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!
