his part contains a lot of interesting lists, and it’s a good place for you to start using the book. Here are some suggestions for using the lists to explore career options: � The Table of Contents at the beginning of this book presents a complete listing of the list titles in this section. You can browse the lists or use the Table of Contents to find those that interest you most. � We gave the lists clear titles, so most require little explanation. We provide comments for each group of lists. � As you review the lists, one or more of the jobs may appeal to you enough that you want to seek additional information. As this happens, mark that job (or, if someone else will be using this book, write it on a separate sheet of paper) so that you can look up the description of the job in Part IV. � Keep in mind that all jobs in these lists meet our basic criteria for being included in this book. All lists, therefore, are organized by personality type and emphasize occupations with high pay, high growth, or large numbers of openings. These economic measures are easily quantified and are often presented in lists of best jobs in the newspapers and other media. While earnings, growth, and openings are important, there are other factors to consider in your career planning. For example, location, having an opportunity to serve others, and enjoying your work are a few of many factors that may define the ideal job for you. These measures are difficult or impossible to quantify and thus are not used in this book, so you will need to consider the importance of these issues yourself. The resources listed in Appendix D may help you research these issues. � All data used to create these lists comes from the U.S. Department of Labor. The earnings figures are based on the average annual pay received by full-time workers. Because the earnings represent the national averages, actual pay rates can vary greatly by location, amount of previous work experience, and other factors. 3334 50BestJobsforYourPersonality ©JISTWorks Part III ________________________________________________________________________________

Best Jobs Overall for Each Personality Type: Jobs with the Highest Pay, Fastest Growth, and Most Openings The four sets of lists that follow are the most important lists in this book. The first set of lists presents, for each personality type, the jobs with the highest combined scores for pay, growth, and number of openings. These are very appealing lists because they represent jobs with the very highest quantifiable measures from our labor market. The 283 jobs in these six lists are the ones that are described in detail in Part IV. The three additional sets of lists present, for each personality type, jobs with the highest scores in each of three measures: annual earnings, projected percentage growth, and largest number of openings.

The 50 Best Jobs for Each Personality Type These are the lists that most people want to see first. For each personality type, you can see the jobs that have the highest overall combined ratings for earnings, projected growth, and number of openings. (The “How the Jobs in This Book Were Selected” section in the Introduction explains in detail how we rated jobs to assemble this list.) Although each list covers one personality type, you’ll notice a wide variety of jobs on the list. For example, among the top 20 Investigative jobs are some in the fields of high technology, medicine, education, and business. Among the top 20 Conventional jobs are some in the financial, legal, technology, and health-care industries. We included each job’s personality code, which indicates its primary and secondary (if any) personality types. A look at one list will clarify how we ordered the jobs—take the Realistic list as an example. Civil Engineers is on the top of the list because it was the occupation with the best total score. The second-place job,

Surveyors, has somewhat better projected job growth, but it has fewer projected job openings and considerably lower earnings, so its total score was lower than that for Civil Engineers. The other occupations follow in descending order based on their total scores. Many jobs had tied scores and were simply listed one after another, so there are often only very small or even no differences between the scores of jobs that are near each other on the list. All other job lists in this book use these lists as their source. You can find descriptions for each of these jobs in Part IV, beginning on page 129.