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In the previous articles I’ve written about “Looking for a job”, my focus was more into personality matching with a suitable job. More or less by now, you should have some idea about some tools available to help you in assessing your job suitability with your personality. Personally, I would recommend MBTI as one of the best personality assessment available but I leave it to you to decide your preferred choice. Whatever it is, remember that these personality assessments are just a guide for you to make the “best” decision to start or progress in your career.

Now, moving forward in my next articles about “Looking for a job”, I would like to share on how to apply the result from your personality assessment to achieve the following:

• Identifying appropriate job
• Getting to where you want to be

In today’s article; Part 1, I’ll start with “Identifying appropriate job”.

Assuming by now, you should have the result of your personality test. To ease the discussion, let me take my personality test result (using MBTI) as a case study.

Based on the result, I’m a ISTJ person which are Introverted, Sensing, Thinking & Judgement.

As what I have shared in my previous article, MBTI categorized personality into attitude, perceiving, judgement & lifestyle (brief description are shown below).

Attitude
I = Introverted – thinking oriented attitude

Perceiving
S = Sensing – data oriented person

Judgement
T = Thinking – logical oriented person

Lifestyle
J = Judging -thinking or feeling lifestyle

How do I use this result to identify the appropriate job for me?

Based on a book “To find a job. Start a new career. The career and job change toolbox” by Marvin Rafal, PhD, there are 3 types of jobs which are:

People occupational – most of the time and effort is spent interacting with people. Common activities to these type of jobs are managing, consulting, counseling, influencing, teaching, negotiating, facilitating, calling, announcing, discussing & listening. Some of the characteristics of people jobs are ability to get along with variety of personalities, well developed oral & written skills, genuine interest in others and their opinions, feeling of satisfaction when sharing & working with others.

Data occupational – majority of the time & effort is spent working with facts & documentation by analyzing, interpreting, researching, computing, grouping and sorting to find the relevant data. The person in this type of job must has a systematic approach to get the job done, use logic in problem solving, accountable and has the ability & passion to search out answers.

Idea occupational – time & effort spent generating alternatives, finding new ways to do things and even find new things to do. Most of the time, a person in this job will be designing, problem solving, networking, exploring, testing, discussing, trying things out, bouncing ideas around, thinking outside of the box and planning a timeline. Major characteristic of this person is creativity, excitement, innovation, interest in the future, ability to see trends early, natural curiosity, and see things differently.

Based on my ISTJ personality, I’m responsible, loyal and hard working. I have an acute sense of right and wrong and work hard at preserving established norms and traditions. Because of my deep sense of duty I’m dedicated to everything I do and are very dependable. I also care deeply for those closest to me. Hence with this personality, I’m suitable for people & data occupational. But I can not conclude yet on what I actually want until I’ve completed the part 2: Getting to where you want to be. I’ll share on how to do that in my next article.

If you want to try this same activity as what I have done in part 1, please leave your comments or e-mail me at career_advisor@resumeweassist.com. I’m more that willing to help you attain your career goals!