
### Preferred work environment

- Offers opportunities to work with people who are experts in their field
- Is on the cutting edge or innovative
- Provides opportunities to work on complex problems
- Is hard driving and achievement oriented
- Challenges people intellectually

### How type affects career exploration

How you go about exploring career options will be influenced by your INTJ preferences. Your type will help you in your career exploration activities in distinct ways, just as it may present some distinct challenges for you.

An INTJ tends to find career satisfaction with careers that have the following characteristics:

- Involves analysis, creativity, knowledge, and focus
- Challenges their intellect
- Encourages innovative thinking and revolutionary ideas
- Gives the time and freedom to put their ideas into practice
- Provides an opportunity for continuous learning and creative problem solving
- Ensures full control over completing a project to meet their high standards
- Allows them to create change that promotes system and people efficiency
- Provides an opportunity to work with intelligent and competent colleagues
- Involves a limited amount of routine
- Provides compensation that is based on what they have done and their diligence in completing the task

When exploring career options, an INTJ will often

- Set various long-term career goals and create an action plan
- Create or design their own career
- Need to be open to tailoring their plan if obstacles arise or alternative plans are required
- Research jobs and their future outlook but may neglect considering specific aspects of a career
- Use an objective approach to evaluate the pros and cons of each potential career

### How type affects career development

The career development process will be influenced by INTJ preferences. Career development almost always involves coping with new demands that do not come naturally to you and often requires working and communicating with people with different preferences. At times, career change can be a beneficial stimulus to further development of your type. Type development means knowing and accepting your natural preferences and then consciously choosing to use nonpreferred preferences in certain situations when appropriate. Listed below are some typical strengths of and challenges faced by INTJs, as well as some suggestions for development.

During their job search, an ESTJ will often:

- Develop a creative job search plan that sets them apart from the competition
- Compile information on the industry or company and tailor their personal application to these trends
- When appropriate or necessary, design their own job
- Need to remember to pay attention to the uninteresting details of their job search
- Benefit from expanding their networking group
- Need to maintain their energy and motivation throughout the job search
- Need to remember to stay open to job offers and potentially negotiate the unappealing aspects of a position
- Need to look at all aspects of a job and consider their personal values when making a decision

During an interview, an INTJ will often:

- Display confidence but should be cautious not to appear arrogant
- Have a tendency to undersell their abilities and appear impersonal or distant
- Need to remember to present their immediate contributions to the organizations in addition to their potential contributions
- Need to be open to discussing their ideas and accepting criticism
- Need to ensure they display an eager attitude for the job

### INTJ and work

At work, the INTJ will often:

- Be organized, confident, productive, and committed
- Look at the big picture and see how things are connected
- Be focused on the task and understand what can be accomplished
- Have a vision for the organizations potential
- Set long-term goals and determine the process to meet those goals
- Enjoy challenging, theoretical, or conceptual work
- Have high standards for all involved in a project
- Objectively examine issues and create workplace systems
- Make future predictions and evaluate the overall impact of their ideas
- Prefer autonomy in their work and find set procedures too restricting
- Work best in an independent environment that is void of interruptions
- Tolerate interruptions from competent colleagues they respect
- Want to be respected by their colleagues

At work, the INTJ should be aware that they may:

- Be unmotivated to complete a project after finishing the creative component
- Experience difficulty changing their ideas, reevaluating their decisions, or considering opposing viewpoints
- Miss the practical requirements necessary to ensure the success of their plans
- Spend time making unnecessary improvements to projects or workplace systems
- Become impatient with those who do not meet their standards
- Need to intentionally appreciate others and realize the importance of feelings
- Have limited patience for slow learning coworkers and niceties
- Have a tendency to lack tact when they are in a hurry
- Need to include other peoples ideas throughout a project’s duration
- Have ideas that people find difficult to comprehend
- May excessively gather details without reason or alternatively may neglect all details

### Teamwork

On a team, the INTJ will often:

