Most of the people are one of the six personality types when it comes to choosing a career: Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E) or Conventional (C). These six personality types correspond to the work-environments and classify people according to their areas of interests so that they can be paired up with the appropriate careers.
People search for work environments where they can use their skills and abilities, express their attitudes and values, and take up agreeable circumstances and roles. A person’s behavior is determined by an interaction between his or her personality and the characteristics of the work environment. Based on an individual’s personality pattern and the pattern of the work environment, some outcomes of such a pairing can be predicted. These include choice of vocation, job changes, vocational achievement, personal competence, and educational and social behavior.
Let’s understand each personality and work-environment type indicates and determine the choice of career.
Realistic (R) Realistic personality types enjoy using their hands to explore the world and accomplish things. They like doing outdoor, mechanical and physical activities. The realistic types of people are drawn to problem-solving tasks. They are described as persistent, self reliant, and practical. They are likely to find job satisfaction in careers that can provide an opportunity for them to exhibit skills in logical reasoning and problem-solving using tools and instruments to collect real world data and apply technologies, machines and equipment to design and create products and solutions. Some of the career options for Realistic People are: Engineering & technology, Architecture & Design, Information Technology, Education and Training, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Forestry, Physical & Social sciences, Manufacturing & Production, Protective Services and Transportation & Logistics.
Investigative (I) Investigative personality types are eager to learn and intellectually curious. They are notorious for thinking things through until a solution is found. They value critical and analytical thinking. Though they value logic and order, but also prefer to use their investigative qualities in order to explore more innovative ideas. They appear to have a strong interest in understanding the nature and humanity through a systematic and scientific method. The investigative persons are usually described as very analytical, intellectual and complex. At the same time, they can be viewed as very thoughtful, curious, introspective and insightful. They are typically more curious about what mechanisms make things work versus things are working. Some of the career options for Investigative People are: Engineering & Technology, Architecture & Design, Financial Services, Information Technology, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Forestry, Healthcare: Medicine & Surgery, Allied Healthcare, Legal, Civil and Defense Services, Life, Physical, Mathematical & Social Science, Management, Media & Communication.
Artistic (A) Artistic personality type are original, imaginative, intuitive and passionate value beauty and freedom. They are also impulsive, independent and sensitive and can work well in loosely structured environments. They are very interested in work that involves creativity and appears to have a need for self-expression. They explore their curiosity in a very expressive way by using many different mediums in their activities. They are likely to find job satisfaction in careers that can provide a constant outlet for their dominant creative urges. They seek out environments that allow them space to explore their creativity. Some of the career options for Artistic People are: Architecture & Design, Education and Training, Performing Arts, Entertainment & Sports, Social Sciences, Management, Media & Communication and Personal Care Services.
Social (S) Social personality type are dedicated leaders, humanistic, responsible and supportive. They use feelings, words and ideas to work with people rather than physical activity to do things and they solve problems by feeling. They enjoy closeness, sharing, groups, unstructured activity and being in charge. They have a warm and friendly personality with willingness to listen, and a team oriented nature. They have a strong interest in communicating, interacting and dealing with people for understanding of human nature and serving humanity. They tend to be concerned with the welfare of others and use that as a guiding principle in their work. They are likely to find job satisfaction in careers that can provide an opportunity to employ their interpersonal skills in forging mutually beneficial relationships with other people, individually or as groups. Some of the career options for social people are Community & Social Service, Education and Training, Travel, Hospitality, Food Preparation & Service, Healthcare, Legal, Civil and Defense Services, Social Sciences, Management, Media & Communication.
Enterprising (E) Enterprising personality type have a strong interest in working with people and ideas. They have the ability to convince others of their ideas and possess the innate willingness to take initiatives, motivate and lead. They like to work with people, influence, persuade, lead to manage or organizational goals or economic gain. They enjoy money, power, status and being in charge. An enterprising personality type is often a leader who is talented at organization, persuading and managing. They like to team up with others to complete projects and achieve organizational goals. They dislike working in isolation and very ambitious. They are likely to find job satisfaction in career that can provide an opportunity for them to take the initiative and influence the course of events in any situation, project or business enterprise. This may involve leading and persuading people, making many decisions and managing real world risks. Some of the career options for enterprising people are Financial Services, Community & Social Service, Information Technology, Education, Training and Library Services, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Forestry, Travel, Hospitality, Food Preparation & Service, Legal, Civil and Defense Services, Management and Transportation & Logistics.
Conventional (C) Conventional personality types are traditional and like to follow the routine. They like to work with data and numbers, carry out tasks in detail and follow through on the instructions of others. They are quiet, careful, responsible, well organized and task oriented. They are detail-oriented and make excellent workers as their steadfastly finish any task before them. They like working indoors and at tasks that involve organizing and being accurate, following procedures, working with data or numbers, planning work and events. They are also very diligent in their work and are known for their perseverance in taking up tedious tasks that others might shy away from. Conventional people’s efficiency and practical thinking, usually earn them a lot of trust from others to handle the complicated tasks, as well. The great thing about these personality types is that because they enjoy doing these tasks, anyway, they are also often very much appreciated and respected by others. They avoid work that does not have clear directions. Rules and order are imperative in a work environment and can be very attractive for organized type as it eliminates a lot of potential headache surrounding organization. Predictability and security are very important qualities to have in a work environment if the conventional type is to fit in nicely. Some of the career options for conventional people are Engineering & technology, Arts, Architecture & design, Financial Services, Community & Social Service, Education, Training and Library Science, Information Technology, Agriculture, Animal husbandry & Forestry, Transportation & Logistics, Legal, civil and Defense Services, Management and Transportation & Logistics. \
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