Career Life Connections 12: 16 Personalities Analysis

Essential Question:

How can I learn more about my personal strengths and areas for improvement?

Curricular Competencies:

 Explore possibilities for preferred personal and education/employment futures, using creative and innovative thinking
 Demonstrate and reflect on inclusive, respectful, and safe interactions in
multiple career-life contexts
 Assess personal transferable skills, and identify strengths and those skills that require further refinement

The Process:

1) Go to 16personailities.com and answer all the questions as honestly as you can.

2) What is your Code? INFP-T

3) What do each of the letters mean? I = Introverted
Quiet, open-minded and imaginative.
N = Intuitive

F = Feeling

P = Prospecting

4) What is the name of your designation?

Mediator

5) Complete the following organizer with information about your personality type:

- Empathetic – feels others’ emotions as if they’re my own.

(Making me thoughtful and kindhearted.)
Strengths - Generous – uplifts others’ around them, be a contributor to the
world.
- Open-minded – accepting, understanding, nonjudgmental, tend
to feel empathy for others’ even when they’ve done something
wrong.
- Creative – daydreamers, imaginative, usually will find interest
in artists and musicians.
- Passionate – common for me to give everything I’ve got when
something catches our attention (tend to be less outspoken)
- Idealistic – prefer to follow their conscience, even when it
means they must disregard the easier option. Desire a
meaningful, purposeful life. Hope to leave the world a better

Areas for Improvement
Relationships :
Friendships/Relationships
Friendships:
Career Paths
place.
- Unrealistic – can be a perfectionist, tend to be a hopeless
romantic and blinded by “rose-coloured glasses.” Usually have
high expectations for themselves.
- Self-isolating – crave connections with others’ but struggle to
build them due to being a bit timid, especially in new
environments
- Unfocused – struggle to be productive due to their imaginative
and introspective nature. (Can lead to them feeling frustrated
with how hard it is to just sit down and grind through.)
- Emotionally Vulnerable – higher emotional attunement which
can lead to emotional exhaustion and mood swings without
proper boundaries.
- Desperate to please – also known as a people pleaser. Tend to
go over and above to get others’ acceptance and approval.
This can be very energy draining. Common for them to get
side-tracked and forget about their own needs.
- Self-Critical – common for them to have unrealistic
expectations for themselves. Tend to have a negative inner
voice when they’re faced with failure. (Calling themselves
selfish, useless, inadequate.)
- Crave a deeper connection than most, more open-minded to
going out with more people and taking a chance on strangers.
Tend to focus on deeper qualities in a person rather than
surface level things like appearance, money, social status.
Though their imagination usually has them carrying a vision of
an ideal partner or an expectation of how love “should” look.
- Have a good understanding of what it takes to have a good
relationship (effort, compromise, and understanding.) Empaths
feel intense levels of emotion, especially when in love.
Described as loyal and devoted, carry lots of respect for their
partners. Quite motivational and supportive of their partners'
goals and ambitions.
- Have a hard time handling conflict and confrontational
conversations with their partner. This can lead to avoidance
and intensive people pleasing. Common for them to fixate on
the issue and try to solve it themselves.
- Usually hopeful that the friendship will last forever.
- Mediators find their fierce, protective side to come out when
they are put in a position to stand up for a close friend.
- Though they cherish their friendships and deep bonds, they
highly value and crave alone time to decompress.
- Mediators desire a career that feels fulfilling while also paying
the bills, prefer a passion-motivated career.
- Something creative, not too restricting but still implies structure.
 - Need to feel like their work is benefiting others, making an
impact.
- Counselling, psychology, teaching, health care, social work,
massage therapy, physical rehabilitation, writer,
choreographer, photographer
- Mediators feel best helping others rather than focusing on
checklists, and due dates.
Workplace Habits - Feel uplifted when helping their boss or fellow employee.
- Positive feedback can light them up, but criticism can make
them shut down.
- Distractions will turn them away from a job
- Enjoy freedom in their career, they need space to be creative
- Deadlines and instructions can be beneficial to keep them on
track.

6) Reflect on and analyze the feedback offered to you from “16 Personalities.”

 What traits and skills did “16 Personalities” highlight for you?
Do you feel this is an accurate depiction of you? Why/why not?

7) Type up a written response or make an audio recording of your

response. For each point you make, please provide an example and an
explanation to clarify your thinking.
I’ve taken this personality test multiple times and I always get the same answer. Being a
mediator is quite accurate, I think it might stem from my role in my family. I’m the youngest at
my mom's house (whom I live with full time) and the middle child at my dad’s house. My older
brother was always the higher maintenance one compared to me when we were growing up.
For example, when he had to throw up in the middle of the night, he would wake up both our
parents and spend the night crying about throwing up. On the flip side, I would get up quietly at
night, throw up on my own and tell my parents in the morning like it was no big deal. It was
always like that at my mom's house, even when my parents got divorced, my mom was in my
brother's room comforting him and I sat in my room alone, kind of confused about the whole
situation. There’re 3 younger kids at my dad’s making me one of the older siblings, I usually
stand in as an extra parent; helping my stepmom get the kids out the door in the morning,
making lunches, packing bags

Assessment Rubric:

Extending Proficient Developing Emerging

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