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What Your Myers- Briggs Personality Type Means For Your Career
I’ve recently become fascinated with Myers-Briggs personality types and how much insight these distinctions in personalities can reveal. Not only can knowing your own personality type help you understand your own behaviors and how you interact with others, it can provide you with a lot of insight into your professional life and how to find a career that best aligns with your preferences. As a career coach, I’ve found it to be a helpful tool for many of my clients. I wrote a short article about Myers-Briggs personality types previously, but I felt the topic was worthy of a deeper dive …
5 Things To Immediately Remove From Your LinkedIn Profile
As a career coach, I must admit: LinkedIn is one of my favorite job hunting and professional tools.
The community, the connections, the articles, and the opportunities are endless. In fact, I have sat around and talked about LinkedIn over a sunset with a friend. But I know that not everyone feels the same way.
If you want to make a job transition, improve your brand or uplevel your professional life I have boiled it down to five things you need to remove or update on your LinkedIn profile right now …
Six Reasons Why Your College Major Doesn’t Matter
“So, what’s it going to be?”
My advisor looked at me expectantly, as if I was simply at a McDonald’s needing to make the simple choice between a BigMac or a Quarter Pounder.
“Let’s run through the options,” she continued. “Government is a solid choice if you’re thinking about law school. English would be a smart decision if you’re interested in publishing or teaching. Communications is useful in most fields…”
“Women’s studies?” I ventured, hoping she would run off a list of career doors …
5 Career Paths That Are Perfect For Introverts
“Everyone shines. Given the right type of lighting.”- Susan Cain
You walk into a networking event, or a team meeting and head straight to the back row. From here, you can observe everything uninterrupted. And when called upon, you cringe inside before you smile and speak.
If this sounds close to home, you are likely
introverted.
Introverts make up 16-50% of the population and find energy from being alone. You consider yourself more of a wallflower than a social butterfly …


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The Power of Shortform: Book Summaries to Improve Your Life
Time! Who has it? That’s the problem with traditional reading – who has the time to pick a book, sit by the pool, on a park bench, or at the beach, and actually read? Couple that with the fact that most people read books all wrong – their eyes bounce off the words on the page as though there is a medal to win by finishing your reading list. There isn’t. (BTW, I’ve definitely read