Personality Type Assessment

Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging - ISTJ

Results

Your personality type profile is ISTJ - Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging.

Action Step | Overview | Tasks & Features to Maximize | Job Titles | Challenges | Tasks to Minimize

Action Step:

Overview:

You have a highly developed sense of responsibility for work, home, and family. You are organized and detailed oriented. You are practical, sensible, and businesslike. You honor your commitments and are very trustworthy. You are practical and thorough. Your ideas are well thought-out. You are difficult to distract once you are on what you believe is the best course of action.

Job Tasks and Job Features to Maximize at Work Environment:

• Using facts and specifics
• Overseeing projects that require attention to details and bringing many activities together
• Productivity is rewarded – often seen in managerial positions
• Being in charge
• Management over areas requiring compliance with several regulations and codes
• People management with clear boundaries and expectations
• Teaching subjects that require relaying factual information to students
• Jobs that serve society, get back sense of serving through work and making world a better place
• Jobs where credibility stems from academics and articulating factual information to coworkers (i.e. medical profession, serving patients and communicating to other medical professionals)
• Expert proficiency level in computer programs
• Company with a clear-cut chain of command and its processes are systemized, frequently these will be established companies that are not undergoing major reorganization
• Technical in nature and uses ability to use and remember important facts and details
• Clinical research
• Translating factual data and research into practical uses – either applying it in the community or creating print or digital materials (teaching, training or sales tools)
• Committee projects
• Overseeing projects and processes that require a lot of attention and details
• Planning, setting goals, establishing priorities, and decision making based on facts and past data
• Evaluating whether goals were met
• Serving on boards
• Working in structured environment
• Responsible for lots of information
• Independent work environment with ample time to complete projects
• Tangible and measurable results
• Practical judgment and experience are valued and rewarded

Job Titles:

Keep in mind that what you do in reality must reflect working primarily in job tasks from the list above. Job titles are not always reflective of the actual work, in that case, the work should be adjusted to come from your tasks and features list above if you want to work within your natural personality type.

• Website project manager
• Website content editor
• Clinical dietitian specializing in areas that require focus on factual information and details (i.e. lab test intensive, renal, diabetes)
• Food service manager
• College instructor in clinical nutrition topics and factual based science topics
• Sales representative in area that relies on conveying factual information to the customer and sales performance is rewarded on productivity
• Military dietitian
• Military food service manager
• Computer system sales representative or trainer
• Physician with research component
• Medical researcher
• Community nutrition dietitian (focus on interpreting research into practical settings)
• Teaching materials developer
• Dean of allied health professions at university
• Medical center administrator
• Office manager
• Productivity/efficiency expert
• Government inspector
• Purchasing agent and contract specialist
• Association manager and adviser
• Information specialist
• Hardware/software tester
• Exercise physiologist
• Public health officer

Possible Areas of Challenge:

You can find yourself losing yourself in details of a project and being rigid sticking to the original course and not adapting well to other points of view. Reputation may be that you are cold or unfeeling -- need to be sure to strategize to soften this by making an effort to socialize, reach out to coworkers or other professional networks. Your high expectations of yourself can be imposed on people working around you. This can prevent those with less assertive personalities from coming forward with their ideas and even stump their productivity.

Job Tasks to Minimize:

• Focus on the future (you prefer present and working with real data)
• Generating theories or abstractions that require jumping beyond hard data, going on hunches
• Decision making relying on gray areas
• Teaching that is not predictable, requires on the spot creativity, teaching must adapt to the students (often primary school or students that are higher maintenance are not a good fit)
• Long-range planning
• Start-up departments or companies, the state of flux can be stressful
• Direct contact with patients, customers a large portion of the day (you do enjoy people but dealing constantly with the concerns and needs of people and making personal connections is draining on you)
• Reprimanding, dismissing, laying off
• Social politics

You can at any time retake the assessment –most people find the assessment describes themselves very well. If you are not convinced it is your natural tendency, go back through and retake the assessment or look into working with a professional trained in the official version of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) test online. This happens more often in households where the parents or the current work role of the individual encouraged behaviors that were different than their personality type and have adapted well to this more unnatural state.

Also, if you are interested in going more in-depth or getting assistance on applying your findings to your personal and/or professional life, contact a trained professional in administering the full MBTI® assessment.

Keep in mind as you continue reading you will identify with most of the description. There may be some points that are not right on. The type profile is not meant to be a total comprehensive, all-encompassing description of your innermost thoughts, and behaviors. You should however recognize a great deal of yourself in it.

Do not typecast yourself in your personality type either. This will not tell you what you can and can not do. This is a tool in your career toolbox to use to go forward when making decisions in your personal and professional life. It will help you rearrange how you approach tasks and which ones you focus more energy on. We all must incorporate activities daily that are outside our personality type profile’s comfort zone.