Careers for INFJ Personality Types
By Brenda Ellis, PersonalityPage.com
Whether you're a young adult trying to find your place in the world,
or a not-so-young adult trying to find out if you're moving along the
right path, it's important to understand yourself and the personality traits that
will impact your likeliness to succeed or fail at various careers. It's
equally important to understand what is really important to you. When
armed with an understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, and an
awareness of what you truly value, you are in an excellent position to
pick a career that you will find rewarding.
The INFJ is a special individual who needs more out of a career than a
job. They need to feel as if everything they do in their lives is in
sync with their strong value systems - with what they believe to be right.
Accordingly, the INFJ should choose a career in which they're able to
live their daily lives in accordance with their deeply-held principles,
one that supports them in their life quest to be doing something meaningful.
Since INFJs have such strong value systems, and persistent intuitive visions
that lend them a sense of "knowing", they do best in positions in which
they are leaders, rather than followers. Although they can happily follow
individuals who are leading in a direction that the INFJ fully supports,
they will very unhappy following in any other situation.
The following list of professions is built on our impression of careers
that would be especially suitable for an INFJ. It is meant to be a starting
place, rather than an exhaustive list. There are no guarantees that any
or all of the careers listed here would be appropriate for you, or that your
best career match is among those listed here.
