JDQ Radar showing the typical personality type demands made in a career in the forces.
Key: darker areas indicate high demand, lighter ones less demand. That is, if your personality type is a darker area, then this career matches your personality.
Below you will find comments by people in this career. They were asked to rate their job (out of 6) and what they liked or did not like about their job. Their comments are sorted by the rating they assigned. The actual job title they gave is in brackets with, if provided, the personality type they declared.
Rating 6/6
The team and producing a highly valuable output (Senior Operations Manager - ENFP)
1. When people change things that are working well purely because of personal preferences. 2. Lack of forward planning. (Resource Manager - ISTP)
Love the job. Hate the job locations. (Explosive Ordnance Disposal)
i love see miss guided kids go in the right direction. (juvenile drill instructor)
meeting new people, finding solutions, listening to people and their ideas, make everymember feel part of a team. (officer cadet)
Rating 5/6
I like the discipline but dislike being away from family and friends. (Military - ESFJ)
Lots of action, problems to solve, fast pace, good team of committed people. Helping others. Making a long term difference. Implimenting plans that save lives. (Police - ESTP)
everything but the discipline (police officer)
Rating 4/6
challenging travel tangible results lifestyle variety holiday (army officer - ENFP)
Rating 3/6
restrictive and limited, repetive and lacking vision or idividuality (police officer - ESFJ)
Its more personal, than the job intself. I feel i am at a dead end. I have where to go within this job to mamximaize my potenial, use my strengths and qualities. I feel like im out of place; this is not where im supposed to be. Ive been depressed lately and i think this is why. It pays good, i travel a lot, job security is about as good as it gets. My job is quite technical and political in the way things are to get done. Its all about somebodys ideas and facts. Its very monotonous and at times idle. Nothing personal or self rewarding. At least not for me. And i sit at my desk all day. BORING. (maintenance planning - INFP)
too detailed....an not the ones i care to notice.... (supply - INFP)
Confrontation (detective)
Location - [Location Removed] Lack of future options (Engineering Manager and System Engineer Trainer)
Rating 2/6
desk work -computers (policy director - ESTP)
That I am at war. In an organisation that does not care about what happens to its employees (Telecomminications - ESTP)
Juggling multiple jobs with insufficient resources to do the job properly. (Officer - INTP)
constraints too much change lack of resources to achieve task (logistics - ISTJ)
Dislike: Prejudice towards my sexuality. Occasional threats. Humiliation. (Security)
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