Personality and career tests can be very helpful in understanding yourself, in understanding the best types of work for you, in understanding how you interact with others, and multiple other reasons!

One test that is useful for career is the MAPP Assessment. This test can be taken free, and results given to you, by going to www.assessment.com . You then have fee-based options to obtain more detailed results.

Another test that I often used is the Myers-Briggs personality test. This is used by career counselors, relationship counselors, psychotherapists, etc. The purpose of the Myers-Briggs is to make the theory of psychological types described by Jung understandable and useful to people’s lives. The test results in describing you as one of sixteen possible personality types, on four scales:

Favorite world: Do you prefer to focus on the outer world or your own inner world? This is called Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I).

Information: Do you prefer to focus on the basic information you take in or do you prefer to interpret and add meaning? This is called Sensing (S) or Intuition (N).

Decisions: When making decisions, do you prefer to first look at logic and consistency or first look at the people and special circumstances? This is called Thinking (T) or Felling (F).

Structure: In dealing with the outside world, do you prefer to get things decided or do you prefer to stay open to new information and options? This is called Judging (J) or Perceiving (P).

NOTE: The above information was taken from the Myers-Briggs Internet site [www.myersbriggs.org] where you can learn much, much more.

From this, there are 16 personality types; for example, an INJT means someone who is introverted, intuitive, thinking, judging. Further explanation describes this type as a Rational, and the subtype as The Mastermind. Explanations are given for each category, type, subcategory, etc.

The test is also available through several options on the site, to include taking the test and having a one-hour discussion with an expert, for a fee. The test is available free at www.humanmetrics.com , which provides you with results, career options that suit your personality, some discussion about how you interact with others, and famous people who have your own personality type.

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