- Contribute a fresh perspective
- Ask the tough questions
- Organize information and schedule tasks to ensure they are completed
- Persist in advocating for their ideas and visions
- Prefer to work with individuals they perceive to be knowledgeable

On a team, the INTJ should be aware that they may:

- Place their own high work standards on others
- Refrain from sharing their feelings and prefer other members to not share this type of information
- Need to intentionally elicit the input of others
- Find it difficult to delegate tasks
- Become frustrated with team members who do not finish their assigned jobs, are not open to questions, focus on irrelevant details, require immediate answers, waste peoples time, and are deemed incompetent

### Leadership

An INTJ often has a natural inclination towards leadership and will often seek out these types of positions.

As a leader, the INTJ will often:

- Create necessary paths to ensure that the ideas become reality
- Motivate themselves and others to meet their goals
- Ensure that everyone is kept on task

### Communication

The INTJ will often:

- Prefer direct and honest communication
- Communicate their decisions, opinions, and plans but **rarely discuss their personal insights**
- Use a task-orientated approach that focuses on their big-picture ideas
- Have a tendency to point out flaws or be critical
- Become impatient with others when their ideas are not understood

The INTJ should be aware that they may need to:

- Incorporate concrete facts and details in order to paint a clear and tangible picture for their audience
- Consider how their words affect or impact people
- Accept feedback from people
- Listening to the peoples personal sharing and respond without being unfriendly or impersonal
- Communicate their own feelings that relate to a situation

### Decision making

When it comes to decision making, the INTJ will often:

- Be logical and objective
- Thoroughly analyze and assess the situation or problem
- Need to consider specific details when evaluating their options
- Make a decision without consulting an outside source
- Need to consider the impact their decisions have on people

### Stress

An INTJ will often experience stress when:

- Required to alter their plans or are given limited time to adjust to variations
- Achieving less than desirable results
- Encountering details that contradict logic
- Working with people they do not perceive to be competent, rational, or logical
- Surrounded by a disorganized work environment
- Pressured to breach policies or accept deception in their workplace

When affected by stress, an INTJ will often:

- Use card playing, excessive eating, watching tv reruns, or focusing on detail-orientated activities as a mechanism to avoid reality
- Gather details to support their self-destructive behavior and attack their self image
- Become preoccupied with the cause of their stress and have trouble focusing their energy on work
- Mentally review issues which lead to sleepless nights
- With chronic stress, become irritable, tired, tense, or angry

Advice: An INTJ can reduce stress by:

- Realigning their perspective by completing a task
- Taking time to reflect and potentially reduce their commitments
- Getting involved in a physical activity with friends
- Allowing other people to help by delegating some responsibilities
- Learning that relaxing does not require pushing themselves to achieve
- Learning how to connect with people


MBTI type INTJ


### Preferred work environment

- Needs a more practical environment, where they can master skills and do things and see tangible results.
- Need variety and the opportunity to dip in and out of activities.
- The environment where their natural disregard for rules, authority and structures allows them to focus on and tackle the emergency at hand in the most effective way

### ISTP and career exploration

An ISTP tends to **find career satisfaction** with careers that have the following characteristics:

- Applies their technical knowledge to practical situations
- Provides an opportunity to master and use their skills for specific tasks
- Involves efficiently working with their hands or tools
- Provides clear instructions for projects that produce concrete or useful products
- Involves working with other competent individuals that they respect
- Provides an opportunity for problem solving, crisis management, or other action-orientated activities
- Permits independent work with minimal time guidelines
- Involves challenging and fun work with minimal supervision

When **exploring career options**, an ISTP will often:

- Compile specific facts and statistics that pertain to their career options
- Naturally focus on current opportunities and benefit from predicting future career possibilities
- Take all available time to examine their options and chose only when required
- Feel uncertain about their career choice

### How type affects career development

During **their job search**, an ISTP will often:

- Gather specific job related information
- Need to intentionally organize a job search plan with specific deadlines
- Need to expend extra effort in their job search
- Convey skills and past experiences through their job search documents
- Take risks and adapt quickly to new job possibilities
- Use uncommon techniques to find jobs
- Only network when they understand the benefits
- Objectively analyze and logically assess each option

