Using Personality Inventories for Career Decisions

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Much of the efforts of the work force today are focused around the use of teams and groups to achieve the goals necessary to fulfil your job requirements. The theory is that people tend to work at their best is when they are around people with common interest. One of the most common methods to judge these interest is through the Myers Briggs and the Strong Interest Inventory. One reason why I took this inventory was not because that it was required, but it actually gave confirmation to what I was already contemplating on. Choosing a major is a difficult task, and the career that you do choose may turn out to be the wrong decision. Essentially, both of the inventories helped me reevaluate my life, and help me see myself fifteen years from now. …show more content…

This Is very accurate with my interest because being an investigative person has interest in science, medicine, and research. Also, I enjoy working with others, and helping other people. This inventory was able to reassure that my career choices were not wrongs, and they were able to give me options within my field, that I may have not though of before. Science, Medical Science, Culinary, Athletic Medicine, and religion and spirituality were my top five career interest. All of the courses regarding sciences, and medicine fall within the code that I was given, but culinary and religion are the outliers in my career choices. I enjoy culinary not as a profession, but as a hobby. Religion is interesting to me and I love to learn new things about different religions. According to the strong interest inventory my personal preferences say that I prefer a balance of working alone and working with people, I learn things through lectures and book, I prefer leading by example, and lastly I prefer not to take any …show more content…

We tend to take things in intuitively. Our secondary mode is internal, where we deal with things according to how we feel about them, or how they fit in with our personal value system. I am an extroverted person, I am a warm, enthusiastic person. I love to live in a world of possibilities, and I tend to become very passionate and excited about things. My enthusiasm lends me to be able to inspire and motivate others. I am able to talk my way out of anything. I enjoy life, seeing it as a special gift, and strive to make the most out of it. ENFPs have an unusually broad range of skills and talents. They are good at most things which interest them. My clearest preference was that I am an individual who is very extroverted. I always considered myself to be introverted, because I felt I was very quite, and did my own things. I believe the Myers Brigg was able to help me realize that I am actually a very out going

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