In the vein of Richard Nelson Bolles (What Color is Your Parachute?) who provides the introduction for the book, licensed psychologist and career counsellor of over 20 years Dr Carol Eikleberry offers insights, exercises and encouragement, aimed specifically at the Artistic personality who feels out of place in a conventional workplace and is looking for a career change.

Career Challenges and the Creative Personality

Eikleberry begins with an explanation of the creative impulse and provides useful self-assessment tools for the reader to analyse their personality to better help them understand their work-related needs. Based on Dr John Holland’s vocational theory that divides up personalities and corresponding work environments into Artistic, Social, Investigative, Enterprising, Realistic and Conventional, Eikleberry explains how each person falls into one of these categories, though usually with elements of more than one.

Using online tools provided by ONet Center, the reader can discover their three-letter Holland code, which is a combination of the top three categories one’s personality correlates with. As suggested by the book’s title, Eikleberry then focuses specifically on those with mostly an Artistic personality.

• Career Non Traditional

• Teacher Career Objective

• Concordia University Career

• Careers As Quality Assurance

• Lobbying Career