MBTI And Strong Interest Inventory Assessment Reflection

I have had an opportunity to know about MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory assessments through Counseling 116. These are two effective tools that can help people find their preferences by giving questions regarding their daily lives and basic differences in the way individuals prefer to handle situations.

For MBTI assessment, the personality type I got is ISFJ which includes introversion, sensing, feeling and judging. Introversion is a personality trait that focus on internal feelings of an individual. Introverts tend to be quiet, reserved, and traditional. Unlike extroverts who gain energy from socialization, introverts have to consume energy from themselves. For example, as an introvert, I feel extreme pressure to socialize in public, especially in an unfamiliar environment; as a first-year college student, I have no friends in this school which makes communicating with my classmates becomes the hardest part while I'm in class. After a day interacting with others, I often need to retreat to a quiet place and spend more time on myself. During my free time, I usually like to recall the past and think quietly alone. The second characteristic is sensing.

People who prefer sensing tend to take information that is real and tangible. They focus mainly on what they perceive using their five senses. I think I’m in middle of sensing and intuition. When asking a question, I prefer hearing a specific answer rather than general. For instance, if I ask for the time, I would rather know “it is 2:20” than “it is about 2:30. ” On the other hand, I usually give general or nonspecific answers to most questions. The next personality type I got was feeling. Feeling people can predict others’ psychological emotions from very minor changes. They make decisions based on principles and values.

According to the results, I found it difficult to choose between feeling and thinking. In some situations, I like to decide with personal feelings and beliefs. In some situations, I may neglect and hurt others’ emotion without knowing it, so that I have learned from my past, I give up something that I love since I know it might hurt people’s feeling. Finally, I like to use my judgment in life. Waking up in the morning, knowing what your day will be like and trying to make things come out the way they “ought to be” are some tendency of this type personality. As a judging person, I seem to prefer planning ahead and maintaining control as much as possible. In preparing an exam, I usually spread the content materials out evenly throughout the week so that I can review some sections each day to avoid procrastinating. Additionally, when doing homework, I like to finish one subject first before doing another.

Generally, as an ISFJ, I’m seen as a quiet, responsible and traditional person. Because the tendency to stick to one decision once it’s made, I always gather information carefully before making any decision. Based on occupational ranking for my personality type, engineer, nutritionist, nursing, and accountant sounds interesting. I would like to research more information about these careers and what they offer, such as work environment, salary and the minimum amount of education required to start working. For strong interest inventory, my highest theme code was CRI, which stands for conventional, realistic and investigative. Conventional types like to work with data, numbers, and records, while paying close attention to detail. Realistic types are independent and practical, often preferring to work with animals and machines. Investigative personality tends to be good at solving problems and bad at persuading people. These three themes apply to me perfectly in the way I work, think, and interact. I'm the person that likes to work alone, deal with numbers and analyze data. For example, in college, I rather take classes dealing with numbers and memorizing than courses with speaking and communicating. Three of my personal style scale results landed on midrange, while the other two were on clear.

My working style, most of the time, I prefer working alone, however, when handling a big project, working in a group is a better choice. The second one is learning environment, which landed on clear. As a result, I’m better at learning by doing short-term training to achieve goal. I’m not a person that feels comfortable taking charge of others because I know that my leading skills are not proficient; however, when I’m in a situation where no one wants to do anything, someone needs to take charge to stimulate the group then I can be that person.

My risk taking scale was perfectly in the midrange. I like taking risks but not in situations where I know the success rate is much lower than the failure. The final scale was teamed orientation. It was clear that I like accomplishing tasks independently and enjoy the role as individual contributor. Out of my top occupations, there was one from my Strong report that matches with those from my MBIT: Medical Technician.

Based on the theme I got, Actuarial Science and Accounting are two college majors that I would be interested in because they represent my working styles and interests. Before taking the test, I did some activities in class to identify my preferences. I got ISFJ and it was same with the MBTI assessment. I was surprised about the Strong Interest Inventory test when I got a CRI that was different from my previous class activity result: CSA. MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory applies to me strongly. They asked more specific details about my personalities and working styles. A lot of questions from two assessments had repetitive answers. For some of those, I marked the same answer and for some of those, I marked differently. Both answers were true for me at some points. Through this exercise, I learned about my interests, working styles and personalities. Based on that, I can choose a career that I love and apply my potential skills to that occupation.

Overall, the MBTI assessment is designed to identify the basic preferences of people to put in practical use, while the Strong Interest Inventory is a powerful tool that helps us achieve satisfaction in work and identify career options that consistent are with our interests.