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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-Personality Tests Through Introspection. By Safdar Mehdi. Understanding your Personality Type can assist your career development in a number of ways. It can help you select a career field that is a good fit for your personality make-up.
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-Personality Tests Through Introspection By Safdar Mehdi
Understanding your Personality Type can assist your career development in a number of ways. • It can help you select a career field that is a good fit for your personality make-up. • It can increase your awareness of your learning style so you can better benefit from career related education. • Understanding your personality preferences can help you better manage Job Challenges that inevitably rise there ugly heads during the course of our career.
Myers Briggs Type Indicator • These preferences were extrapolated from the typological theories originated by Carl Gustav Jung, as published in his 1921 book Psychological Types (English edition, 1923).The original developers of the personality inventory were Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers.
MBTI Tests "According to type theory, MBTI Types would be distributed in occupations consistent with the characteristics of the work environments of those occupations. Occupations my both require and reward specific ways of perceiving information and making decisions on that information; thus different types would be expected to be attracted to different occupations."
ISTJ • Serious, quiet, earn success by concentration and thoroughness. Practical, orderly, Matter-of-fact, logical, realistic, and dependable. See to it that every thing is well organized. Take responsibility. Make up their own minds as to what should be accomplished and work toward it steadily, regardless of protests or distractions.
Possible Career Paths for the ISTJ: • Business Executives, Administrators and Managers • Accountants and Financial Officers • Police and Detectives • Judges • Lawyers • Medical Doctors / Dentists • Computer Programmers, Systems Analysts, and Computer Specialists • Military Leaders • http://www.personalitypage.com
ISTP • Cool onlookers – quiet, reserved, observing and analyzing life with detached curiosity and unexpected flashes of original humor. Usually interested in cause and effect, how and why mechanical things work, and in organizing facts using logical principles. Excel at getting to the core of a practical problem and finding the solution.
Possible Career Paths for the ISTP: • Police and Detective Work • Forensic Pathologists • Computer Programmers, System Analysts and Computer Specialists • Engineers • Carpenters • Mechanics • Pilots, Drivers, Motorcyclists • Athletes • Entrepreneurs
ESTP • Good at on-the-spot problem solving. Like action, enjoy what ever comes along. Tend to like mechanical things and sports. Adaptable, tolerant, pragmatic; focused on getting results. Dislike long explanations. Are best with real things that can be worked handled, taken apart or put together.
Possible Career Paths for the ESTP: • Sales Representatives • Marketing Personnel • Police / Detective Work • Paramedic / Emergency Medical Technician • PC Technicians or Network Cablers • Computer Technical Support • Entrepreneurs
ESTJ • Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact, with a natural head for business or mechanics. Not interested in abstract theories; want learning to have direct and immediate application. Like to organize and run activities. Often make good administrators; are decisive, quickly move to implement decisions; Take care of routine details.
Possible Career Paths for the ESTJ: • Military leaders • Business Administrators and Managers • Police / Detective work • Judges • Financial Officers • Teachers • Sales Representatives
ISFJ • Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Work devotedly to meet their obligations. Lend stability to any project or group. Thorough, painstaking, accurate. Their interests are usually not technical. Can be patient with necessary details. Loyal, considerate, perceptive, concerned with how other people feel.
Possible Career Paths for the ISFJ: • Interior Decorators • Designers • Nurses • Administrators and Managers • Administrative Assistants • Child Care / Early Childhood Development • Social Work / Counselors • Paralegals • Clergy / Religious Workers • Office Managers • Shopkeepers • Bookkeepers • Home Economics
ISFP • Retiring, quietly friendly, sensitive, kind, modest about their abilities. Shun disagreements do not force their opinions or values on others. Usually do not care to lead but are often loyal followers. Often relaxed about getting things done because they enjoy the present moment and do not want to spoil it by undue haste or exertion.
Possible Career Paths for the ISFP: • Artist • Musician / Composer • Designer • Child Care / Early Childhood Development • Social Worker / Counselor • Teacher • Psychologist • Veterinarian • Forest Ranger • Pediatrician
ESFP • Outgoing, accepting, friendly, enjoy everything and make things more fun for others by their enjoyment. Like action and making things happen. Know what’s going on and join in eagerly. Find remembering facts easier than mastering theories. Are best in situations that need sound common sense and practical ability with people.
Possible Career Paths for the ESFP: • Artists, Performers and Actors • Sales Representatives • Counselors / Social Work • Child Care • Fashion Designers • Interior Decorators • Consultants • Photographers
ESFJ • Warm-hearted, talkative, popular conscientious, born cooperators, active committee members. Need harmony and may be good at creating it. Always doing something nice for someone. Work best with encouragement and praise. Main interest is in things that directly and visibly affect people’s lives.
