ISTJ - Understanding & Relating with the Inspector by Clayton Geoffreys

Author:Clayton Geoffreys
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-02-27T23:00:00+00:00

What are Some Common Careers of an ISTJ?

While other personality types are happy just to find a job that will cater to their interests and natural strengths, ISTJs look for long-term careers that offer stability and consistency. Your need for reliability and dependence is a core aspect of who you are, and this is most evident when it comes to career selection.

ISTJs possess a high level of perseverance, which allows you to excel in pretty much any field you choose. That being said, there are certain career paths that are more aligned to the natural tendencies of your personality type. You place logic above emotions and you work hard to uphold the values and principles that you believe in. You prefer working in an organization that involves a lot of thinking and analysis (I), concrete facts and data (S), decisions based on logic and reason (T), and well-defined roles and responsibilities (J).

For these reasons, you are most drawn to jobs that have an established organizational hierarchy. You find tradition and structure appealing. Jobs as lawyers, police officers, and military officers are ideal for you. Not only will these career paths provide you with the stable and structured environment that you crave, but they will also enable you to practice your acute sense of right and wrong. They will also allow you to enforce the order that you need in life.

There are also other institutions and organizations that can provide you with an avenue to utilize your core characteristics. As an ISTJ, you are detail-oriented, objective, and logical. Due to this, careers as accountants, data analysts, and financial managers also appeal to you. These jobs will utilize your keen attention to detail to identify gaps in logic and correct them as you see fit. They also appeal to the methodical side of your personality, because they usually involve tasks that can be completed in a step-by-step and orderly manner.

As you have probably noticed, these jobs are usually done alone. This is actually what you like best. You are extremely independent, and you do not feel the need to rely on the skills of other people to get your job done. Be that as it may, you also have the ability to work alongside a team of other people, provided that you are guided by a clear set of guidelines. When working as part of a team, there has to be clearly defined and delegated roles and responsibilities. Arguments over who does what is very stressful for an ISTJ and such arguments usually take away the focus from getting the job done.

Overall, ISTJs fare well in career paths that are traditional, detailed, and stable. You do not like taking risks or picking the road less taken. Your skills and natural strengths will flourish best in environments where hard work, adherence to company policies, and critical thinking are of utmost importance.

It would do you well to stay away from jobs that are emotionally demanding. Careers that require you to empathize with other people, such as sales and customer service, are not a good fit.

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