Best Career Move for Your Personality Type
Now that it’s a new year, it’s the perfect time for you to make a career move. But even if you meet the qualifications for your current job, have you ever wondered if the career you chose is truly right for you? Although you might apply for a job based on your skill set, you might get more out of your professional life if you find the best career based on your personality.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator categorizes and identifies people depending on their tendencies to think and act in unique ways, according to Truity, a publisher of online personality and career assessment tests. By identifying your personality type, you can come to a better understanding of what type of environment you need to thrive and work your way up the career ladder. For a full breakdown of your personality type, you can take the test here.
There are 16 main personality types, all of which are given an acronym. This acronym is based on the dimensions of someone’s personality and preferences: introversion versus extraversion, sensing versus intuition, thinking versus feeling and judging versus perceiving, according to Truity. For example, the best career for your extraversion will likely be a job that involves interaction with a lot of people, but knowing whether you lean more toward sensing or intuition or judging versus perceiving can help you more accurately choose the job that’s best for you. Keep reading to discover some of the best careers for your personality type.
Rationalists
Myers-Briggs Results: ESTJ, ISTJ, ESTP, ISTP
Sample Jobs: general manager, accountant, financial advisor, mechanic
This personality type desires all things logical and practical. Unlike idealists who might rely on theories and abstract thinking to guide them, rationalists’ beliefs are rooted in realistic and pragmatic solutions. Therefore, they tend to gravitate toward systems, structure and real strategies to help them troubleshoot and get results.
For example, working as a financial advisor could be a perfect fit for this personality type because it involves producing practical solutions for people to achieve a specific financial goal. In this case, they would provide ways for people to successfully manage their money. Also, landing a career as a general manager might be ideal for this personality type because it requires practical supervision over a team (i.e., someone giving formal instructions).
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Givers
Myers-Briggs Results: ESFJ, ISFJ, ESFP, ISFP
Sample Jobs: child care director, social worker, dental assistant, surveyor
This group is categorized by its desire to serve and help others. Many people with this personality type would likely do well as caretakers.
For example, a child care center director designs program plans and oversees activities for children. This career allows givers to exercise their love of taking care of others by doing things that others might not be able to do themselves. Social work might also be a solid career choice for this group because it requires givers to help families manage interpersonal problems. This can include crisis response and advocacy across many different fields.
Creatives
Myers-Briggs Results: ENTP, INTJ, ENTJ, INTP
Sample Jobs: engineer, software developer, entrepreneur, psychiatrist
This personality type places an emphasis on original thought. Instead of coming up with solutions based on a pre-existing system, creatives tend to generate new possibilities and ideas.
For example, someone with this personality type would do well as an attorney or an engineer. Both are jobs that pay extremely well and require innovative ways of thinking. As an attorney, creatives might have to connect pieces of evidence together to introduce a new theory, reasoning or line of thought that wasn’t there before. And as an engineer, creatives have the freedom to use their imagination to produce innovative designs and implement creative solutions to highly complex problems.
Philanthropists
Myers-Briggs Results: ENFJ, INFJ, ENFP, INFP
Sample Jobs: teacher, writer, animator, preschool teacher
Those who have this personality type thrive when they have the ability to enhance the lives of other people and make the world a better place, according to Truity. Ultimately, the goal of the philanthropist is the welfare and happiness of others.
These values can manifest in roles like a teacher or writer, for example. As a teacher, someone belonging to this personality group can serve as an inspirational figure to others by offering meaningful and impactful knowledge to their students. The same can be said if they pursue a career as a writer. Many authors write books to inform or entertain readers on topical issues or subject matter that they regard as meaningful or important.
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