Careers for INTJ Personality Types

Whether you're a young adult trying to find your place in the world, or a not-so-
young adult trying to find out if you're moving along the right path, it's important to
understand yourself and the personality traits that will impact your likeliness to
succeed or fail at various careers. It's equally important to understand what is
really important to you. When armed with an understanding of your strengths and
weaknesses, and an awareness of what you truly value, you are in an excellent
position to pick a career which you will find rewarding.
INTJs generally have the following traits:
Able to absorb extremely complex theoretical and complex
material
Driven to create order and structure from theoretical abstractions
Supreme strategists
Future-oriented
See the global, "big picture"
Strong insights and intuitions, which they trust implicitly
Value their own opinions over others
ove di!cult theoretical challenges
"ored when dealing with mundane routine
Value #nowledge and e!ciency
$ave no patience with ine!ciency and confusion
$ave very high standards for performance, which they apply to
themselves most strongly
%eserved and detached from others
&alm, collected and analytical
'xtremely logical and rational
(riginal and independent
)atural leaders, but will follow those they can fully support
&reative, ingenious, innovative, and resourceful
*or# best alone, and prefer to wor# alone
More so than any other personality type, I!"s are #rilliant when it comes to
grasping complex theories and applying them to pro#lems to come up with long-
term strategies. $ince this type of %strategi&ing% is the central focus and drive of
the I!", there is a happy match #etween desire and a#ility in this type.
'ccordingly, the I!" is happiest and most effective in careers which allow this
type of processing, and which promote an environment in which the I!" is given
a lot of autonomy over their daily lives.
INTJ Careers
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!elecommunications security
Management consultant.
computer+information services, marketing,
reorgani&ation
*conomist
International #anker
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,inancial planner
Investment #anker
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$cientist+scientific researcher
-omputer systems analyst
!echnician. electrical+electronic
3esign engineer
'stronomer
-omputer programmer
*nvironmental planner
(iomedical researcher+engineer
-omputer systems analyst
7perations research analyst
Information services developer
$oftware and systems researcher and
developer
Information services 8 new #usiness
developer
etwork integration specialist
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!eacher. university
'cademic curriculum designer
'dministrator
Mathematician
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/sychiatrist
/sychologist
eurologist
(iomedical engineer
-ardiologist
/harmacologist
/harmaceutical researcher
(iomedical researcher
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'ttorney. administrative+litigator
Management consultant
$trategic planner
Investment+#usiness analyst
Manager
"udge
ews analyst+writer
*ngineer
Metallurgical engineer
Intellectual properties attorney
-ivil engineer
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Writer+editorial writer
'rtist
Inventor
3esigner
'rchitect
)niversal design architect
Informational-graphics designer
,reelance media planner
*ditor+art director
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