Select Your Search Type

In order to do the advanced career search, you must know your Myers-Briggs type (MBTI letters).

The MBTI Instrument is the world’s leading personality assessment. It has been shown to be an extremely reliable instrument and its validity has been tested over 50 years of use. Yet, the instrument has recently been updated to provide greater test-retest reliability and better agreement between the four letters reported by the instrument and your best-fit type (type confirmed by you).

If you do not know your MBTI type, you can register to take the official online MBTI assessment by clicking HERE

CPP, Inc. scores the electronic version of the MBTI instrument, which requests occupational information from the people who take the assessment. Occupational information was collected from 195,320 individuals with full time jobs. This information is documented in type tables for 250 occupations and shows the actual number of all 16 MBTI types in each occupation. The smallest of these type tables contains information on about 100 individuals. The largest contains information on almost 14,000 individuals. So, you definitely will be looking at occupations that you should consider.

Gifts Differing (Myers & Myers, 1995) contains the quote, “One aspect of life that is observably influenced by type is the choice of occupation.” This observation is supported by research from the Journal of Vocational Behavior (Donohue, 2006) finding that people who intend to pursue their career are more likely to have a personality congruent with that career than those who intend to change careers. In addition, those who do change careers pick one that is more congruent with their personality. This process will help you match your personality type to career/s.

In the Top 50+ list for your type, there is no single consistent occupational theme. In fact, there are generally three or four strong themes within each of these lists. A theme (properly Type Occupational Theme, TOT) is simply a group of occupations with a common set of preferences. SDCA uses seven different personality typologies to find the best match for your interesting occupations (the subset or theme within the Top 50+ that is actually interesting to you).

• Temperament
• Holland personalities (O*NET Interests)
• Jungian Types
• Enneagram
• Type*
• Theme*
• Preference*

Since we are using occupational type tables, these themes are working themes.

*groupings are unique to SDCA.

If you do not, every individual feels that they have to own their entire Top 50 + list. This mindset can lead individuals to doubt the validity of these lists. They ask themselves, “Why are occupations on my list that do not interest me in the least?” Often, they conclude that these are bad lists.

These are good list; in fact, these are excellent lists. The problem lies in the fact that each Top 50+ list consists of three or four occupational themes. Your challenge is to pick occupations that are truly interesting to you from this list. Since each individual is most interested in a single theme, grouping helps you locate the occupations (and the theme/s) most interesting to you.

The software associated with SDCA will help you locate your working theme/s.

This short list or the following figure will give you a roadmap for this journey:

1. Analysis Form (to select interesting occupations from your Top 50+)
2. Select additional occupations from your theme or personal favorites
3. Use O*NET Online to reduce list to 5 occupations-select College Major
4. Job Seekers continue to identify Power Adjectives and reduce list to 3
5. Job Seekers identify Power Verbs and Detailed Work Activities
6. Job Seekers construct 3 resumes
7. Job Seekers construct 3 cover letters

Those seeking a College Major have only three Major Steps but the Job Search have seven Major Steps to construct Resumes and Cover Letters. ELCie extends best wishes for your search and can be contacted at www.elcie.com during this process.

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