Good Careers For ISTJ Personality Types by Melanie Young

Are you familiar with the Myers-Briggs index of personalities and personality typing? This is a test that you take that tells you what your strong personality tendencies are in four domains. You can be either introverted or extroverted, intuitive or sensing, thinking or feeling, and perceiving or judging. If your personality type is ISTJ this means that you are introverted, sensing, thinking, and judging.

If you're personality type is ISTJ then chances are you have qualities such as valuing harmony and peace tenacity loyalty, dependability, stability, faithfulness, and a strong work ethic. You are the type of person who takes your commitments very seriously. You are a natural leader. Your preference is to work alone, because other people are never as dependable as you. However, you will work in teams when necessary. You like to make decisions based on rational thought. You appreciate orderly and structured environments. Lastly you are probably very community minded because of the fact that you appreciate Justice and fairness.

So what kind of careers are good fits for ISTJ personalities? Well because of the ISTJ interest and justice and fairness, people with this personality type tends to make fantastic lawyers, judges, and police officers. People with this personality type also do well as administrators and managers because of their ability to look at a situation and apply rational fairness. Lastly, because of their highly rational mind taking in a lot of information and making strong, logical determinations based on that information, I STJ personality types make very good medical doctors, particularly diagnosticians.

If you are a person who has an eye ISTJ personality, consider one of these career paths as being one that you might be particularly adept at, and not only that, but extremely fulfilled in.