During an **interview**, an ISTP will often:

- Appear quiet and reserved when initially meeting employers
- Answer questions in a straightforward manner
- Benefit from practicing to discuss their skills and abilities
- Need to be cautious of the amount of detail they provide, be able to discuss future projections, and assess hypothetical situations

### ISTP and work

At work, the ISTP will often:

- Maintain their concentration while completing projects of interest
- Gather and organize information in a way that makes it understandable
- Be drawn to work with real or tangible products
- Focus on the ‘doing’ aspect of a project
- Prefer working on their own
- Respect colleagues for their ability to complete tasks
- Potentially break the rules when challenging inefficient processes
- Focus on completing tasks without unnecessary discussions or effort
- Readily adapt their work load to address immediate needs
- Approach their work with a flexibility that responds to problems when they occur
- Desire freedom to complete a task within their own timeframe
- Remain calm during crisis or difficult situations

At work, the ISTP should **be aware** that they may:

- Need to spend additional time in the planning stage of a project
- Need to anticipate future possibilities and plan accordingly
- Be easily enticed by new projects and need to ensure they complete their current commitments
- Lose patience with broad discussions
- Need to persevere to complete a task
- Take shortcuts and appear disorganized or unconcerned with their work
- Become easily bored with routine tasks
- Benefit from learning to be more reliable through improved organizational skills
- Be uninterested in long-term solutions and prefer immediate fixes
- Appear irresponsible from their inclination for spontaneity
- Become critical or negative and withdraw or delay their decisions when they feel unappreciated
- Focus on the task and think personal feelings and needs are unnecessary

### Teamwork

On a team, the ISTP will often:

- Provide the necessary data, facts, and information
- Organize and analyze their work in an efficient manner
- Resolve conflict through logical explanations and reasoning
- Motivate team members to action
- Persevere when working on tasks of interest
- Treat people in a fair and equitable manner

On a team, the ISTP should **be aware** that they may

- Avoid dealing with interpersonal conflict
- Irritate their team by only focusing on specifics, jumping too quickly to the next task, or when being too unorganized
- Become frustrated with irrational team members who are too dependent on their feelings, expend too much energy on unnecessary tasks, or conduct pointless meetings
- Need to remember to appreciate peoples contributions
- Need to intentionally developing rapport with team members

### Leadership

ISTP generally enjoy and pursue leadership positions. As a leader, the ISTP will often:

- Use a quiet approach that sets an example for others to follow
- Desire freedom from policies and procedures
- Compile all necessary information to persuade others
- Use their logical framework to accomplish tasks
- Consider all opinions before deciding
- Expect all team members to equally contribute

### Communication

The ISTP will often:

- Desire to hear logical, objective, and practical information
- Refrain from unnecessary communication
- Rely heavily on non-verbal communication
- Dislike surface level conversations

The ISTP should be aware that they may need to:

- Intentionally communicate their thoughts and important information with people
- Prevent hurting people by becoming more comfortable with sharing their emotions
- Be more considerate of some people’s need to express their feelings
- Focus on developing their listening abilities
- Intentionally provide feedback and be cautious of their abrupt communication style

### Decision making

When it comes to decision making, the ISTP will often

- Gather real or tangible data and base their decisions on this information
- Rationally and logically evaluate their options
- Need to intentionally examine the larger picture or additional possibilities
- Benefit from examining the impact their decision has on people
- Need to intentionally incorporate their values

### Stress

An ISTP will often experience stress when

- Feeling that their emotions are out of control
- Working within strict guidelines and requirements
- Perceiving their coworkers or supervisors are incompetent
- Confronted with a situation that cannot be logically assessed or explained
- Overwhelmed with their required tasks and neglect their personal needs
- Unable to determine the most efficient process
- Required to participate in too many extraverted activities
- Dealing with people who are excessively emotional

