Free Career Aptitude Test-Discover Your Perfect Career Quiz
Sponsored LinksYou experience real career satisfaction when your work allows you to use your best strengths and natural talents. Such work is energizing and enjoyable, and you’re successful at it. But how do you identify your natural talents and find great jobs that match them? The first step is to determine your personality type.
Your “type” reveals important things about you, such as whether you’re naturally more outgoing or reserved, realistic or imaginative, logical or sensitive, and organized or spontaneous. And the more closely your type matches the job’s requirements, the happier and more successful you’ll be. It will only take you about 10 minutes to identify your type, so start now and discover your perfect career.
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Below are four questions that list descriptions of two different sets of personality characteristics or “preferences.” Both lists have their own strengths and blind spots. Both are equally valuable and NEITHER ONE is better or worse than the other.
Read both sets of descriptions for the first question, and decide which list — as a whole — describes you better (even if just a little bit better). Then click the appropriate button. Try to answer as you really are, not how you may wish you were or have to be at work.
Continue with the other three questions and hit the “Discover Your Type” button to view your type profile and review some potentially satisfying career options.
1. Where is your energy naturally directed?
Extraverts’ energy is directed primarily outward, towards people and things outside themselves. Introverts’ energy is primarily directed inward, towards their own thoughts, perceptions and reactions. Therefore, Extraverts tend to be more naturally active, expressive, social and interested in many things, whereas Introverts tend to be more reserved, private, cautious and interested in fewer interactions — but with greater depth and focus.
* Extraverts often: Have high energy
* Talk more than listen
* Think out loud
* Act, then think
* Like to be around people a lot
* Prefer a public role
* Can sometimes be easily distracted
* Prefer to do lots of things at once
* Are outgoing and enthusiastic
* Introverts often: Have quiet energy
* Listen more than talk
* Think quietly inside their heads
* Think, then act
* Feel comfortable being alone
* Prefer to work behind the scenes
* Have good powers of concentration
* Prefer to focus on one thing at a time
* Are self-contained and reserved

