Aptitudes and Orientations
Dec 22, 2015
Aptitudes and Orientations
Chapter 2, Lesson 1
Chapter Overview
• Lesson 1: Aptitudes and Orientations
• Lesson 2: Career Paths
• Lesson 3: Educational Paths
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Lesson Overview
• Personality types of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)
• What the MBTI says about leadership styles and work environments
• Career paths based on your MBTI personality type
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Quick Write
• How would you describe your personality:– How do you think?– How do you interact with other people?– How do you solve problems?– What kind of leader are you?
• How might an understanding of your personality type help you make a good career choice–in the Air Force, the military, or elsewhere?
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Personality Types of the MBTI
• Have you ever wanted to learn more about your personality and better understand how it affects your life?
• Educators and professionals use the MBTI
• The MBTI – identifies personality preferences– matches you with good career choices
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What Are Personality Preferences?
• Ways you like to think and behave– Define what makes you unique– Most people are either right-handed or left-handed – They have a preference to use one hand over the
other—what’s your preference?
• You have many facets to your personality– You use them all, but you have a natural inclination
for certain ways of thinking and behaving– They’re part of what makes you “YOU”
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Advantages of Knowing Your Personality Type
• Understand how you learn best• Gain insight into your leadership style• Enhance your career choices
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Four Basic Questions of the MBTI
1. Where do you prefer to direct your energy?
2. How do you prefer to process information?
3. How do you prefer to make decisions?
4. How do you prefer to organize you life?
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Directing Your EnergyExtraversion versus Introversion
Extraverted people:• Act first and think later• Feel deprived if cut off from interaction
with the outside world• Are open to and motivated by people
and things• Have a wide variety of friends from
different backgrounds
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Directing Your Energy Extraversion versus
IntroversionIntroverted people:
• Think before acting• Periodically need some “private time”
to think things through• Are motivated by internal, rather than
external, factors• Prefer one-on-one communication and
relationships
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Processing Information Intuition versus Sensing
Sensing people:• Pay more attention to the present than to
the future• Use common sense to create practical
solutions• Are able to recall facts and events in detail• Make decisions on the basis of experience• Like clear and concrete information;
dislike having to guess
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Processing Information Intuition versus Sensing
Intuitive people:• Spend more time than most people thinking
about the future• Are imaginative and like to create new
possibilities• Find it easy to see patterns and connections• Make decisions on the basis of theoretical
understanding• Are comfortable with uncertainty and with
having to guess
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Making DecisionsThinking versus Feeling
Thinking people:• Search for fact and use logic when
they must make a decision• Notice tasks and work to be
accomplished• Find it easy to provide an objective
analysis• Accept conflict as a natural part of life
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Making DecisionsThinking versus Feeling
Feeling people:• Rely on personal feeling rather
than on rules• Are sensitive to people’s needs
and reactions• Are consensus builders; try to find
common ground• Are upset by conflict
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Organizing Your LifeJudgment versus Perception
People who prefer judgment:•Plan as many details as possible
before acting•Are task oriented; prefer to
complete one part of a project before moving on
•Use targets, dates, and routines to manage their lives
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Organizing Your LifeJudgment versus Perception
People who prefer perception:• Are comfortable acting without a plan or
planning “on the go”• Like to do many things at once; to mix
work and play• Work best when deadlines are close• Avoid making commitment that interfere
with flexibility, freedom, and variety
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MBTI Type Overview Chart
ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ
ISTP ISFP INFP INTP
ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ
ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP
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Connect MBTI to Reality
In the table on the previous slide:• Which letter combination describes you
best?–Maybe it’s ENFP or INTP–Look at the leadership styles and work
environment that would be best for you–Do you agree or disagree?
• Which describes you least?
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Career Paths
• Each of the 16 personality types tends to be attracted to certain careers
• Study Table 2.2 in your text to see what kind of career matches your MBTI type
• Do any of the ones listed interest you?
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Remember . . .
• There’s no guarantee that these careers are appropriate for you
• Know what is important to you
• The MBTI is a tool to help you do that
• Once you understand what you truly value, you can pick a rewarding career!
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Keep in Mind
• You may face lots of pressure from family, friends, and others about your career choice
• Most people pursue several careers in a lifetime
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Review
• The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is used to determine personality preferences:– Extraversion versus
Introversion– Sensing versus Intuition– Thinking versus Feeling– Judging versus Perceiving
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Review
• MBTI makes connections between personality types and good career choices
• It helps you understand leadership styles and work environments
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Summary
• Personality types of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• What the MBTI says about leadership styles and work environments
• Career paths based on your MBTI personality type
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Next
• Today we’ve learned about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Next we’ll learn about pursuing a technically oriented career path
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