When they are affected by stress, an ISTP will often

- Develop a firm and unwavering focus on logic
- Respond poorly when others provide helpful ideas
- Become overly sensitive to how other people perceive them
- Feel alienated from the people around them
- Use a tone that is underlined with complaining or sulking
- Under excessive stress, express emotions through outbursts of anger or tears

Advice: An ISTP can reduce stress by

- Evaluating the facts in a situation to gain new insight
- Participating in independent activities that diverts their attention from the stressor
- Focusing on what they value
- Spending time on their own to reenergize
- Ignoring their concern of how other people perceive them


MBTI type ISTP


### Preferred work tasks

- Require thorough analysis
- Practical planning and organizational skills
- Process control and responsibility

### Preferred work environment

- Will fit best where the norms are clear
- The culture is performance driven.
- The place for everything and everything is in its place
- ESTJ prefer working with facts, details and the known, where the product or service is tangible rather than conceptual.
- Clear lines of responsibility and a planning process.
- Do not like to ‘wing it’ or take risks without being in possession of the facts and having thought things through.

### ESTJ and career exploration

An ESTJ tends to find career satisfaction with careers that have the following characteristics:

- Involves a structured, stable, organized, and busy work environment
- Requires organizing tasks, people, and resources to create a tangible product or service
- Involves a high degree of responsibility and control
- Outlines specific rules and procedures
- Provides an opportunity to interact with numerous people
- Respects individual experiences and values people’s input
- Evaluates individual contributions with a fair, objective, and logical system

When exploring career options, an ESTJ will often…

- Gather career related facts and details
- Use networking opportunities to gain a detailed understanding of various careers
- Logically evaluate their career options
- Need to incorporate their values into their career decision
- Select their career direction early and rarely question their choice

### How type affects career development

During their job search, an ESTJ will often...

- Organize an efficient job search
- Collect job related facts and information
- Network with a large number of individualsBase their decision on comparing the job requirements and their personal abilities
- Need to spend time considering all their possibilities before making a decision
- Benefit from considering the future implications of the potential position

During an interview, an ESTJ will often...

- Effectively convey their skills and competencies that relate to the positionProvide examples of past experiences
- Need to intentionally cultivate a connection with the employer
- Need to be cautious not to appear too abrupt or talk too much

### ESTJ and work

At work, the ESTJ will often…

- Be dependable, decisive, detail-orientated, and practical
- Organize their work tasks to promote efficiency and achieve tangible results
- Aim to correctly complete a task on the first try
- Behave in a competent and businesslike manner
- Reliably complete tasks by their deadline
- Value and support the organization’s procedures, policies, and goals
- Desire a hierarchical organizational structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities
- Desire clear instructions and expectations in a supportive work environment
- Use established methods to address problems as they occur
- Monitor current procedures and make necessary changes
- Enjoy working in a team environment.

At work, the ESTJ should be aware that they may…

- Overpower peoples opinions and become impatient or inflexible when their contributions are not recognized
- Need to be cautious not to overwhelm themselves with completing the work of others
- Oppose change unless the long-term benefits are identified
- Need to accept that new ideas and change are often necessary and can improve efficiency
- Need to intentionally consider the big picture or additional possibilities that are not immediately obvious
- Benefit from maintaining an open-mind
- Be critical of others who do not adhere to their high work standards
- Need to recognize that all people will not be like them and may effectively work at a different pace
- Need to patiently gather additional information to optimize the quality of their work

### Teamwork

On a team, the ESTJ will often…

- Contribute their time, energy, and problem-solving abilities
- Use a direct approach to interact with their team members
- Challenge team members to excel
- Maintain a focus on the next step or required task
- Work most effectively with competent individuals who mirror their work standards
- Expect other members to meet deadlines and complete their respective tasks

On a team, the ESTJ should be aware that they may…

- Require additional effort to develop rapport with their team members
- Need to encourage group members to develop their leadership abilities
- Irritate others by only focusing on the task and being too straightforward or controlling
- Become frustrated with slow working members who deviate from the set procedures, lack commitment, or inefficiently complete tasks
- Need to balance their focus on the task with the needs of each group member

