Personality and Careers

Topic

• • Contextual Awareness

    • Description

      • Understanding the range of expectations and structure of college coursework

    • Next steps

      • Use advising and career services to learn about school and work expectations

      • Interview people (i.e. family, friends, alumni) in careers that interest you most

      • Use sources such as O*Net or the US Dept of Labor Occupational Handbook to learn about jobs and academic requirements for careers you might like

      • Consider how your academic plan relates to your career plans

Lesson

• Myers-Briggs Type

  • Personality Tests (take any one)

    • Golden Personality (in MSSL)

    • Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test™

    • 16 Personalities

  • Related Resources

    • Personality Type Explained

      • Identity: Assertive vs. Turbulent

    • How frequent is my type?

      • It's okay to be you

    • Humanmetrics Career Choices

• Other Personality Tests and Resources

  • Career Coach

  • O*NET Interest Profiler

  • Additional Personality Tests from celebritytypes.com

  • You Just Get Me

  • Big Five

  • True Colors

    • Slides

    • Exploration

    • Values, Majors, and Careers

    • FAQ’s on Myers Briggs and True Colors

    • Are You In the Right Job for You?

    • The True Colors Top Ten Christmas Gift Ideas Guide

  • BLS OOH

Additional Resources

• Career Stories

  • Do a Google search with your 4 letter type and/or your career interest and then site:www.16personalities.com/career-stories

    • Examples (you can highlight, right click, and choose "Search Google for..." then modify with your own information

      • intj site:www.16personalities.com/career-stories

      • nurse site:www.16personalities.com/career-stories

      • nurse and intj site:www.16personalities.com/career-stories

• Volunteer Match

• Discover the Work You Were Born to Do

• TED Talk The power of introverts