LEARNING ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE

1. LEARNING ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE YOUR CAREER DEVELOPMENT

2. Learning Objectives • Gain an understanding of your unique strengths and weaknesses • Learn about other personality types • Understand and appreciate differences in the workplace • Your Career Development (resources)

3. History of Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment • Dr. Carl Jung - study of human personality • Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers- expanded on Jung’s work by developing an instrument to help people identify their preferences. • The MBTI tool is an indicator of personality type (i.e. innate preferences) that has proven to be remarkably reliable and valid. • After their assessment (MBTI), others followed, including the Do What You Are Dr. Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)

4. Preference Exercise • Write your name!

5. Four MBTI Dichotomies

6. Where do you focus your attention?Where do you get Energy? • Extraversion (E) vs Introversion (I)

7. Extraverts - energized by the outer world of action • Are energized by people • Lose energy if they spend too much time alone • Prefer to communicate by talking (phone or in person) • Have many close friends • Are sociable and expressive • Enjoy working in groups Introverts - energized by the inner world of understanding • Are energized by spending time alone • Lose energy if they spend too much time with people • Prefer to communicate in writing • Have 2 or 3 close friends • Are private and reserved • Enjoy working alone or in pairs Self-scoring

8. How do you prefer to take in information? Intuition (N) • Focus on the meaning behind the experience • Often seen as creative and imaginative • Think about the possibilities and what could be – 6th sense • Operate in the future • Value imagination • Trust inspiration • See trends and patterns in specific data • Idealistic and “big picture” Sensing(S) • Focus on experience • Often seen as being practical and realistic • Focus on the present – use the 5 senses • Operate in the Here and Now • Prefer details and facts • Trust experience • Exact and specific and like order and sequence • Realistic and practical

9. What do you see in this picture? What do think about? S/N

10. How do you make decisions? • Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)

11. Thinking • Decisions based on logic • Control their emotions, value objective criteria • Are often seen by others to be business-like and fair • Solve problems with logic and reasoning • Want everyone treated equally Feeling • Decisions based on feelings • Express their emotions, value harmony • Are often seen by others to be compassionate • Solve problems with attention to feelings and impact on others • Want everyone treated as an individual Self-scoring

12. How do you like to organize your life? • Judging (J) Prefer a planned workplace • Perceiving (P) Prefer a spontaneous workplace OR

13. Judging • Like to have some kind of schedule • Are scheduled/organized (like “to do” lists) • Change is difficult to handle • Like to finish things • Try to avoid last-minute stresses; finish tasks well before deadline • Are seen by others to be organized Perceiving • Likes flexibility • Able to “go with the flow” • Change is exciting • Like to start things • Feel energized by last-minute pressures; finish tasks at the deadline • Are seen by others to be spontaneous Self-scoring

14. Identify your personality Type! Review strengths and weaknesses of your OWN type

15. Group Activities E/I • Describe your “ideal” work environment/setting. What can E’s and I’s do to understand each other better?

16. Group Activities S/N • Your boss asks you to write a 5-year strategic plan about the company, but he doesn’t give you any detail on the format/length of the document. What does your plan look like? What can S’s and N’s do to understand each other better?

17. Group Activities J/P • You work full-time and you are about to leave your office at the end of the day. Your boss comes in and asks you to present on X topic tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m., at the weekly meeting with the entire staff. What will you do to prepare? What can J’s and P’s do to understand each other better?

18. Group Activities T/F • You work in a small firm as the Human Resources Manager and your boss tells you that, to cut costs, you need to “terminate” one of the two administrative assistants. How do go about making your decision? What can T’s and F’s do to understand each other better?

19. MBTI Types Visit our website for more information on the 16 personality types! Follow this path: • http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/career_assessments/MBTI_Profile.html • http://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html ISTP ENFJ INTP ESFJ

20. Resources • What Can I do With My Major In...:http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/where_do_i_start/what_can_i_do_with_my_major/Default.html • O*Net - http://www.onetonline.org/ • Diversity in the Job Search: http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/diversity_resources.html • Internship Resources - http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/students/job_resources/links_job_search_tools.html

21. Specific Links by Major • American Management Association - http://www.amanet.org/ • American Marketing Association - http://www.marketingpower.com/Pages/default.aspx • Public Relations Student Society of America - http://www.prssa.org/ • Jobs In Sports - http://www.jobsinsports.com/ • Human Resources - http://www.shrm.org/Pages/default.aspx • Finance - http://www.careers-in-finance.com/cbskill.htm • IS/IA - http://www.dice.com/

22. RowdyJobs • http://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/ • Learn about current openings • Learn about events (i.e. Career Fairs) and on-campus recruiting • Use Mentor Database • Use www.vault.com and other websites

23. Any Questions?