List Descriptions
| The careers pages at our site list the careers associated with each personality type, as identified in two research projects. The first looks at the roles that are performed in each job. The second matches jobs with the personality preferences of those doing the jobs. |
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Which occupations make use of particular team roles?
The first list describes which jobs make demand of certain team roles.
(The list is derived by matching the dominant and auxiliary function-attitudes in the personality type with the roles that are actually used in the job).
For example:
- there were a number of people who completed our team role questionnaire who reported their job as a "counsellor" or something similar.
- When those people in a counselling job completed our team role questionnaire, they reported (on average) that they used certain team roles more than others - for example, they used "Coach" (or "extraverted Feeling" in the Jungian terminology) and "Innovator" (or "introverted iNtuition).
- Extraverted Feeling is the dominant function, or preferred team role, of ENFJs and ESFJs.
- Introverted iNtuition is the auxiliary function, or second-prerred team role, of ENFJs.
- Therefore, "counsellor" was entered onto the list for ENFJs. It was not entered onto the list for ESFJs because ESFJ's second-preferred team role "Curator" (or auxiliary function introverted Sensing) did not appear on the list of roles that was used more than average by counsellors.
Note: there are a small number of occupations that demand a great deal of flexibility and used most or all the team roles - eg: marketing or human resources. Therefore, marketing and human resources will appear in the first lists of most or all the types.
Where do people who prefer using those type preferences go?
The second list is based on selection ratio, and is made up of two sub-lists - one for the preferred and one for the second preferred team role (or dominant and auxiliary functions). These lists are derived from a more complicated calculation, and are ordered by "selection ratio".
This is a commonly used formula calculated as (the number of people who use that team role most in that job) divided by (the number of people doing that job) multiplied by (the percentage of those using the team role in the total sample).
For more general information on career choice see What Career Is Right For Me.
