How to Choose a Career Based on Your Personality Type

We all know at least one. Creators tend to shy from structured and constricting environments; desk jobs don’t often suit a high creative scorer. Instead, artistic types excel in accepting spaces where their originality, creativity and visualization skills can be allowed to run free.

It’s obvious which careers suit creators: musicians, dancers (builder/creator cross), painters, graphic designers (creator/thinker), editors, directors and so on. Unfortunately, most creatives are doomed to low salaries, especially at the beginning of their careers. Oh well...

Helpers boast perhaps the greatest talent of all: compassion. Your stereotypical ‘social’ type is a people-person who enjoys teamwork and values relationships highly.

Helpers excel in high-cooperation, socially aware roles like counselling and teaching. They’re more often women than men, are the first choice for therapists and, when crossed with builders, excel at personal training. Nurses often score highly on this personality type too, and the best customer service/client-facing roles go to people who max the ‘social’ scale.

The best-paid social jobs are almost always going to be in sales or management. But really, anything that requires you to manage people is a winning situation!

Ah yes, the persuaders! Like helpers, persuaders draw energy from teamwork and connecting with individuals. But while helpers are empathetic, persuaders enjoy the feeling of power and influence over others, achieving goals and risk-taking. They are, all in all, the perfect CEOs.

Persuaders excel in promotional, sales, development and organizational roles. Lawyers and politicians often boast high ‘enterprising’ scores, as do successful business people.

Found out you’re a persuader? You might think about a career in law, or setting up your own business!

‘Conventional’. Maybe not the adjective most people want to answer to. But there’s no more valuable skill in this world of uncertainty than the ability to file, systematize and streamline processes.

Organizers make up the bulk of the technician, actuarial and analyst workforce. They can work in a dizzying range of sectors, from the military to the legal and medical industries. They specialize in numbers and systems, but strong organization has more than a dash of creativity to it. And there’s nobody more dependable to whom businesses can turn in a crisis

The most profitable career path for an organizer? It would be hard to beat accounting.

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