Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

(MBTI)

Goals for this workshop:

History of MBTI

Review your MBTI Results

Complete My Best Fit Worksheet

verify your true type

Review personality type handouts

provide career options chosen by your type

Understanding MBTI.

You can and should have a career you love

The secret to loving your work.

do what you naturally enjoy most

Understanding MBTI.

To find out what work you would love, you need to

know yourself

One way of know yourself is through personality

assessments

MBTI
Personality Dimensions

History of MBTI

one of the most widely used self-report inventories

based upon Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jungs (1875-1961) notion

of psychological types

He believed that differences between people are not random,

instead they form patterns types

The MBTI was first developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her
mother, Katherine Cook Briggs in 1943

Why do we use it?

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Knowing your preferences could enable you to find

satisfaction in your career and better understand
other people

Psychological Type

Is NOT about skills, intelligence, abilities, or expertise

Does NOT tell you what you should or can do

.and what you shouldn't or cant do

People are influenced by more than their Type

environment
culture
education and training
interests and motivations

Activity # 1

The MBTI Connection

Your PREFERRED hand
Feels natural, you didnt think about it, it was effortless,
looks neat and legible
Your NONPREFERRED hand
Feels unnatural, had to concentrate, was awkward,
looks childlike

The MBTI
Measures your preferences on four different scales

Extraversion

How do you prefer to

direct and get energy?

Introversion

Sensing

How do you prefer to take

in information?

INtuition

Thinking

How do you prefer to

make decisions?

Feeling

Judging

How do you prefer to live

your life everyday?

Perceiving

There is no right or wrong to MBTI results

Each preference and type identifies valuable
human behaviours

Verifying Your Results

Using the sheet My Best Fit Worksheet, fill in your
preferences after we discuss each of the scales

Please keep in mind

While both kinds of preferences are necessary and
used by all people, each of us instinctively tends to
favor one over the other

Extrovert / Introvert
Where do you get your energy from?

Extrovert / Introvert

Direct energy mostly to

the people and things in
the outside world

Direct energy mostly to

the ideas in their minds

Work out ideas by

talking them through

Work out ideas by

reflecting on them

Extrovert / Introvert

Find that they are easily

distracted by what is
going on around them

Find that they can

concentrate for long
periods of time

May like to be involved

in many activities

May like to focus on

one activity in depth and
dislike interruptions

Extrovert / Introvert

When at work

prefer lots of people

prefer working alone

one-to-one people

contact
out-of-office activities
variety in their tasks

At parties
Tend to stay late
increasing amounts of

energy

When at work
contact
continuity and
concentration

At parties
tend to leave early
decreased energy

Extrovert / Introvert
Learn best through
doing or discussing

Learn best by reflection,

mental practice

Have broad interests

Focus in depth on their

interests

Readily take initiative in

work and relationships

Take initiative when the

situation or issue is very
important to them

Extrovert / Introvert

Are ENERGIZED by
lots of action, people
and things

Lots of action, people

and things DRAINS
their energy

Acts first, thinks later

Thinks first, acts later

Which one would you say you prefer?

E or I?
Write it on your sheet

Sensing / INtuition
How do you prefer to take in information?

Sensing / INtuition
Activity #2
(picture)

Sensing / INtuition
Are

often seen as..

Are

often seen as

realistic

imaginative

Practical

Insightful

good at grasping

good at grasping the

facts and details

big picture

Sensing / INtuition

Focus more on the

present

Focus more on the

future

Often patient and

careful with precise
work and routine, want
to master a skill

Often patient in projects

with many intangibles
and possibilities, enjoy
new ways of doing
things

Sensing / INtuition

Factual and concrete

Imaginative and verbally

creative

Observe and remember

specifics

Remember specifics
when they relate to a
pattern
Trust inspiration

Trust experience

Which one would you say you prefer?

S or N?
Write it on your sheet

Thinking / Feeling
How do you prefer to make
decisions?

Thinking / Feeling

Prefer to understand
experience through
logical thinking

Prefer to understand
experience in the
context of human
relationships

Analytical

Empathetic

Thinking / Feeling

Use cause-and-effect
reasoning

Guided by personal
values

Solve problems with

logic

Assess impacts of
decisions on people

Reasonable

Compassionate

Thinking / Feeling
Seek

Seek

objective truth

harmony

fairness

cooperation

regardless of effects

sometimes ignoring

may be seen as firm

the consequences
may be seen as
warm and
understanding

Thinking / Feeling

Can be tough-minded

May appear
tenderhearted

Fair want everyone

treated equally

Fair wants everyone

treated as an individual

Decides with the heart

Decides with the head

Which one would you say you prefer?

T or F?
Write it on your sheet

Judging / Perceiving
How do you prefer to live everyday life?

Judging / Perceiving

Value order, structure,

predictability

Like the completion of

a task (check it off the
list)

Value spontaneity and

the challenge of
dealing with the
unexpected

Dont want to rush

closure

Judging / Perceiving
Finish

tasks

Finish

tasks

well before a

at the deadline

deadline
check it off the list

have a last-minute

rush of adrenaline to
complete the task

Judging / Perceiving

Organize their lives

Flexible

Systematic

Casual

Methodical

Open-ended

Make short and longterm plans

Adapt, change course

easily

Judging / Perceiving

Likes to have things

decided

Like things loose and

open to change

Try to avoid last minute

stresses

Feel energized by lastminute pressures

Which one would you say you prefer?

J or P?
Write it on your sheet

MBTI Card Game

Clear off a space in front of you

Keep the worksheet out

You will fill in each space in the card game line

TypeFocus

You will now receive your results from the TypeFocus

assessment that you took during your intake session

Write the four letters on your sheet

Are they different?

MBTI Results
Now you will get the results of your MBTI assessment
It may be the same or different from what you have on
your worksheet

MBTI Results
Take a moment find and read your preference type (s)
on the back of the results sheets
Complete the My Best Fit section of the worksheet
once you have verified your decision

Thinking / Feeling
Activity #3
(Who stays, Who goes?)

Judging / Perceiving
Activity #4
(Plan a Trip)

PREFERENCES AND CAREERS

EXTRAVERTS

INTROVERTS

Are attracted to careers

Are attracted to career

where action and

interaction are important

business
sales / marketing
personal services
food services
public relations
government

where ideas are

important
college teaching
science research
library work
computers
mechanical work
electronics
engineering

SENSING

INTUITIVE

Are attracted to careers

Are attracted to careers

where production,

management of a business
or service is important

Construction
office details and
accounting
patient care
police and military
similar hands-on activities
to solve immediate
problems

where communication or

theory are important

Counselling
Journalism
Teaching
writing and art
Religion
Science
Research
law
long-range planning in
business or policy
development

THINKING

FEELING

Attracted to careers

Attracted to careers

skilled trades and crafts

science and technology
computers
production
management
law
police
criminal justice work

teaching
health care
clerical and office work
personal and human
services
communication
entertainment
counselling
ministry

JUDGING

PERCEIVING

Attracted to work settings

Attracted to work
settings

where plans, system,

order, and deadlines are

important
tasks where they can
assume responsibility

where change,

flexibility and
innovation are
important
tasks where they can
work independently

MBTI and Careers

Supplemental information provided
About your preference type
Possible career occupations

Highlight occupations to research

Questions?
Comments?
Concerns?

Thank you!