The document summarizes the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality assessment. It was developed based on Carl Jung's ideas about personality types and measures preferences on four scales: Extraversion vs Introversion, Sensing vs Intuition, Thinking vs Feeling, and Judging vs Perceiving. The MBTI can help individuals understand themselves and find career satisfaction but does not determine skills, intelligence, or abilities. It suggests common careers that types may be drawn to but many factors influence career choices.
2. • One of the most popular tests is the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator (MBTI).
• The MBTI was developed and championed by Katharine
Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers.
• Inspired by Carl Jung’s ideas about personality types:
unique ways in which people perceive and understand the
world.
3. -Knowing your preferences could enable you to find
satisfaction in your career and better understand other
people
4. •To find out what work you would love, you need to
know yourself
•One way of know yourself is through personality
assessments
• MBTI
• Personality Dimensions
5. §Is NOT about skills, intelligence, abilities, or expertise
§Does NOT tell you what you should or can do…
….and what you shouldn't or can’t do
§People are influenced by more than their ‘Type’
§ environment
§ culture
§ education and training
§ interests and motivations
6.
7. Your PREFERRED hand
Feels natural, you didn’t think about it, it was effortless,
looks neat and legible
Your NONPREFERRED hand
Feels unnatural, had to concentrate, was awkward,
looks childlike
9. Extraversion How do you prefer to
direct and get energy?
Introversion
Sensing How do you prefer to take
in information?
INtuition
Thinking How do you prefer to
make decisions?
Feeling
Judging How do you prefer to live
your life everyday?
Perceiving
10. *Introversion/ Extroversion
*Distinguishes a preference for focusing attention on, and
drawing energy from, the outer world of people and things
versus the inner world of ideas and impressions.
11. *Intuition/ Sensing
*Distinguishes a preference for gathering data directly
through the senses as facts, details, and precedents (Sensing)
versus indirectly as relationships, patterns, and possibilities
(INtuition).
*Thinking/ Feeling
*Distinguishes a preference for deciding via objective,
impersonal logic (Thinking) versus subjective, person-
centered values (Feeling).
12. *Judging/ Perceiving
*Distinguishes an outward preference for having
things planned and organized (Judging) versus a
flexible style based more on staying open to
options than deciding (Perceiving).
13. ISTJ
Management
Administration
Law enforcement
Accounting
ISFJ
Education
Health care
Religious settings
INFJ
Religion
Counseling
Teaching
Arts
INTJ
Scientific or technical
fields
Computers
Law
ISTP
Skilled trades
Technical fields
Agriculture
Law Enforcement
Military
ISFP
Health care
Business
Law enforcement
INFP
Counseling
Writing
Arts
INTP
Scientific or technical
fields
ESTP
Marketing
Skilled trades
Business
Law enforcement
Applied technology
ESFP
Health care
Teaching
Coaching
Childcare worker
Skilled trades
ENFP
Counseling
Teaching
Religion
Arts
ENTP
Science
Management
Technology
Arts
ESTJ
Management
Administration
Law enforcement
ESFJ
Education
Health care
Religion
ENFJ
Religion
Arts
Teaching
ENTJ
Management
Leadership
Source: From Introduction to Type and Careers, A.L. Hammer, 1993,
Consulting Psychologists Press