learning about your personality type your career development

LEARNING ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE YOUR CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Learning Objectives Gain an understanding of your unique strengths and weaknesses Learn about other personality types Understand and appreciate differences in the workplace Your Career Development (resources)

History of Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment Dr. Carl Jung - study of human personality Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers- expanded on Jungs work by developing an instrument to help people identify their preferences. The MBTI tool is an indicator of personality type (i.e. innate preferences) that has proven to be remarkably reliable and valid. After their assessment (MBTI), others followed, including the Do What You Are Dr. Carl Jung (1875 1961)

Preference Exercise Write your name!

Extraversion IntroversionWhere do you prefer to focus your attention and get your energy? Sensing IntuitionHow do you prefer to take in information? Thinking FeelingHow do you make decisions? Judging PerceivingHow do you like to organize your life? Four MBTI Dichotomies

Where do you focus your attention? Where do you get Energy? Extraversion (E) vs Introversion (I)

Extraverts - energized by the outer world of action Are energized by people Lose energy if they spend too much time alone Prefer to communicate by talking (phone or in person) Have many close friends Are sociable and expressive Enjoy working in groups Introverts - energized by the inner world of understanding Are energized by spending time alone Lose energy if they spend too much time with people Prefer to communicate in writing Have 2 or 3 close friends Are private and reserved Enjoy working alone or in pairs Self-scoring

Sensing (S) Focus on experience Often seen as being practical and realistic Focus on the present use the 5 senses Operate in the Here and Now Prefer details and facts Trust experience Exact and specific and like order and sequence Realistic and practical Intuition (N) Focus on the meaning behind the experience Often seen as creative and imaginative Think about the possibilities and what could be 6 th sense Operate in the future Value imagination Trust inspiration See trends and patterns in specific data Idealistic and big picture How do you prefer to take in information?

S/N What do you see in this picture? What do think about?

How do you make decisions? Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)

Thinking Decisions based on logic Control their emotions, value objective criteria Are often seen by others to be business-like and fair Solve problems with logic and reasoning Want everyone treated equally Feeling Decisions based on feelings Express their emotions, value harmony Are often seen by others to be compassionate Solve problems with attention to feelings and impact on others Want everyone treated as an individual Self-scoring

How do you like to organize your life? Judging (J) Prefer a planned workplace Perceiving (P) Prefer a spontaneous workplace OR

Judging Like to have some kind of schedule Are scheduled/organized (like to do lists) Change is difficult to handle Like to finish things Try to avoid last-minute stresses; finish tasks well before deadline Are seen by others to be organized Perceiving Likes flexibility Able to go with the flow Change is exciting Like to start things Feel energized by last-minute pressures; finish tasks at the deadline Are seen by others to be spontaneous Self-scoring

Identify your personality Type! Review strengths and weaknesses of your OWN type

Group Activities Describe your ideal work environment/setting. What can Es and Is do to understand each other better? E/I

Group Activities Your boss asks you to write a 5-year strategic plan about the company, but he doesnt give you any detail on the format/length of the document. What does your plan look like? What can Ss and Ns do to understand each other better? S/N

Group Activities You work full-time and you are about to leave your office at the end of the day. Your boss comes in and asks you to present on X topic tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m., at the weekly meeting with the entire staff. What will you do to prepare? What can Js and Ps do to understand each other better? J/P

Group Activities You work in a small firm as the Human Resources Manager and your boss tells you that, to cut costs, you need to terminate one of the two administrative assistants. How do go about making your decision? What can Ts and Fs do to understand each other better? T/F

MBTI Types Visit our website for more information on the 16 personality types! Follow this path: http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/career_assessmen ts/MBTI_Profile.html http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/career_assessmen ts/MBTI_Profile.html http://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.htmlhttp://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html ENFJ INTP ISTP ESFJ

Resources What Can I do With My Major In...: http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/where_do_i_start/what_can_i_do_ with_my_major/Default.html http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/where_do_i_start/what_can_i_do_ with_my_major/Default.html O*Net - http://www.onetonline.org/ http://www.onetonline.org/ Diversity in the Job Search: http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/diversity_resources.html http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/diversity_resources.html Internship Resources - http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/job_resources/links_job_search_tool s.html http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/job_resources/links_job_search_tool s.html

Specific Links by Major American Management Association - http://www.amanet.org/ http://www.amanet.org/ American Marketing Association - http://www.marketingpower.com/Pages/default.aspx http://www.marketingpower.com/Pages/default.aspx Public Relations Student Society of America - http://www.prssa.org/ http://www.prssa.org/ Jobs In Sports - http://www.jobsinsports.com/ http://www.jobsinsports.com/ Human Resources - http://www.shrm.org/Pages/default.aspx http://www.shrm.org/Pages/default.aspx Finance - http://www.careers-in-finance.com/cbskill.htmhttp://www.careers-in-finance.com/cbskill.htm IS/IA - http://www.dice.com/http://www.dice.com/

RowdyJobs http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/ Learn about current openings Learn about events (i.e. Career Fairs) and on-campus recruiting Use Mentor Database Use www.vault.com and other websiteswww.vault.com

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