### Leadership

ESTJs generally enjoy and pursue leadership positions. As a leader, the ESTJ will often …

- Create an organized plan that focuses on achieving results
- Provide clear instructions and expectations to ensure that individuals adhere to the plan and efficiently complete their job
- Enjoy directing and organizing people
- Model the behavior that they expect from their team
- Follow and enforce the organization’s policies and procedures
- Make quick decisions
- Need to recognize the small accomplishments throughout a project
- Need to remember to address the personal needs of their group

### Communication

The ESTJ will often…

- Honestly and clearly present their thoughts, ideas, and opinions
- Desire to hear pertinent, detailed, and logical information
- Promote efficiency through limiting unnecessary discussions
- Enjoy discussing topics or debating issues
- Openly discuss their opinions in a direct manner
- Limit their involvement in small talk

The ESTJ should be aware that they may need to…

- Convey their opinions without being overly critical or judgmental
- Communicate with their coworkers throughout all stages of a project
- Ensure they listen to others and are not overly forceful of their ideas
- Refrain from interrupting people during a conversation
- Provide positive comments and acknowledge people’s accomplishments

### Decision making

When it comes to decision making, the ESTJ will often…

- Objectively and logically evaluate each option
- Reflect on past experiences and apply them to current decisions
- Be able to make difficult decisions and adhere to their principles
- Need to intentionally consider the effect their decision will have on others
- Need to ensure they gather all necessary information before making a decision
- Make quick decisions and may benefit from further considering their options

### Stress

An ESTJ will often experience stress when…

- Perceiving others or themselves are unable to complete their duties
- Dealing with frequent changes or uncertainty
- Lacking control over their time or duties
- Working within an inefficient group or unorganized environment
- Feeling unable to deal with their emotions or the emotional expression of others
- Requested to extend beyond their current leadership position during a crisis
- Unintentionally having a negative affect on people as they pursue their goals
- Planning and organizing does not fix a problem

When they are affected by stress, an ESTJ will often…

- Become withdrawn and question their personal worth
- Lose control of their emotions and display outbursts of anger or tears
- Consume themselves with work and become more impersonal or detached
- Become rigid, inflexible, or unwilling to consider new ideas
- Fear that they are not liked by others
- Experience difficulty in discussing and articulating their feelings
- Under significant stress, abruptly express their critical judgments of others or experience difficulty in discussing their personal feelings of despair or depression

Advice: An ESTJ can reduce stress by…

- Talking through their feelings with others
- Considering how the situation will impact others
- Reestablishing control through spending time on their own
- Assessing whether their goals should be adjusted
- Participating in activities that facilitate reflection on their feelings
- Spending time making a decision
  Realistically evaluating the expectations they have of others


MBTI type ESTJ


### Preferred work environment

- Company where the norms are clear
- The culture is performance driven and where there is a place for everything and everything is in its place.
- They prefer working with facts, details and the known, where the product or service is tangible rather than conceptual
- There are clear lines of responsibility and a planning process.
- They do not like to ‘wing it’ or take risks without being in possession of the facts and having thought things through so that they are clear.

### ISTJ and career exploration

An ISTJ tends to **find career satisfaction** with careers that have the following characteristics:

- Uses technical skills to work with facts and details
- Produces a real product or service
- Are governed by rules and regulations
- Provides an opportunity for long term security
- Offers a stable and traditional work environment
- Uses an organizational reporting structure
- Requires a minimal amount of risk taking and limited change
- Allows independent work to be completed in an adequate time frame
- Provides an opportunity for greater responsibility and compensation through promotion and performance evaluation

When **exploring career options**, an ISTJ will often

- Perform thorough research on currently available careers
- Logically and realistically assess each career option
- Need to intentionally consider options that would require change
- Need to include their personal values as part of the selection criteria
- Benefit from weighing out all their options to avoid making a hasty career decision

### How type affects career development

During their job search, an ISTJ will often:

