I do find the website by Career Key to be self explanatory; hence I’ve decided just to share the link for your own exploration. Please spend some time to go through the website. There are some charges to take the assessment but I’m sure if you really interested to learn about your personality match to your suitable job, it is a worthy investment.

Anyway if you have any comments about Career Key, feel free to drop them in the comments below for our knowledge & experience sharing purposes.

Good luck.

Regards

Yusoff

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 

Previously in early May, I wrote about the importance of having an objective in looking for a job. By having some sort of short or long term objective, the action that you will be taking up next in CMS will be more pleasant and exciting and eventually lead to your success in your career.

Today, I would like to share some tools that may be helpful in accessing your personality to match your objective. If you do a Google search on “personality test – job matching” there are about 7000 sites available for you to uncover your personality to match your dream job. In practical, it does not make sense to take all of them. In fact, taking so many personality tests will just confuse us more. Ending up, you might lose your personality

In this article, I will only list down some of the recommended personality test-job matching available in the net. In my future articles, I will share my own experience taking these tests including the link for you to try it out . I will also share the pro and contra of each of these tests. I would also appreciate if you could also share your own experience by leaving your comments.

Personality test – Job mactching

1)      Myers-Briggs (MBTI)

2)      Career Key

3)      Discover Your Perfect Career Quiz

4)      Keirsey Temperament Starter

5)      Princeton Review Career Quiz

6)      Strong Interest Inventory

Word of caution: Please do not rely 100% on all these personality test-job matching to make your decision on your career path. The result from your test should only be used as a guide and it is also a part of the criteria in deciding your career path. Your final decision should include your interest and your ability not only on your personality.

Till then

Take care

Regards

Yusoff