Sample Career Portrait

Factory Worker

Style

Work Type:

My work type is ISTP and my style is that of a "practical analyzer." I donít like a line of bull! When people try to convince me of something, it needs to be logical. I like action and I can work hard without getting tired. I am shy except with my family and best friends. I like working in a factory where things get done and everyone is focused on solving problems when they come up. I like to tell the truth about how I see things. I am very loyal to my friends and generous to my family.

Career Type:

My primary career type is "realistic." I have good mechanical and athletic ability. I like concrete things like cars and boats and tools and good equipment. I prefer action to words. I like to produce useful things that are well made. I prefer working outdoors when Iím not in the factory. I have had some jobs outdoors and they have been the best ones yet. My secondary career type is "conventional." I like to be precise, well organized, and work in structured situations. I make friends slowly and have a small group of long-term close friends that have the same interests I do. My tertiary career type is "social." I think more people should take responsibility for having their towns work better including the schools and the police and other services. I am active in the local political club and like to have an influence on the way things get done. I also help raise money for the scouts and other groups for kids.

Work Environment Interests:

I like working with people who are reserved and impassive, average in intelligence, satisfied with getting their jobs done and meeting standard goals, skeptical and questioning, and who are willing to let me do things my own way as long as the results are achieved. I like best working in a rural setting, preferably outdoors, in the same place that I go to every day, sometimes indoors in a factory, but also on a loading dock or in a terminal.

Career Drivers:

My primary career driver is "security." I was born in the town I work in, have all of my friends and family here, and would quit my job before I would leave town. My secondary career driver is "life-work balance." I am more interested in making sure that I have a balanced life that includes family, friends, hobbies, than have it be just about work. I like to work and think I am good at what I do, but thereís more to life than just work.

Values and Needs:

The most important things to me are location, exercising competence, physical challenge, independence, and job tranquility. What I want more of is play, precision work, making decisions, respect from others, and status. To get these things, I would have to become a supervisor, which I have been avoiding because I am not sure I want too much responsibility at work that might interfere with the rest of my life.

Work Activitiy Interests:

I like driving, fixing automobiles, installing heavy equipment, metalwork, and operating woodworking tools.

(People, Data, Physical, Adaptive):

The skills that I do best are assembling things, diagnosing mechanical problems, using power tools, following instructions, and thinking logically. If I want to be a supervisor I need to be able to lead others, manage people, motivate others, plan work assignments, and maintain schedules. I can take supervisory courses at work if I request them.

I am alert, conscientious, self-starting, physically strong, and industrious. I need to be more motivated, open to ideas, ambitious, encouraging of others, and people-oriented.

I feel blocked by my fear of taking responsibility, being naive politically, having poor listening skills, being confronting to others, and having a low frustration tolerance.