Whether its picking a career, changing a career, or developing a career, understanding your MBTI® assessment results can help navigate these waters. MBTI® assessment results assist individuals with career exploration by providing insight when seeking to choose a job that is a good fit for their personality type.

The results describe preferred work tasks and work environments as well as most popular and least popular occupations-for any type, and offers strategies for improving job satisfaction. MBTI assessment results help you learn what job categories people of your type enjoy. There are good reasons why the 16 types cluster in certain professions. Usually, it's a job where they can use their strengths. You can be happy and satisfied in any number of careers. The Career Report includes your type's attractiveness ranking on 22 different job families. For example, Business and Finance might be a popular job family for your type, while another type might prefer Computers and Mathematics. You will see what common work tasks and work environments your type prefers, along with suggested action steps you can take. See where others have gone before you in their career searches. Every type has potential strengths and challenges in career development. You can see which strategies experts recommend for your type.

Understanding your personality type can assist your career development in a number of ways.

1) It can help you select a career field that is a good fit for your personality make-up.
2) It can increase your awareness of your learning style so you can better benefit from career related education.
3) Understanding your personality preferences can help you better manage job challenges that inevitably rise during the course of our career.

The rationale for why personality type is relevant to career selection is briefly stated by Jean Kummerow in the MBTI Manual, 3rd edition (p.293)

"According to type theory, MBTI® Types would be distributed in occupations consistent with the characteristics of the work environments of those occupations. Occupations may 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."

In addition to the nature of occupations "attracting" certain types there is also a culling process where certain types who discover their occupation is not suitable (with or without assistance from their employers) will leave the occupation. So data on correlations between type and occupation can identify potentially good matches between the pattern of your personality and the requirements of an occupation. For example data from the Type Atlas for the ISTJ type indicates many of this type are drawn to occupations like: dentistry, auditing, accounting, mechanical engineering, math teaching, industrial arts teaching, and banking. Conversely the data suggests very few ISTJs are found among: the clergy, psychologists, journalists, marketing professionals, or professional photographers. The first set of data serves to highlight some potential occupations worth considering, while the second set of data suggests some caution.

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