Personality Type Assessment

Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving

Your personality type profile is ISTP - Introverted, Sensing, 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 straightforward, honest, and pragmatic and prefer action to conversation. You have a great understanding of how things work due to your pragmatic approach. You are analytical preferring to work with your hands since you have an innate ability to know mechanically how things work. You appear cool and aloof to others, except with good friends. You function on impulse adapting well to challenges and problems. You have a lover to action oriented activities.

Job Tasks and Job Features to Maximize at Work Environment

• Adapting to challenges and change
• Action-orientation
• Recalling facts and understanding them
• Working with hands
• Efficient utilization of resources
• Making analyses
• Mastery of mechanical skills or using tools
• Troubleshooting and problem solving
• Common-sense and practical approach
• Clear directions and expectations
• Lacking excessive rules or standards
• Independent work or alongside those you respect with minimal supervision

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.

• Firefighter
• Paralegal
• Computer support/repair technician
• Product safety engineer
• Computer network consultant
• Mechanical engineer
• Radiologist
• Researcher in areas with high degree of lab or onsite testing
• Flight engineer
• Food scientist
• Food photographer
• Food taster

Possible Areas of Challenge

You can keep important issues to yourself because you are private. You have difficulty sharing your reactions, feelings and concerns with others because it may seem unnecessary. Your strength in efficiency can lead to cutting corners. Since you are easily bored your actions can be reckless and focused on excitement and not centered on the goal of the activity.

Job Tasks to Minimize

• Analytical without hands on opportunities
• Long-range planning
• Repetition
• Conceptualizing opportunities that do not exist at that moment
• Deadline oriented work
• Sticking to a project from start until completion
• Working with many people and little independent working
• Excessive rules or standards
• Highly structure environment with lots of routines and procedures