The MBTI® Career Report can help you with a successful career search

In Careers, MBTI, Personality Type, Resources by Jonathan Bollag, Owner and Founder

MBTI® Career Report 

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator® Career Report helps to determine your best-fit career in accordance with your personality type and provides job families and occupations that coincide with your type.  it is important to remember that the Myers-Briggs is a restricted assessment and indicator and one must be level B certified by CPP inc to administer this assessment.

The MBTI Career Report can help you in the following ways as explained in the introduction section of The Career Report developed by Allen H. Hammer:

The Career Report can help you:

  • Identify job families, or broad occupational categories, to help get you started in your career search
  • Choose a specific job or career
  • Select a college major or course of study
  • Identify strengths and potential weaknesses of your type for the career search process
  • Increase your job satisfaction
  • Make a career transition or shift
  • Plan your career development strategy and action steps

The job families used in The MBTI Career Report are based on The O’Net system of occupational classification developed by The U.S. Department of Labor. This is a valuable source and can be used to search occupations, allowing visitors of The O’Net Online website to acquire information such as required skills, education, related interests (Strong Interest Inventory code related), work styles, wages, employment trends, work activities, and related occupations, as well as future growth and employment outlook. This tool can be found at www.onetonline.org. Look for the “Occupation Quick Search” box in the upper right hand corner of The O’Net Online Home Page to search for occupations of interest to you.

As a summary, you will receive the following information from your results of The MBTI Career Report. We will review each section in this blog as laid out particularly in The Career Report published by CPP inc. Your Career Report consist of the following sections:

  • The summary of your results
  • How your personality type affects your career choice
  • How your personality type affects your career exploration
  • How your  personalitytype affects your career development
  • Job families and occupations for your type
  • Most popular occupations
  • Least popular occupations

The summary of your results

The summary of your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator results includes an explanation of your four preferred personality preferences. For example, one might be an INTJ personality, whereas your Introversion, Thinking, Intuitive, and Judging preferences would be explained and discussed in your Career Report Summary. After which, your preference clarity index, or what is referred to as your PCI is discussed. This is the portion of your results that tells you and your professional how “clear” you are regarding your personality type. Meaning, when completing your personality assessment how close your results were to being scored completely toward one particular personality type as opposed to being moderately sure of your personality type. It is of the utmost importance to discuss your results with a professional, and when you are moderately sure, or a little unsure of your results, it is even more important to discuss your results with a said professional.

How your personality type affects your career choice

This section of your MBTI Career Report includes:

  • Your preferred Work Tasks
  • Your Preferred Work Environment
  • Personalized Action Steps to take during your career search

How your personality type affects your career exploration

This section of your MBTI Career Report includes:

  • How your personality type strengths can help during your career search
  • Challenges you might incur during your career search in accordance with your personality type
  • Suggested strategies on how to deal with these strategies
  • Personalized action steps to take in regards to your particular strengths and challenges

How your personality type affects your career development

This section of your MBTI Career Report includes:

  • What career development strengths your personality type has helped you develop
  • Challenges in accordance with your career development you incur
  • Suggested strategies on how to deal with these challenges
  • Action steps to take in career development in accordance with your personality type

Job families and occupations for your type

This section of your MBTI Career Reportconsists of 22 occupational categories and specific jobs that relate to your particular personality type. The job families listed are ranked in popularity in accordance with people like you who share your same personality. This is probably the most helpful and straightforward section of The Career Report and is of great value. These jobs are listed from “most attractive” for someone of your personality type, to “least attractive” for someone like you. This list of “likes” or “dislikes” of occupations took into account a large and reliable sample size of 92,000 people, over 8,000 who share your personality type.

Most and least popular occupations

This next section includes a list of 24 of the most popular occupations for those people who fall within the category of your personality type, followed by a list of least popular occupations. These lists can be very useful as they provide you with a focal point whereas to review occupations that you will most likely enjoy and therefore may very well succeed.

In closing, The MBTI Career Report is an invaluable tool and can truly help you along the way to a successful and happy career. It has been tested for accuracy and efficiency and has been proven for effectiveness in the career guidance process.  To get your MBTI Career Report, check it out on our Career Assessment Page.

Thank you for reading today and remember to achieve and acquire personal and professional success each and everyday!