Myers-Briggs Jobs: Personality Test to Find Your Ideal Career | Indeed Career Tips

Gaining insight on your personality can help reveal your ideal career path. In this video, you’ll learn how to quickly identify your probable Myers-Briggs personality type and how each personality element may influence your preferences, strengths and weaknesses in the workplace.

In this video, Jenn, a certified Career Coach, explains each Myers-Briggs personality factor and its possible career matches.

00:00 Welcome
0:25 Extroversion vs. Introversion
1:33 Sensing vs. Intuition
2:42 Feeling vs. Thinking
3:58 Judging vs. Perceiving
4:40 How to get specific career recommendations for your personality

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[Louisianish]

A few things on this test. None of these personality traits are binary. They exist on a spectrum. One can make decisions based on both feeling and logical thinking. Sure, many of us lean towards certain traits, but in both our personal lives and our professional lives, we engage these different parts of our brains all day long.

As great as the Myers-Briggs test is, tests like this can have the negative effect of making people second guess their true passions. For years, I wanted to learn how to code, but I always thought I wasn’t smart enough to learn, and personality and type tests like this convinced me I wouldn’t actually enjoy it, because I’m an extrovert and an ENFP according to Myers-Briggs. Well guess what. I’ve been learning how to code for the last year, and I’m obsessed. I love the creation and problem solving aspects of programming. I especially love web development. And guess what I also discovered. Web developers interact with clients all the time, and there are also plenty of web devs who are extroverts. One thing I love is guest/customer service, and I’ve realized web devs engage in customer interaction quite often.

Along those lines, I think every industry needs perspectives from a variety of individuals of various professional backgrounds and personality types. One thing I realized working in hospitality is that, while some employers will underestimate the value of introverts, people who may be classified as INTJ (or others) have so much valuable insight and perspective to offer a team in the hospitality industry.

Employers: Please don’t automatically dismiss a candidate for a position just because they don’t fit into a specific mold prescribed by a personality test that says they might not be the right "type" of person for the job.

Job seekers. Don’t let a test like this be the end all, be all in determining your career path. The type of person you are is much more complex than four defining letters, and this test is just aimed to help you better understand your strengths and personality types, which can possibly help you choose a career path.

[christopherhilliard]

The Myers-Briggs test has no validity in psychology, and is utter nonsense. Its the psychology equivalent of reading tea leaves, and is as useless for hiring.

[Robin.Backer]

Letter typing doesn't work. You need to type MBTI using cognitive functions such as Ti, Te, Ni, Ne, etc

[bOokWorM]

this test is not valid. Read on this at least in Wikipedia with links to the proofs why it's so.