What is your personality type?

Happy, studious, comical, light-hearted, hardworking…

These are all helpful descriptions of aspects of a how you see yourself, but a one-word characterization does not fully capture the multi-dimensional nature of your personality.

If you are looking for a new career, one of the most important things you can do is to better understand yourself.

Your education, skills, or previous work experience may lead you to believe that you should focus on a particular field.  While these are all relevant indicators of your potential success in a job, the ultimate satisfaction you derive from your work will be based on how well what you do with your time aligns with your personality.

There are some great online tools for evaluating your personality.  The tests are quick, easy, and free.

Human Metrics – 72 yes or no question personality test that results in an assessment of your personality type and lists careers that may be of interest.

The Career Interests Game – Great tool that helps you think about what type of occupations and work environments are most suitable to your personality.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter – 70 question instrument that helps you discover your personality type, based on combinations of human behavior.