PERSONS AND

CAREERS
By: GROUP 4
 CAREER

THE 16 PERSONALITY
TYPES

CONTENTS
QUIZ
CAREER
 CAREER
• According to Kinance (2004), a career is a job that someone enjoys and feels
skilled at, believing they can do it for a long time. It's about finding
something you're passionate about. When teenagers pick a career, they
consider what excites them about a job, their skills, and how they envision
themselves in the working world. This lesson talks about the personal factors
that influence career choices, such as personality, interests, and how they
perceive different jobs based on gender.
 PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
• An individual's health is a factor that matters in career choice. How
healthy a person is, physically and mentally will determine the career
or job he goes for. Furthermore, some occupations (like the regimental
ones) require a display of strengths in the recruitment into the police,
army, and paramilitary occupation.
 INTELECTUAL FACTORS
• Intelligence which refers to the mental ability of an individual is
also very important. A person's intelligent quotient is considerable in
career choice. There are more professional courses like medicine, law
and engineering with cut-off points that are so high and takes only the
bright ones to enter into the occupation of their dreams.
 APTITUDE

• This refers to the special ability within a person that helps

him perform well in a given area of study. In a nutshell, the
individual has to consider his fitness and readiness to do a
job before making career choices.
 INTEREST
• An individual's preference in a particular occupation as against the
others is the vocation interest. However, it has been found that men in
particular occupations have characteristics, set of likes and dislikes
which differentiate them from men in other occupation. Thus, it is
important for any young person to discover early what his preferences
are and to work towards them. Also, it is noted that interest changes
much before adulthood, they become more stable as the individual
matures in age.
 NEED AND VALUES
• The worth an individual attaches to something refers to as values. Worth here
includes respect, money and status. People are committed to some occupations because
they lack something which as of present will help them gain job satisfaction. This
something lacked may be influenced by someone who quest for power and influence
will choose a political career to meet his need. It was suggested that one's values
influence those who seek careers in humanities, education and law while career
choices in medicine, engineering, physical science and business influence the
person's values.
 SELF CONCEPT
• This refers to the way an individual perceives of himself, how he/she evaluates
himself and how he feels others evaluate him/her. Individuals select careers that
they perceive as falling in line with their self-concept. Young people who have low
self-concept have high preferences for occupation like farming while those with
high self-concept prefer professionally oriented occupation.
 PERSONALITY FACTORS

• Although some personality characteristics like self-concept and interest have been
discussed, there are still other personality variables that influence career choice.
Generally, people choose vocations to reflect their personality traits. Introverts
usually find themselves choosing careers that are not people-oriented, while
extroverts select careers that enable them to work with people.
THE 16 PERSONALITY TYPES
• ISTJ: Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging

• ISFJ: Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging

• INFJ: Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging

• INTJ: Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging

• ISTP: Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving

• ISFP: Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving

• INFP: Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving

INTP: Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving

ESTP: Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving

ESFP: Extraverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving

ENFP: Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving

ENTP: Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving

ESTJ: Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging

ESFJ: Extraverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging

ENFJ: Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging

ENTJ: Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging