1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-Personality Tests Through Introspection
By Safdar Mehdi

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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."

5. Extrovert (E) Introvert (I) Act first, think/reflect later
Feel deprived when cutoff from Interaction with the outside world
Usually open to and motivated by outside world of people and things
Enjoy wide variety and change in people relationships
Introvert (I)
Think/reflect first, then Act
Regularly require an amount of “private time” to recharge batteries
Motivated internally, mind is sometimes so active it is “closed” to outside world
Prefer one-to-one communication and relationships

6. Sensing (S) Intuitive (N)
Mentally live in the Now, attending to present opportunities
Using common sense and creating practical solution is automatic-instinctual
Memory recall is rich in detail of facts and past events
Best improvise from past experience
Like clear and concrete information; dislikes guessing when facts are “Fuzzy”
Intuitive (N)
Mentally live in the Future, attending to future possibilities
Using imagination and creating/inventing new possibilities is automatic-instinctual
Memory recall emphasizes patterns, contexts, and connections
Best improvise from theoretical understanding
Comfortable with ambiguous, fuzzy data and with guessing its meaning

7. Thinking (T) Feelings (F)
Instinctively search for facts and logic in a decision situation
Naturally notices task and work to be accomplished
Easily able to provide an objective and critical analysis.
Accept conflict as a natural, normal part of relationships with people
Feelings (F)
Instinctively employ personal feelings and impacts on people in decision situations
Naturally sensitive to people needs and reactions
Naturally seek consensus and popular opinions
Unsettled by conflict; have almost a toxic reaction to disharmony

8. Judging (J) Perceiving (P)
Plan many of the details in advance before moving into action
Focus on task-related action; complete meaningful segments before moving on
Work best and avoid stress when keep ahead of deadlines
Naturally use targets, dates and standard routines to manage life
Perceiving (P)
Comfortable moving into action without a plan; plan on-the-go
Like to multitask, have variety, mix work and play
Naturally tolerant of time pressure; work best close to deadlines
Instinctively avoid commitments which interface with flexibility freedom and variety

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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.

16. Possible Career Paths for the ESTJ:
Military leaders
Business Administrators and Managers
Police / Detective work
Judges
Financial Officers
Teachers
Sales Representatives

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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.

20. Possible Career Paths for the ISFP:
Artist
Musician / Composer
Designer
Child Care / Early Childhood Development
Social Worker / Counselor
Teacher
Psychologist
Veterinarian
Forest Ranger
Pediatrician

21. 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.

22. Possible Career Paths for the ESFP:
Artists, Performers and Actors
Sales Representatives
Counselors / Social Work
Child Care
Fashion Designers
Interior Decorators
Consultants
Photographers

23. 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.

24. 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

25. 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.

26. 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

27. 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.

28. Possible Career Paths for the INFP:
Writers
Counselors / Social Workers
Teachers / Professors
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Musicians
Clergy / Religious Workers

29. 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.

30. 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

31. 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.

32. Possible Career Paths for the ENFJ:
Facilitator
Consultant
Psychologist
Social Worker / Counselor
Teacher
Clergy
Sales Representative
Human Resources
Manager
Events Coordinator
Politicians / Diplomats
Writers

33. 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.

34. 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

35. 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.

36. 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

37. 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.

38. 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

39. 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.

40. Possible Career Paths for the ENTJ:
Corporate Executive Officer; Organization Builder
Entrepreneur
Computer Consultant
Lawyer
Judge
Business Administrators and Managers
University Professors and Administrators