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I came across to Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) last year when I was working on an international assignment with a team of colleagues from the US, UK & Malaysia. Since this was the first time we work together as a team, we definitely do not know each other before and working as a team requires us to know each others personality to effectively meet the objective of the assignment. A team coach, an American was assigned to our team and he introduced the MBTI to us. We took the MBTI personality questionnaire individually then shared our personality traits to the team. From there we started to understand each other’s personality including ourselves. At the end of the day, the team managed to work together and successfully completed the assignment as per the objective and timeline. Hooray!!!!

So how MBTI can help us in our job matching?

To answer this question let us firstly learn the history of MBTI and followed by how to link your personality to your suitable career path.

MBTI started based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types in 1913. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was first introduced in 1944 in “Briggs Myers Type Indicator Handbook”. Isabel Briggs Myers developed this personality analysis by leveraging her mother’s work, Katharine Cook Briggs who has divided human personality into 4 pairs types - Attitude, Perceiving, Judging & Lifestle in 1924. Through her prize winning mystery novel “Murder Yet to Come” in 1928, Isabel adapted these 4 pair types personalities traits to solve a murder mystery. Furthermore, MBTI was also introduced believing that a knowledge of personality preferences would help women who were entering the industrial workforce during World War II for the first time able to identify the sort of war-time jobs where they would be “most comfortable and effective” in. Only after 1956, MBTI was formally introduced to the modern world.  

MBTI works based on your preferance not on your ability. The questionaire was developed based on your spontaneous response. The result from the questionaire (represented by abrevations) identify your preferance in your attitude style (E or I), your perceiving style (S or N), your judging or decision making style (T or F) & your perfered lifestyle (J or P). The result can be presented in 16

different combination as shown in the

table on your right.

Brief description for each pair of the personality style:

Attitude 

E = Extraversion – action oriented attitude

I = Introversion – thinking oriented attitude

Perceiving

S = Sensing – data oriented person

N = iNtuition – non data oriented person (based on gut feeling)

Judgement

T = Thinking – logical oriented person

F = Feeling – emotional oriented person

Lifestyle

J = Judging - thinking or feeling lifestyle

P = Perceiving - sensing or intuition lifestyle

You can take a FREE questionaire thru this link. Register yourself and start the questionaire whenever you are ready.

Note: If you are in a hurry or emotionally disturbed, please do not take the questionaire now. You can save the link and come back to it when you are ready. Your personality traits from the questionaire should be based on your spontanouse response so that it will reflect your most accurate personality traits.

Through this link, your will find a list of recommended career path for each MBTI style. Please take note this is solely based on MBTI expert recommendations. Please wisely make your judgement based on your own personality traits.

If you need to discuss furthur about your suitable career path, you can e-mail me at career_advisor@resumeweassist.com for a FREE consultation or drop your comments at below.

Good luck

Regards

Yusoff