Aptitudes and Orientations

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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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