- Do thorough research on all prospective fields
- Accept the job search process and length
- Need to intentionally investigate jobs through avenues that they do not commonly use
- Network with a small number of individuals that they feel personally connected to
- Accurately prepares their job search documents
- Need to include their achievements in their applications
- Meet the job application deadline
- Need an extra reminder to follow up with an employer through a thank you notDuring an interview, an ISTJ will often...
- Use supporting evidence and examples to market their knowledge
- Appear uninterested in a position due to their quiet disposition
- Need to present their enthusiasm for the position

### ISTJ and work

At work, the ISTJ will often:

- Be hardworking, organized, efficient, and productive
- Set tangible goals
- Devise action plans to meet their established goals
- Consistently complete tasks on schedule and follow through with commitments
- Follow the established policies, procedures and routines
- Desire clear and predictable expectations
- Prefer independent work but be comfortable with teamwork
- Take limited or no risks
- Reliably complete work without supervision
- Excel in areas they understand and practice

At work, the ISTJ should **be aware** that they may:

- Experience difficulty in adapting to unexpected events or unscheduled opportunities
- Resist change and be reluctant to incorporate ideas that have not been tested
- Need to intentionally stay open to innovative ideas in order to prevent rigidity
- Focus on daily processes and neglect future needs and possibilities
- Have an eye for what is wrong or incorrect and miss what has been done correctly
- Need to remember the positive accomplishments of others
- Have a difficult time turning down work or delegating tasks to coworkers
- Focus on policies and procedures and become critical or judgmental if they feel unappreciated or unable to use their abilities
- Miss good opportunities when relying too heavily on proven experiences and dismiss new, untested processes

### Teamwork

On a team, the ISTJ will often:

- Work on their assigned task until completion
- Work best in a team when all members have designated tasks and each member completes their duties
- Use logical ideas to influence their team members and solve problems through applying common sense
- Dislike personal issues that get in the way of the task
- Disclose little about their personal lives

On a team, the ISTJ should be aware that they may:

- Be viewed as a ‘picky’ team member
- Need to place more emphasis on understanding and building rapport with their team members
- Become irritated when team members do not complete agreed upon tasks and do not cooperate with the group
- Become frustrated when team members interrupt or are excessively talkative
- Need to make a concentrated effort to provide their opinion in a timely manner and maintain a fun attitude
- Be more effective by focusing on the development of their interpersonal skills

### Leadership

ISTJ **generally enjoy and pursue leadership positions**. As a leader, the ISTJ will often…

- Be fair, consistent and have clear expectations
- Focus on the organizational needs
- Make decisions based on what they have learned through past experiences and gathering facts
- Lean towards the traditional and hierarchical approach to leadership
- Usually reward those who have consistently completed the assigned task and followed the rules

### Communication

The ISTJ will often:

- Communicate in a clear and straightforward manner
- Take a no-nonsense approach to expressing themselves and providing direction
- Break down complicated information into specific, detailed sections
- Want to hear the information relating to expectations and procedures
- Establish evidence as credible when it is logical, factual, accurate and organized
- Listen to others and deal with conflict without being overwhelmed with emotion
- Articulate their thoughts in conversations
- Provide consequences or criticism when necessary

The ISTJ should be aware that they may need to:

- Work on communicating and sharing information about themselves and their viewpoint
- Communicate and build relationships with their friends, family and co-workers
- Make a conscious effort to observe the feelings of other people when providing feedback
- Vocalize their appreciation of other peoples’ accomplishments

### Decision making

When it comes to decision making, the ISTJ will often…

- Make sensible and logical decisions
- Objectively gather and analyze the facts
- Weigh information against their perception of what is realistic
- Need to consider the impact their decisions have on people
- Benefit from considering additional options and incorporating their values
- Need to slow down their decision making process in order to consider all information

### Stress

An ISTJ will often experience stress when…

- Others inadequate work has a negative impact on their own work
- Required to make a significant deviation from their routine
- Given information that is too broad
- Others disregard common sense
- Their work habits lead them to deny their personal needs
- They feel rushed and develop a perceived inability to complete the task
- Forced to make irrational, unexplainable, or immediate changes to their work
- Required to complete a task using an inefficient process

