Personality and the Jung Test

Personality Type Explained According to the Jung Typology Test I am an INFP—but really just barely. I am only 3% introvert, 9% intuitive, 3% feeling and 9% perceiving. I am right in the middle on most questions. However, the career choices that fall under the INFP category are actually all choices that I have considered in the past, so the test does seem to work.

The recommended career choices for the INFP are:  “Social workers, psychologists, life coaches, addiction rehab counselors, mental and community care staff, children education, teaching, and also creative script writing” (INFP Career Choices, 2018). The INFP Learning Style also describes me to a “t”—a enjoy learning but usually only when it relates in some way to human behavior.

I can study manuals and information that is purely mechanical—such as how to change oil in a car—but I do find it to be tedious and more like a chore than something I enjoy. According to INFP Learning Style (2018), my learning is improved when the material I am learning is presented with theory intact and when it relates in some way to the humanities, sociology or psychology. I enjoy multiple viewpoints and complex material is also easy for me to grasp.

Learning is difficult for me when I cannot relate to it on a personal level, when it has no connection to human behavior and it’s a subject that does not deepen my sense of the field. I like a subject that also appeals to my feelings.

My communication skills are good: I can be emotional but always respectful; I am able to empathize easily with others and speak in their same manner; I can become distant and reserved at times, however, as I reflect on what I have experienced. Overall, people come to me for advice and ask me questions that they think I could answer. I enjoy being a source of information for others. My personality type affects my career and effectiveness at my job in different ways.

I am open to others’ experiences, so enjoy hearing about them and learning from them. I am also able to be a good support for a number of people and my social connections at work are positive and strong. I feel that the test revealed a lot of my key personality traits—namely that I enjoy reflecting on ideas and on my worldview and trying to make sense of our place in the world.

As Locke puts it, I am often in “a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences” (Redmond & Bower, 2015). I like getting to obtain a deeper understanding of myself and my environment and seeing ways that I can improve on things if possible.

I enjoy a good challenge, and feel that “finding a ‘way to do it better’ is a challenge that helps all individuals to meet their personal and professional goals” (Bauer, Erdogan, Short & Carpenter, n.d.). My goal for myself and my colleagues at work is to always try to keep improving so that I can develop both personally and professionally, help my peers to do the same, and help my company to be better because of it.

I infer from this test that I have certain strengths and weaknesses as well. My strengths are my ability to empathize with others, relate to them, and comprehend complex theories that relate to human behavior and society. My weaknesses are that I am often bored by technical jargon and legalese. I do not care for subjects that are mechanical or unrelated to human behavior.

This means I would probably make a better leader than a manager—but typically one has to be both in order to be successful in the business world, so I must work on my technical manager side of things. What I have learned from the module background materials about my personality type affects my motivation in terms of what I see as my drivers. I like a challenge so long as it allows me to connect with others and improve things in a way that will actually benefit people.

I like to be part of projects where everyone is emotionally invested in the outcome. The specific steps I could take to increase my strengths and build up my weaknesses would be, first, to get myself into more leadership positions, head up projects and just start volunteering to be in charge of different committees. This would help to build my leadership skills and see if my emotional and social intelligence skills are where they should be.

It would also give me an opportunity to see where my management skills are, because whenever you are working with people there will always be a little bit of management required. People need to be guided, reminded of the rules and procedures, and advised on how to reach goals by implementing policies and strategies that have been devised. At the same time, I would like to take part in devising new policies and strategies based on my perception of things and on my own experiences.

I feel like I have a lot of understanding that I could bring to the table to help others develop personally and professionally and to help my company achieve its objectives more effectively. Thus, I could also take steps in learning more about complex theories to build my own knowledge on motivation and human behavior. I.