Personality Type Assessment

Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving

Your personality type profile is INTP - Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, 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 are a brilliant conceptual problem solver. You are intensely intellectual and logical mixed with imagination. You have a strong drive for personal competence and set extremely high standards for yourself. You also enjoy challenging those around you in order that they become more competent. You are highly independent and enjoy organizing concepts.

Job Tasks and Job Features to Maximize at Work Environment

• Speculative and imaginative activities
• Conceptual problem solving
• Critical eye and precision to the tasks
• Original thinking
• Working with other highly intellectual people
• Interacting with a small group of coworkers of whom are highly respected and competent in their work
• Focus is on improving and organizing processes and not managing people
• Interacting occasionally with other highly successful and powerful people
• Flexible and unstructured environment without mundane rules, excessive limitation and unnecessary meetings
• See many sides to the same issue
• Look for possibilities
• Designing solutions for real or hypothetical problems
• Innovation, taking risks
• Independent work with plenty of quiet time to concentrate
• Setting own high standards and determine how my performance with be evaluated
• Analyses in a logical fashion
• Focus on the process over the end product
• Deals with complex problems
• Learning new things
• Ability to see big picture, to see implications of actions and ideas

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.

• Entrepreneur of processes
• Network systems and data communications analyst or administrator
• Computer software engineer, systems and applications
• Pharmacist
• Biophyicist
• College faculty administrator
• Scientist chemistry/biology
• Physicist
• Nutrition researcher: medical sciences
• Internet architect
• Engineer
• Marketer
• Translator

Possible Areas of Challenge

Your logical approach can overlook what matters to others on the project. You find flaws in projects and easily forget to also mention the strengths or give appreciation. A minor flaw can bog you down to the extent that the entire project is brought to a halt. Your critical thinking skills slip frequently to the people around you and can product unintended hurtfulness. Routine details are hard for you to follow-through with and can result in noncompletion of a project.

Job Tasks to Minimize

• Projects consisting of a large number of routine and repetitive tasks
• Coworkers that require lots of attention and appreciation for their efforts
• Highly structured environments where processes and policies are not to be challenged
• Inefficient or incompetent coworkers
• Highly organized work
• Communicating complex ideas to laypersons
• Importance in attending to and following through on details
• Rigid structures and people
• Interaction with large numbers of people regularly