1.   Chapter 4      Assessing Your Personality and Interests: Express Your Real Self
"I believe the only reason we're here is to find out what we love…and get about the business of living it!" —Oprah Winfrey

2. Student Learning Outcomes
List differences in personality types.
Explain your own personality type.
Recognize how personality type relates to career planning.
Identify college majors that interest you.
Match your interests to occupations and potential majors.

3. Exploring Personality
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Assessment tool to identify personality preferences
Developed by Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers
Based on early work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung

4. MBTI—Extroversion (E)
Likes action and variety, sociable
Focus on outer world: people, things, action
Likes to do mental work by talking to people
Likes to see results from how people do a job
Prefers to communicate by talking
Wants to know what other people expect
Acts first, thinks later

5. MBTI—Introversion (I)
Focuses on inner world of ideas, experiences, and memories
Prefers to communicate in writing
Prefers to do mental work privately
Likes to understand something before trying it
Likes to work alone or with a few people
Thinks first, acts later

6. MBTI—Sensing (S) Focus on things as they are, present-oriented
Observes and remembers specifics, facts
Enjoys using skills already learned
Understands ideas and theories through practical applications
Patient and good with details but impatient when situation gets complicated
“Sees trees before sees the forest”

7. MBTI – Intuitive (N) Focus on meanings, patterns in data
Oriented to future and possibilities
Imaginative, creative
Moves quickly to conclusions, follows hunches
Impatient with details, doesn’t mind complicated situations
“Sees forest before sees the trees”

8. MBTI – Thinking (T) Makes decisions logically, analytically
Uses cause and effect reasoning
Focuses more on ideas than relationships
Can be “tough-minded”
Fairness and justice is important
Strives for objective standard of truth
Has technical and scientific orientations

9. MBTI—Feeling (F)
Makes decisions by paying attention to personal values and feelings
Likes praise and to please people
Is aware of other people’s feelings
Empathetic, compassionate
Uncomfortable with arguments, conflict
Values harmony and positive interactions

10. MBTI—Judging (J) Likes to have a plan and to follow plan
Systematic, methodical
Finishes one project before starting another
Makes up mind about situations, people
May decide things too quickly
Lives by standards and schedules that are not easily changed
“Work first, fun later” philosophy

11. MBTI—Perceiving (P) Likes to stay flexible and avoid fixed plans
Deals easily with unplanned events
Likes to start projects, but may not finish them
May decide things too slowly
Lives spontaneously, making changes to deal with problems as they come along
“Fun first, work later” philosophy

12. Exploring Majors
First and last letters of personality type may indicate preferred style of exploring majors
EJ Types—declare majors early
EP Types—like to experience everything first; deciding is an ongoing process
IJ Types—research majors before deciding
IP Types—delay decisions while considering all options

13. Holland Interest Environments
Realistic
Investigative
Artistic
Social
Enterprising
Conventional

14. Holland’s Career Interest Types
John Holland, Career Researcher, suggests that career decisions are influenced by three of the six types.
These explain preferences for job tasks, job settings, and occupations.
People are happier and more successful in jobs matching their preferred types.

15. Holland’s Career Interest Types
Holland’s theory organizes the six types at the points of the hexagon with the most clearly related adjacent to each other and the most dissimilar across from each other.
Types next to one another on the hexagon have more in common with one another.

16. Holland’s Career Interest Types
For example, Realistic and Conventional types share common characteristics.
Knowing your personal combination of Holland groups is your Holland Code, which can direct your research and lead you to satisfying career options.

17. Doers
Realistic individuals are physical and like to work outdoors and with tools.
Prefer to deal with things rather than people.
Interested in majors such as:
Architectural/Mechanical Drafting
Civil Engineering
Criminal Justice
Medical Technology
Industrial Engineering

18. Thinkers
Investigative types are task-oriented and prefer to work alone.
Enjoy abstract problems and understanding physical world.
Interested in majors such as:
Biology, Chemistry, Dentistry, or Engineering
Computer Science
Economics
Geography or Geology
Law or Mathematics
Physics or Psychology

19. Creators
Artistic individuals like to work in artistic settings that allow opportunities for self-expression.
Interested in majors such as:
Advertising or Art History
Computer Animation or Graphics
Design Drafting or Technology
English or Music
Multimedia

20. Helpers
Sociable types are responsible and concerned with the welfare of others.
Interested in majors such as:
Child Care
Communications
Dental Hygiene
Education
Nursing
Religious Studies
Counseling

21. Persuaders
Enterprising individuals like leading, speaking, persuading, or selling.
Interested in majors such as:
Advertising
Business/Finance
Law
Marketing
Real Estate

22. Organizers
Conventional individuals prefer highly-ordered activities, both verbal and numerical.
Interested in majors such as:
Accounting
Computer Technology
Court Reporting/Paralegal
Legal/Medical Office Management
Library Science

23. Personality Types and Interest Clusters
Career satisfaction is directly related to one’s ability to incorporate unique personality characteristics and interests into a work situation.

24. World of Work Map

25. Passion Formula Your unique personality + interests = Your passions.
Use this knowledge to help you determine your career goals.

26. Ch. 4 Vocabulary Review
Personality
Myers-Briggs
Extraversion
Introversion
Sensing
Intuition
Judgment
Perception
Holland Interest Environments
Career Clusters