朋友
eg: Transient workers move from state to state to help with the different harvests.
=> 這些臨時工到各州去幫忙不同農家的採收

ex- 向外的
in- 向內的
extrovert n. 外向的人
=> someone who enjoy being with people
introvert n. 內向的人
=> someon who is shy
eg: Sally is an extrovert. She hardly stays at home. On the contrary, her sister Georgia is an introvert.
=> Shally 非常外向，她幾乎很少待在家裡，相反的她的妹妹卻非常內向

-ceive 拿取
perceive v. 感知/察覺到
eg: I perceived someone walking toward me in the darkness.
=> 黑暗中我可以感覺到有人朝著我走過來
eg: Computer games are often perceived as bad influences on children.
=> 電腦遊戲一般被認定對兒童有不良的影響


shrug n. 聳肩

prestige n. 名聲
=> respect/admiration

assessment n. 評量

Myers-briggs model 邁爾斯，布里格斯模型

intuitive adj. 直覺的/有直覺力的
=> make decision based on your emotions and feelings rather than proves


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personality n. 個性/人格
eg: personality test人格測驗

personality n. 人物或名人
eg: sport personality 有名的運動家
eg: TV personality 電視名人/名嘴
eg: radio personality 廣播名人/電台的節目主持人

personality n. 一個場所的特質
eg: The room has a lot of personality.
=> 一個很有特色的室內設計