1. Personality Type and You:
Navigating your career through
type
Karina Money, MA - President and Founder
Right Path New England
Boston’s premier educational consulting and career coaching
firm
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2. Right Path New England
 Right Path / New England understands that
students are at times overwhelmed with
information and decision factors about their
educational and career needs.
 We work with the individuals in evaluating each
person's talents, skills, strengths and weaknesses
to understand what interests and motivates each
client.
 We provide guidance and support giving each
client the tools to assure that their educational/
career decisions are on the right path to
achieving success and happiness.
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3. Evaluation
 We use a combination of psychological
assessment, personality testing and interviews to
determine the educational and future career
needs of each young adult.
A complete assessment consists of:
 an interview with the student
 an evaluation of school records
 psychological and personality testing to assess
the specific type of education / career options
 a written report based on test scores and
interview which includes major/specialization
selection and post-secondary education options
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4. Career Consulting
 We base our evaluations on trait and factor theories,
developmental theories and learning theories.
 Trait and factor theories stress the individual's need to
develop his/her traits as well as select environments that
compliment those traits.
 Developmental theories share the assumption that factors
related to career choice are also related to stages of
personal and psychological development.
 Learning theories refer to the processes by which a person
gains self-efficacy and what effect that has on his/her
career and decision making process.
 By incorporating psychological theories in our evaluation
we strive to help our client find a graduate program or
career path that is tailored to their strengths, desires and
dreams. Our purpose is to help the client find a career path
that will help him/her achieve life long success and
happiness.
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5. Personality Type Advising Benefits to
Students
 Achievement
 Success
 Motivation
 Happiness
 Financial
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6. Brief Overview of Personality
Typing
 Personality typing is the innate way people
naturally see the world and make decisions.
 Basis = belief that there are 16 distinct personality
types and each person has one type that most
accurately describes him or her
 The model of personality type is non-judgmental,
no one type is worst than another
 Personality typing is not a measure of intelligence
but rather a way to identify important natural
predispositions and tendencies
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7. Four Dimensions of Personality
Typing
 How people interact with the world and where
they direct their energy
 The kind of information they naturally notice and
remember
 How they make decisions
 Whether they prefer to live in more structured
ways (making decisions) or more spontaneous
ways (taking in information)
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8. Continuum Between Opposite
Extremes
 How people interact with the world and where
they direct their energy
(E) Extraversion _________|____________
Introversion (I)
 The kind of information people naturally notice
and remember
(S)Sensing______________|_____________
Intuition (N)
 How people make decisions
(T) Thinking ____________|______________Feeling
(F)
 Whether people prefer to live in a more structured
or spontaneous way
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(J)Judging______________|_____________Perceiving

9. Eight Preferences and Career/Learning
Implications for
College Students
EXTRAVERSION (E)-INTROVERSION (I) relates to:
 How people interact with the world and where they direct their energy
EXTRAVERTS
 Focus attention outward
 Enjoy a variety of tasks
 Seek out and need other people
 Work at a rapid pace
 Need to talk about their ideas to think them through
INTROVERTS
 Focus attention inward
 Consider things fully before responding
 Enjoy tasks that require concentration
 Work best on one project at a time
 Work at a careful, steady pace
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10. SENSING (S)-INTUITION (N) relates to: The kind of information people
naturally remember or notice; how people interact with the world and
where they direct their energy
SENSORS
 Focus on “what is”
 Like working with real things
 Apply past experience to problem solving
 Need specific and realistic directions
INTUITIVES
 Focus on “what could be”
 Enjoy theory and speculation
 Like working with possibilities and implications
 Need to use their imaginations
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11. Thinking(T)-Feeling(F) relates to: Whether people make decisions logically and
impersonally, or by using personal values; how people interact with the world and
where they direct their energy
THINKERS
 Enjoy analyzing problems logically
 Make fair and objective decisions
 Need to weigh the pros and cons to make decisions
 Can be tough negotiators
FEELERS
 Need work to be personally meaningful
 Like helping others and being appreciated
 Need decisions to be congruent with their values
 Need to work in a friendly environment
 Are driven to understand others and contribute
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12. JUDGING (J) – PERCEIVING (P) relates to: The way people like to live
their lives – more structured (making decisions) or more spontaneous
(taking in information);
How people interact with the world and where they direct their energy
JUDGERS
 Enjoy work that allows them to make decisions
 Prefer a predictable work pattern and environment
 Work towards completing their responsibilities before relaxing
 Like to maintain control of their projects
PERCEIVERS
 Enjoy flexible and changing work situations
 Like to be able to respond to problems as they arise
 Are more satisfied with fewer rules and procedures
 Need to have fun at work
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13. Challenges for Students with Certain Personality
Types
 Extraverts: Getting them to slow down enough to really think things through
before taking actions
 Introverts: Getting them to provide you with enough information to help them
and getting them to move from the thinking stage to the action stage
 Sensors: Helping them see possibilities that don’t yet exist and getting them to
focus on the big picture and long range consequence
 Intuitive: Helping them realistically evaluate career options and plans, and
getting them to pay attention to the little details that are so important
 Thinkers: Reminding them of the human consequence of their decisions, for
themselves and others
 Feelers: Helping them evaluate options more objectively and not take rejection
or setbacks personally
 Judgers: Getting them to delay making decisions prematurely, and to stay open
to new information
 Perceivers: Keeping them on task and nudging them into making decisions
when appropriate
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14. Personality Type Assessment Improves Student
Outcomes
 Retention
 Graduation
 Placement
 Choosing the right major
 Choosing the right career
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15. Retention
 The American Association of College and
Universities (AAC&U) reports that 53% of
students are academically unprepared
 Personality type assessment has been proven to
be the key to success of students and contributes
to overall retention rate by providing students with
the greatest chance for fulfillment and success
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16. Retention and Career
Development
 Career development is also seen as a major
component of student retention. Cuymaca
College implemented a personality assessment
component in their program and found that the
average persistence rate from fall 2000 to spring
2004 for the entire college was 57.8% compared
to 85.4% for the students who participated in
personality type assessment. The average of all
student success at the College from fall 1999 to
spring 2004 was 65% compared to 73% of the
students who took the course.