When they are affected by stress, an ISTJ will often…

- Pay even closer attention to the detail
- Begin to form solutions to problematic situations based on their past experiences
- Become overwhelmed with the amount of data obtained and lose control of all the details
- Become impulsive or compulsively worry about the future
- With great stress, abandon their typical approach and start to imagine all the negative possibilities through ‘catastrophizing’

Advice: An ISTJ can reduce stress by

- Imagining the worst case scenario and planning accordingly
- Looking to the big picture and putting their stress into perspective
- Realistically determine what will matter in the future
- Leaving the situation and trying something uncharacteristic in order to realign their perspective


MBTI type ISTJ

## Getting started

This is a part from our study how to recognize people traits at the first sight. This guide is made to help HRs or Project Lead have a quick view of potential candidates and/or new teammates personality. Working with nature is more productive than working against it.

No personality type is inherently better or more desirable than another in general. This reference is applied to the tech industry only.

MBTI reveals **how we tend to interact/think.** It's not that Thinkers don't feel or Feelers don't think, but only that they differ in the degree. The same for other preferences (I/E, S/N, P/J)

## The basic

The MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) is a framework designed to identify a person's personality type, strengths, and preference. Each type have [4 preferences](/cdeaa142edca44669867f8fbb120c342) among 8 available preferences.



### Introverted , extroverted

**Low energy vs. High energy**

I , E: How we interact

### Sensing , intuition

**Abstract vs. Details, facts**

S , N: How we gather information

### Thinking , feeling

**Logical vs. Emotional**

T , F: How we make decision

### Perceiving , judging

**Open minded , Decisive**

P , J: How we deal with outer world



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### Engineering

Sensing, Thinking and Judging
A little N , Intuition is okay. (S + T + J)

- Organising
- Detailed oriented
- Deadline focused
- Curiosity and thinking based on facts/ data.

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- **I spend my time pursuing my goals** <> I spend my time enjoying life
- **I am more interested in what is real** <> I am more interested in what is possible
- **I work first, play later** <> I play first, work later

### Design

Intuition, Feeling and Judging
(N + F + J)

- People-focused diplomats
- Can combine art x data
- Creativity

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- **I spend my time pursuing my goals** <> I spend my time enjoying life
- **I question traditional values** <> I trust traditional values
- **I work first, play later** <> I play first, work later
- **I enjoy experiencing new things** <> I enjoy activities that are familiar

### Sales , marketing

Extraverted and Feeling
(E + F)

- Sociable
- Persuasive
- Visionary

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- **I put others' needs ahead of my own** <> I put my needs first
- **I seek attention from others** <> I avoid attention from others

### People ops

Intuition and Feeling
(N + F)

- Good with people
- Searching meaning of things
- Human sense

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- **I put others' needs ahead of my own** <> I put my needs first
- **I look for ways to help others** <> I look for ways to achieve my own goals

## Strategy for better guess

- Background check with their social media.
- Ask their colleagues/ friends that we have acquainted with.
- Avoid over-focusing on particular, e.g. The talkative doesn't mean extrovert
- If we don't know their exact type, define **"Which type are they least like?"**
- Understand the cognitive function stack to define the type's framework.

Search "Type name + function stack", e.g. INFP function stack to get the information.

- Note: **Don't ever tell the candidates that we care about their MBTI.** It can affect the result's accuracy.

A guide to using MBTI personality types to better understand job candidates and team members, with specific traits to look for in engineering, design, sales, and people operations roles.

Apply MBTI in hiring


## The four preferences are

### Extraversion and introversion

When we talk about "extraversion" and "introversion", we are distinguishing between the two worlds in which all of us live. There is a world inside ourselves, and a world outside ourselves. When we are dealing with the world outside of ourself, we are "extraverting". When we are inside our own minds, we are "introverting".