Possible Career Paths for the ESFJ: • Home Economics • Nursing • Teaching • Administrators • Child Care • Family Practice Physician • Clergy or other religious work • Office Managers • Counselors / Social Work • Bookkeeping / Accounting • Administrative Assistants
INFJ • Succeed by perseverance, originality, and desire to do whatever is needed or wanted. Put their best efforts into their work. Quietly forceful, conscientious, concerned for others. Respected for their firm principles. Likely to be honored and followed for their clear visions as to how best to serve the common good.
Possible Career Paths for the INFJ: • Clergy / Religious Work • Teachers • Medical Doctors / Dentists • Alternative Health Care Practitioners, i.e. Chiropractor, Reflexologist • Psychologists • Psychiatrists • Counselors and Social Workers • Musicians and Artists • Photographers • Child Care / Early Childhood Development
INFP • Quiet observers, idealistic, loyal. Important that outer life be congruent with inner values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, often serve as catalysts to implement ideas. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened. Want to understand people and ways of fulfilling human potential. Little concern with possession or surroundings.
Possible Career Paths for the INFP: • Writers • Counselors / Social Workers • Teachers / Professors • Psychologists • Psychiatrists • Musicians • Clergy / Religious Workers
ENFP • Warm enthusiastic, high-spirited, ingenious, and imaginative. Able to do almost anything that interests them. Quick with a solution for any difficulty and ready to help any one with a problem. Often rely on their ability to improvise instead of preparing in advance. Can usually find compelling reasons for whatever they want.
Possible Career Paths for the ENFP: • Consultant • Psychologist • Entrepreneur • Actor • Teacher • Counselor • Politician / Diplomat • Writer / Journalist • Television Reporter • Computer Programmer, Systems Analyst, or Computer Specialist • Scientist • Engineer
ENFJ • Feel real concern for what others think or want, and try to handle things with due regard for the other’s feelings. Can present a proposal or lead a group discussion with ease and tact. Sociable, Popular, sympathetic. Responsive to praise and criticism. Like to facilitate others and enable people to achieve their potential.
Possible Career Paths for the ENFJ: • Facilitator • Consultant • Psychologist • Social Worker / Counselor • Teacher • Clergy • Sales Representative • Human Resources • Manager • Events Coordinator • Politicians / Diplomats • Writers
INTJ • Have original minds and great drive for their own ideas and purposes. Have long-range vision and quickly find meaningful pattern in external events. In fields that appeal to them they have a fine power to organize a job carry it through. Skeptical, critical, independent, determined have high standard of competence and performance.
Possible Career Paths for the INTJ: • Scientists • Engineers • Professors and Teachers • Medical Doctors / Dentists • Corporate Strategists and Organization Builders • Business Administrators / Managers • Military Leaders • Lawyers / Attorneys • Judges • Computer Programmers, Systems Analysts and Computer Specialists
INTP • Quiet and reserved. Especially enjoy theoretical or scientific pursuits. Like solving problems with logic and analysis. Interested mainly in ideas, with little liking for parties or small talk. Tend to have sharply defined interests. Need careers where strong interest can be use and useful.
Possible Career Paths for the INTP: • Scientists - especially Physics, Chemistry • Photographers • Strategic Planners • Mathematicians • University Professors • Computer Programmers, Systems Analysts, Computer Animation and Computer Specialists • Technical Writers • Engineers • Lawyers / Attorneys • Judges • Forensic Research • Forestry and Park Rangers
ENTP • Quick, ingenious, good at many things. Stimulating company, alert and outspoken. May argue for fun on either side of a question. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems, but may neglect routine assignments. Apt to turn to one new interest after another. Skillful in finding logical reasons for what they want.
Possible Career Paths for the ENTP: • Lawyers • Psychologists • Entrepreneurs • Photographers • Consultants • Engineers • Scientists • Actors • Sales Representatives • Marketing Personnel • Computer Programmer, Systems Analyst, or Computer Specialist
ENTJ • Frank, decisive, leaders in activities. Develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Good in anything that requires reasoning and intelligent talk, such as public speaking. Are usually well informed and enjoy adding to their fund of knowledge.
Possible Career Paths for the ENTJ: • Corporate Executive Officer; Organization Builder • Entrepreneur • Computer Consultant • Lawyer • Judge • Business Administrators and Managers • University Professors and Administrators