Careers for INFJ Personality Types

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.

INFJs generally have the following traits:

Intuitively understand people and situations

Idealistic

Highly principled

Complex and deep

Natural leaders

Sensitive and compassionate towards people

Service-oriented

Future-oriented

Value deep, authentic relationships

Reserved about expressing their true selves

Dislike dealing with details unless they enhance or promote their vision

Constantly seeking meaning and purpose in everything

Creative and visionary

Intense and tightly-wound

Can work logically and rationally - use their intuition to understand the goal and work backwards towards it

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, and 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.

Possible Career Paths for the INFJ:

Clergy / Religious Work

Teachers

Medical Doctors / Dentists

Alternative Health Care Practitioners, i.e. Chiropractor, Reflexologist

Psychologists

Psychiatrists

Counselors and Social Workers

Musicians and Artists

Photographers

Child Care / Early Childhood Development

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