My Personality Test Results

I attended the Career Choice and Your Personality workshop in UofT career center at the end of last semester. During the workshop, the host first guided us to self-select our personalities, and then compared the self-selected results with the results from the standard Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tests which we had previously completed. MBTI divides personalities by four dichotomies. Each of them indicates the personal preference of the direction of focus (Extroversion - Introversion), ways of acquiring information (Sensing - iNtuition), ways of deciding and evaluating (Thinking - Feeling), and ways of interacting with the outer world (Judging - Perceiving).

My self-selected result is EI/N/T/J. I had a hard time deciding whether I prefer E or I. My reported result is slight E/ clear N/ Moderate T/ Moderate J. And based on the two results, I found my personality analyses. They give descriptions on potential strengths and weaknesses, what I am good at, where might be my pit-fall, what kind of career I might find satisfying, as well as recommendations for the job search.

Since I have a tendency to look at the good side of everything including me, the reported weakness and potential pit-falls are more valuable to me than the rest. Here are some of them.

INTJ weakness/potential pitfalls:

1. Because of their sometimes impossibly high standards, INTJs tend to be perfectionists. They are such complex people that their ideas are sometimes too complicated for others to understand.
   
2. Most interested in their ideas and plans for the future, INTJs can miss some of the important practical concerns or realities that need to be considered to make their plans really workable.
   
3. I need to watch my tendency to lose interest in projects after the creative problem solving is over.
   
4. I need to watch my tendency to be impatient and disrespectful of those I consider less competent.
   
5. I need to watch my tendency to be unwilling to adapt to other environments or work styles.
   
6. I need to watch my tendency to be rigid in my viewpoints, dismissing opposing ones without full consideration.
   

ENTJ weakness/potential pitfalls:

1. Given their strong and authoritative style, ENTJs can easily run over others and take charge of situations that are not theirs to direct.
2. They can be harsh and blunt in their criticism.
3. They sometimes don't listen or finish other people's sentences when they erroneously assume they know what weas going to be said.
   
4. ENTJs run the risk of being all-business and not spending adequate time and energy on their personal lives.
   
5. In their eagerness to move ahead with new challenges, ENTJs sometimes make decisions too quickly, especially missing important practical information or considering how their decisions may affect other people.
6. While they pride themselves on their ability and intellect, ENTJs sometimes do not invite the input or suggestions of other people and can unknowingly communicate a superior attitude that may offend others.
   
7. I need to watch my tendency to consider only creative or unusual approaches to problems.
8. I need to watch my tendency to be critical and demanding with others.
9. I need to watch my tendency to forget to appreciate others or express encouragement.
   
10. I need to watch my tendency to lose sight of the personal side of my life while chasing my ambitions.