Business Insider reports that 80 percent of the Fortune 500, and 89 of Fortune 100 companies, use the MBTI test with their employees and candidates. The goal is to find the ideal employees and help them succeed at work. Here is a career list for the 16 types according to MyersBriggs.org and the Career Assessment Site:
1. ISTJ
Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. They decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily.
Ideal professions: Accountant, Mechanic ,Technician, Civil Engineer, Environmental Science & Protection Tech, Security Guard, Supervisor, Tax Examiner, Revenue Agent, Transportation Inspector.
2. ISFJ
Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. They notice and remember specifics about people.
Ideal professions: Court Clerk, Dietitians & Nutritionists, File Clerk, Insurance Claims Clerk, Insurance Policy Processing Clerks, License Practical & Vocational Nurse, Medical Records Technician, Typist.
3. INFJ
Sensitive, creative, insightful, committed to values. Love working with language and symbols. Seek meaning and connection to understand what motivates people. Want to serve the common good.
Ideal professions: Clinical Psychologist, Writer, Dentist, Desktop Publishing, Editor, Educational / Guidance Counselor, Fashion Designer, Graphic Designer, Healthcare Social Worker, and Pediatrician.
4. INTJ
They have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent.
Ideal professions: Anesthesiologist, Electronics Engineers, Biochemist, Industrial Engineers, Biologist, Information Security Analysts, Chemical Engineers, Lawyer, Computer Programmer, Surgeon.
5. ISTP
Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers, quickly plans of ways to solve problems. They organize facts and analyze large amounts of data, figure out what makes things work, the core of problems.
Ideal professions: Agricultural Inspector, Automotive Master Mechanic, Avionics Technician, Civil Engineering Technician, Construction Inspector, Repairer, Forest Worker, Driver.
6. ISFP
Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. They enjoy the present moment. Like to have their own space and to work within their own time frame. Loyal and committed to their values and to people who are important to them. Dislike disagreements and conflicts.
Ideal professions: Bill Collector, Accounting, Auditing, Cashier, Medical Transcriptionist, Nursing Assistant, Packaging & Filling Machine Operators, Pharmacy Technician, Physical Therapy.
7. INFP
Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened.
Ideal professions: Audiovisual Specialist, Broadcast Tech, Artist, Film/Video Editor, Proofreader, Food Preparation Worker, Maid, Housekeeping Cleaner, Occupational Therapist, Technical Writer.
8. INTP
Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, skeptical, analytical and adaptable. Ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest.
Ideal professions: Risk Professional, Arbitrators, Mediators, Archivist, Art Director, Food Science Tech, Geographer, Geoscientist, Librarian, Network and Computer Systems.
9. ESTP
Flexible, tolerant, take pragmatic approach, focus on immediate results. Theories bore them, they act energetically to solve the problem, spontaneous. Enjoy material comforts. Learn best through doing.
Ideal professions: Automotive Technician, Construction Laborer, Counter clerk, Electrician, Farm Managers, Firefighters, Freight Handler, Loan Officer, Restaurant Cook.
10. ESFP
Outgoing, friendly, and accepting. Exuberant lovers of life, people, and material comforts. Enjoy working with others to make things happen. Bring common sense and a realistic approach to their work, and make work fun. Flexible and spontaneous, adapt readily to new people and environments.
Ideal professions: Barista, Billing, Rate Clerks, Dental Hygienist, Mail Clerk and Mail Machine Operator, Medical Assistant, Nanny, Radiation Therapist.
11. ENFP
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want affirmation and readily give appreciation.
Ideal professions: Counseling Psychologist, Director of Religious Activities/Education, Fitness Trainer, Hairstylist, Cosmetologist, Psychiatrist, Public Relations Specialist, Rehabilitation Counselor
12. ENTP
Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people.
Ideal professions: Advertising, Economist, Financial Analyst, Food Scientist, General Manager, Human Resources, Health & Safety Engineering, Examiner/Investigator, Insurance Sales Agent.
13. ESTJ
Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible..
Ideal professions: Auditor, Commercial Pilot, Machine Repairer, Construction Manager, Correctional Officer, Criminal Investigator, Home Health Aide, Personal Financial Advisor, Police & Fire & Ambulance Dispatcher, Sheriff.
14. ESFJ
Warmhearted, conscientious, and cooperative. Want harmony, work with determination. Like to work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. Loyal, follow through. Notice what others need in their day-by-day lives and try to provide it.
Ideal professions: Hotel Clerk, Kindergarten Teacher, Event Planner, Personal/Home Care Aide, Radiologic Tech, Receptionist/Information Clerk, Registered Nurse, Secretary, Teacher Asst.
15. ENFJ
Warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential.
Ideal professions: Child Care Worker, Clergy, Customer Service Rep, Dental Asst, Executive Secretary or Administrative Assistant, Health Educator, Host or Hostess, Interior Designer, Loan Counselors.
16. ENTJ
Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems.
Ideal professions: Architect, Engineer, Chef, Computer and Information Systems Managers, Electrical Engineer, Emergency Management Director, Epidemiologist, Market Research Analyst, Pharmacist.
Source: www.myersbriggs.org & careerassessmentsite.com
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