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17. Graduation
 Research supports the notion that campuses that
support the development of resilient students
enhance retention and graduation rates when they
provide effective advising, career exploration and
development and student support.
 Proper career and academic advising is the only way
that all students have the opportunity for on-going,
one-on-one interaction.
 Personality type assessment allows students to build
a close relationship with an advisor, encourages
student independence as they figure out who they are
and how to apply it to both their learning style and
career development, and allows students to reach
their goals.
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18. Job Placement
 Personality type assessment has been proven to
be effective in student job placement.
 Students who have participated in personality
type assessment have reported that they were
able to get along with people in the workplace,
the assessment opened their eyes to how their
underlying personality can affect communication,
learning and other aspects of their life.
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19. Choose the Right Major
 Significant differences have been found between
students that have a defined major and those that
do not.
 Students without a defined major were at a high
risk of dropping out without achieving success.
 Personality type assessment is the key in helping
students choose their major early in their
educational career; thereby, ensuring that
students define their goals and graduate.
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20. Choose the Right Career
 Personality type assessment has been used in
helping students choose the career path that
reflects their natural talents, interests, and
passions.
 The assessment serves as a retention function-
leading students to career paths that suit their
interest and aptitudes and therefore, making them
less likely to drop out and more likely to succeed
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21. Implementing Personality Type Assessment In
Your Institution
 Entering students 1:1 assessment
 Benefit: students fully understand why they are
getting their degree and what they can do with
their degree once they graduate
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22. Student Success
 Personality type assessment is the most effective
tool in assuring students’ success.
 Frequently, students’ sole reason for obtaining a
degree is because they realize that the job
market demands it.
 They have no idea what to major in and even less
of an idea what to do when they actually finish
their degree.
 Personality type assessment gives students a
broader basis for self-understanding and
direction.
 This allows students to pursue a degree they are
passionate about and gain employment in an
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industry where they will succeed

23. Personality Type Advising:
Student Benefits
 Students are offered an individualized career
discovery process – this will give them invaluable
insights about themselves and enable them to
find a career path that makes the best use of their
natural talents.
 Students get to know their personality type and
have a clear understanding of their strengths and
weaknesses. This allows them to succeed in
both their coursework and career aspirations.
 Students develop a set of career goals early in
their academic career.
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24. Implementation: Career Seminar
 Students enroll in a personality type career
development seminar as they approach their final
year of study.
 Seminar involves detailed personality type
evaluation and career planning.
 Difference between traditional approach – looks
beyond the big 3 (abilities, interests and values).
 Scientific research shows that personality has
additional dimensions that need to be recognized.
 The more aspects of one’s personality that match
their work, the greater the job satisfaction and
future success.
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25. Personality Type Assessment Seminar
Benefits:
 Students will have a clear idea of what they will
be doing after graduation
 Students will learn from each other and know
different personality types
 Students will feel optimistic about the future
 Students will be personally and professionally
fulfilled
 Students will be prepared for workforce realities
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26. Conclusion
 Let us put your students on the Right Path.
 Right Path NE offers the students of your
educational institution individual personality type
assessment that includes a number of scientific
tests recognized worldwide, analysis
and individual sessions (can be completed on-
line) and detailed report and recommendations.
 The issues we have just discussed are too
important. Make it the RIGHT PATH!
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27. Q&A
Right Path New England
www.rightpathne.com
689 Somerville Avenue
Suite B
Somerville, MA 02143
Karina Money, President
karina.money@post.harvard.edu
(617)297-7379
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