Personal type preferences and their usefulness for career decision

1. Personal type preferences and their usefulness for career decision Thecareersuccess

2. Outline • Preferences • Thetypes • Eight types of career • Ideal career?

3. Preferences • Energizing • How and where you get your energy • Attending • What you pay attention to when you gather information • Deciding • What system you use when you decide • Living • What type of life you adopt

4. EnergizingExtraversion / Introversion Interacting with other people ? & Being by myself ?

5. Preferences Extraversion Introversion • Become impatient and bored when my work is slow and unchanging • Seek a variety of action-oriented tasks • Be focused equally on what is going on in the work site as well as with my work • Become impatient and annoyed when my work is interrupted and rushed • Seek quiet to concentrate • Be focused more on the work itself than on what is going on in the work site

6. Preferences Extraversion Introversion • Respond quickly to requests and spring into action without much advance thinking • Enjoy phone calls as a welcome diversion • Develop ideas through discussion • Think through requests before responding, even to the point of delaying action • Find phone calls intrusive, especially when concentrating • Develop ideas through reflection

7. Preferences Extraversion Introversion • Use outside sources to complete my tasks • Need frequent changes in pace and seek outside events • Use myself as my basic resource to complete my tasks • Get caught up in my work and disregard outside events

8. The Energizing Preferences • Which preference seems to be more like you? ____Extraversion ____Introversion

9. Attending Sensing / Intuition Do I usually pay more attention to the facts and details ? & Do I try to understand the connections, underlying meaning and implications ?

10. Preferences Sensing Intuition • Use my previouslyacquiredworkexperience • Appreciatestandardways to solveproblems and reachsolutions • Applyskillsthat are alreadydeveloped, ratherthantakethetime to learn new ones • Does things differently than my previous work experience may dictate • Use new and different ways to solve problems and reach solutions • Enjoy learning new skills for the challenge and novelty involved

11. Preferences Sensing Intuition • Distrust and ignore my inspirations • Like things to be concrete and seldom make errors of fact • Prefer work that has practical aspect to it • Follow my inspirations regardless of the facts • Like things to be generally stated and seldom worry about specific facts • Prefer work that has an innovative aspect to it

12. Preferences Sensing Intuition • Want to understand how the details of my work make up a complete picture • Prefer to continue with what is tried and true • Want to see what is involved in the overall picture first and then fill in the details • Prefer change to continuing on with what is

13. The Attending Preferences • Which preference seems to be more like you? ____Sensing ____Intuition

14. DecidingThinking / Feeling Do I make decisions objectively, weighing pros and cons ? & Based on how I feel about the issue, and how I and others will be affected by it ?

15. Preferences Thinking Feeling • Orient myself toward the tasks • Like harmony, but can get along without it and still be effective at work • Use logic and analysis as a basis for my work • Orient myself toward my relationships • Need harmony in order to work most effectively • Include other’s opinions in addition to my personal values as a basis for my work

16. Preferences Thinking Feeling • Hurt people’s feelings without being aware • Decide impersonally and sometimes overlook other’s wishes so I can get my work done • Enjoy pleasing others even in unimportant things • Allow other’s likes and dislikes to influence my decisions, sometimes taking precedence over getting my work done

17. Preferences Thinking Feeling • Manage and deal firmly with others • Readily offer criticism or suggestions for improvement • Factor in principles and truths when making work-related decisions • Manage and relatesympatheticallywithothers • Avoid and dislikegivingandreceivingunpleasantfeedback, evenwhenwelldeserved • Factor in values and humanneedswhenmakingwork-relateddecisions

18. The Deciding Preferences • Which preference seems to be more like you? ____Thinking ____Feeling

19. LivingJudgment / Perception Would I rather have things settled and decided ? & Be able to leave my options open, just in case somtehing unexpected comes up ?

20. Preferences Judgment Perception • Do my best when I can plan my work and work my plan • Enjoy things settled and finished • Like checking items off my „to do“ list • Do my best when I can deal with needs as they arise • Enjoy keeping things open for last-minute changes • Ignore my „to do“ list even if I make one

21. Preferences Judgment Perception • Overlook new things that need to be done in order to complete my current job • Narrow down the possibilities and be satisfied once I reach a decision • Decide quickly and seek closure • Postpone my current tasks to meet momentary needs • Resist being tied down to a decision in order to gather more information • Put off decisions to seek options

22. Preferences Judgment Perception • Seek structure in scheduling myself and others • Prefer to regulate and control my work and that of others • Resist structure and favor changing circumstances • Prefer to free up my work and that of others

23. The Living Preferences • Which preference seems to be more like you? ____Judgment ____Perception

24. Who says that? • Just the facts, please! • Let’s talk this over. • Just do something. • Is this logical? • I can see it all now. • I need to think about this. • Let’s wait and see. • Will anybody be hurt?

25. Which is my type? • Which preference seems to be more like you? • E / I • S / N • T / F • J / P • –– –– –– ––

26. Another soucers • Psychodiagnostic tools • MBTI • GPOP • Books • The books based on Jung’s theory of personality types

27. Taking Advantage of Your Natural Way of Working • The most • 1, 2 • to least • 3, 4 • favorite functions

28. Eight distinct mental tools • SE • NE • TE • FE • SI • NI • TI • FI

29. ESFP, ESTP – RespondersACT AND ADAPT + - • Act and adapt quickly • Find practical solutions • Live form the moment • Long term plannig • Work before play • Easily bored

30. ENFP, ENTP – ExplorersINNOVATE AND INITIATE + - • Play witj ideas and make connections • Communicate with and inspire others • Change things • Thrive on variety • Following the rules • Dealing with all the details

31. ESTJ, ENTJ - ExpeditorsDIRECT AND DECIDE + - • Use logic and analysis • Decide and act • Get results • Principled • Validating and appreciating • Work before play • Deciding to fast

32. ESFJ, ENFJ – ContributorsCOMMUNICATE, COOPERATE + - • Develop raport • Express themselves and their values • Create harmony • Coordinate people to complet projects • Personalizing feedback • Not meeting their own needs

33. ISFJ, ISTJ - AssimilatorsSPECIALIZE AND STABILIZE + - • Accumulate information • Organizing the details • Follow procedure • Get the job done • Be practical • Unpredictable change • Too serious with details

34. INFJ, INTJ - VisionariesINTERPRET, IMPLEMENT + - • Learn and interpret • Create and organize ideas • Find application for ideas • Changing plans in midstream • Coping with routine

35. ISTP, INTP - AnalyzersEXAMINE AND EVALUATE + - • Use logical analysis • Adapt and go with the flow • Focus on competency and self-evaluation • Work independently • Following social norms • Dealing with rules and regulations

36. ISFP, INFP - EnhancersCARE AND CONNECT + - • Live by their values • Appreciate and affect others • Express themselves • Approach the world in a flexible way • Work in harmony • Always meeting other’s needs

37. Which type is it? • Public relations, marketer, actor • Correction officer, accountant, optician • Counselor – runaway youth, child welfare, alcohol and drugs, social worker, couch • Pilot, guard, park ranger, police detective • School director, manager, trainer • Career counselor, teacher - adults • Occupational therapist, writer, psychologist • Softwer designer and developer, engineer