Personality Type Assessment

Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving

Your personality type profile is INFP - Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving.

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.

Action Step:

Do more often the tasks in your personal and professional life that are in your personality type profile. The goal is to rearrange your days so you are performing in your personality type profile 80% of of the time and only 20% or less of the time operating in your unnatural zone. A huge benefit is you will have energy and be able to give your full focus and often operate very efficiently even when outside your natural personality type if you are only in this unnatural zone for a brief time.

Overview

You focus on possibilities beyond what is already known and your energy on your dreams and visions. You are flexible, tolerant, and adaptable. You have very high loyalties and standards. You appear calm and seldom express the intensity of your feelings. You commonly take on to many commitments and are able to pull it off somehow. You avoid superficial socializing and like to spend time with people that are interested in understanding your goals and values.

Job Tasks and Job Features to Maximize at Work Environment

• Long range planning
• Bringing out the best in others and motivating them to do their best work
• Perceptiveness in others and what motivates them
• Identifying creative solutions to problems
• Writing
• Personally meaningful work
• Directing contact one-on-one with patients and customers
• Developing meaningful relationships with coworkers, patients and customers
• Ample time to develop depth to ideas and maintain control over process
• Private workspace with uninterrupted time while still allowing the opportunity to bounce ideas off others
• Cooperative environment without tension and conflict
• Democratic organization that people are encouraged to participate at all levels
• Opportunity to go in-depth with ideas
• Deep commitment
• Independently motivated for getting the information needed

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.

• College professor
• Writer
• Editor
• Journalist
• Behavioral disorder counselor
• Public health educator
• Educational consultant
• Holistic health practitioner
• Coach
• Counselor
• Desktop publisher
• Educational tools developer
• Employee development specialist
• Food photographer
• Web designer
• Translator

Possible Areas of Challenge

You can become out of touch with reality and your ideas may not be workable in the real world. You can overlook other’s points of view and be rigid. You have perfectionist tendencies that can cause you to refine an idea too long. You are very attached to your work and ideas such that you are often sensitive to criticism. It is hard for you to stand up for an unpopular position. Also, you have a hard time saying “no.”

Job Tasks to Minimize

• Disciplining or criticizing others
• High stress or competitive environment
• Presenting to groups before an idea is fully developed
• No control over your project
• Highly organized work and
• Need to clearly identify priorities and reprioritize regularly
• Traditional or routine work processes
• Discipline in following through in important details
• Rigid structures to processes