Personality Type Assessment

Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging

Your personality type profile is INTJ - Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging.

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 are a perfectionist in that you are driven to accomplish things using your typically high standard vision for the outcome. You are demanding of yourself and even those around you. You prefer to do things your own way and are skeptical, decisive and determined even in the face of opposition. You are a natural brainstormer and work well with complex and global concepts. You see with clarity the benefits and flaws of a situation. You invest incredible concentration, focus, energy and drive into your own projects and ideas.

Job Tasks and Job Features to Maximize at Work Environment

• Brainstorming
• Translating systems into real substance
• High expectations and standards
• Independently working
• Strategic planning
• Conceptualizing many sides to the issue
• Designing solutions to real or hypothetical problems
• Architect of change
• Innovation
• Complex, theoretical ideas
• Intellectually stimulating, especially with new information
• Tasks and projects are brought to completion
• Improving existing systems
• Applying innovative solutions to existing problems
• Independently working with periodic interactions with a small group of intellectual people
• Produce a product that meets high standards of quality
• Is given credit for ideas and control over their implementation
• High degree of autonomy and control
• Judged by uniform and fair standards
• Working with other conscientious people whose expertise and intelligence are respected
• Focus and concentrate deeply on issues

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.

• Personal financial advisor
• Network and computer systems administrator
• Computer software engineer, applications
• Web developer
• Business analyst
• Desktop publishing specialist
• Business owner, data focused not people focused
• Database administrator
• Information services developer
• Teacher: university, computer, science, math
• Archivist
• Surgeon
• Cardiovascular technician
• Graphic designer
• Writer/Editorial writer
• Inventor
• Informational graphics designer
• Business administrator
• Food service director
• Military nutrition care director

Possible Areas of Challenge

You do not care how you measure up to other’s standards. You often do not encourage input or challenging viewpoints from others. You like to do things yourself and not ask for help or delegate tasks. Because of your independence and high standard solutions you often overlook or miss important realities and facts applicable to the present. Some regard you as stubborn and controlling. It is hard for you to accomplish a balance between work and personal life. You tend to overemphasize work life to the detriment of home life.

Job Tasks to Minimize

• Lots of delegation
• Requiring solicitation and consideration of other’s input
• Communicating complex ideas to laypersons
• Tactfulness, diplomacy and gentle delivery in giving recommendations
• Meeting minimum standards
• Lack of work boundaries as workaholics are common in this personality
• Repetitive execution of factual and detail-oriented tasks
• Judged on personality standards
• Appreciation and praise for other employees and colleagues
• Working with or for others considered less competent
• Focusing on performing at standard and not excelling and improving
• Abundance of social “niceties”