We are **extraverting** when we:

- Talk to other people
- Listen to what someone is saying
- Cook dinner, or make a cup of coffee
- Work on a car

We are **introverting** when we:

- Read a book
- Think about what we want to say or do
- Are aware of how we feel
- Think through a problem so that we understand it

Within the context of personality typing, the important distinction is which world we live in more often. Do we define our life's direction externally or internally? Which world gives us our energy, and which do we perhaps find draining?

### Sensing and intuition

The "SN" preference refers to how we gather information. We all need data on which to base our decisions. We gather data through our five senses. Jung contended that there are two distinct ways of perceiving the data that we gather. The "Sensing" preference absorbs data in a literal, concrete fashion. The "Intuitive" preference generates abstract possibilities from information that is gathered. We all use both Sensing and intuition in our lives, but to different degrees of effectiveness and with different levels of comfort.

We are **Sensing** when we:

- Taste food
- Notice a stoplight has changed
- Memorize a speech
- Follow steps in a plan

We are **Intuitive** when we:

- Come up with a new way of doing things
- Think about future implications for a current action
- Perceive underlying meaning in what people say or do
- See the big picture

Within the context of personality typing, the important distinction is which method of gathering information do we trust the most? Do we rely on our five senses and want concrete, practical data to work with? Or do we trust our intuitions without necessarily building upon a solid foundation of facts?

### Thinking and feeling

When Jung studied human behavior, he noticed that people have the capability to make decisions based on two very different sets of criteria: Thinking and feeling. When someone makes a decision that is based on logic and reason, they are operating in Thinking mode. When someone makes a decision that is based on their value system, or what they believe to be right, they are operating in Feeling mode. We all use both modes for making decisions, but we put more trust into one mode or the other. A "Thinker" makes decisions in a rational, logical, impartial manner, based on what they believe to be fair and correct by pre-defined rules of behavior. A "Feeler" makes decisions on the individual case, in a subjective manner based on what they believe to be right within their own value systems.

We are making decisions in the **Thinking** mode when we:

- Research a product via consumer reports, and buy the best one to meet our needs
- Do "The Right Thing", whether or not we like it
- Choose not to buy a blue shirt which we like, because we have two blue shirts
- Establish guidelines to follow for performing tasks

We are making decisions in the **Feeling** mode when we:

- Decide to buy something because we like it
- Refrain from telling someone something which we feel may upset them
- Decide not to take a job because we don't like the work environment
- Decide to move somewhere to be close to someone we care about

Some decisions are made entirely by Thinking or Feelings processes. Most decisions involve some Thinking and some Feeling. Decisions that we find most difficult are those in which we have conflicts between our Thinking and feeling sides. In these situations, our dominant preference will take over. Decisions which we find easy to make and feel good about are usually a result of being in sync with both our Feeling and Thinking sides.

### Judging and perceiving

Judging and perceiving preferences, within the context of personality types, refers to our attitude towards the external world, and how we live our lives on a day-to-day basis. People with the Judging preference want things to be neat, orderly and established. The Perceiving preference wants things to be flexible and spontaneous. Judgers want things settled, Perceivers want thing open-ended.

We are using **Judging** when we:

- Make a list of things to do
- Schedule things in advance
- Form and express judgments
- Bring closure to an issue so that we can move on

We are using **Perceiving** when we:

- Postpone decisions to see what other options are available
- Act spontaneously
- Decide what to do as we do it, rather than forming a plan ahead of time
- Do things at the last minute

We all use both Judging and perceiving as we live our day-to-day life. Within the context of personality type, the important distinction is which way of life do we lean towards, and are more comfortable with.

The differences between Judging and perceiving are probably the most marked differences of all the four preferences. People with strong Judging preferences might have a hard time accepting people with strong Perceiving preferences, and vice-versa. On the other hand, a "mixed" couple (one Perceiving and one Judging) can complement each other very well, if they have developed themselves enough to be able to accept each other's differences.

Source: [The Four Preferences](https://www.personalitypage.com/html/four-prefs.html)


The four preferences in MBTI personalities