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Daily Excerpt: Understanding the Seeker (Quinelle) - The Seeker at Work

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  Excerpt from Understanding the Seeker   (Quinelle) -  The Seeker at Work Many people end up in jobs and even careers that are not well matched with their personality profile. Around the turn of this century, some businesses typed themselves—what kinds of characteristics they needed in their employees and their leaders—and set about hiring employees in accordance with those characteristics. This practice is waning as we enter the second decade  of the 21 st century. It could be that businesses have found that matching company needs and personality traits is a much more complex endeavor than originally thought, one that includes the needs of the business in terms of kinds of products, the job and career choices for the future employee, and the needs and personality types of co-workers and clients.* Job and Career Choices If a high school or college guidance counselor were to suggest appropriate jobs for young Seekers, chances are the suggestions would likely be...

Excerpt from Understanding the Seeker (Quinelle): "Understanding the Seeker's Approach to Life"

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  The Quinelle series of books, based on  Understanding the People around You , focuses on individual personality types. The excerpt below is from  Understanding the Seeker: Socionics in Everday Life . Want more information? Read the books! Start with Filatova's book, then turn to Quinelle's books that break out the individual styles: Understanding the Analyst Understanding the Critic Understanding the Entrepreneur Understanding the Seeker ---- at least three more coming in 2022 (Romantic, Performer, Professional) Understanding the Seeker’s Approach to Life What is the Seeker? The Seeker is an Intuitive Thinking Extrovert (ITE). As such, he or she is a combination of the three expressed traits and the unexpressed trait, Irrationality (emphasis on the Jungian definition, not the English-language lay definition). Filatova describes the Seeker in the following way: The most attractive feature of Seekers (ITEs) is their enthusiastic look, as if they are oversized chil...