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Personality can determine which job you prefer and how your communicate.
Does your personality type have relevance for your career? To answer that, we turned to Kip Parent, CEO of Keirsey.com Inc., which markets the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, and Edward Kim, managing director of Keirsey's professional services division at Synergy Leaders LLC.
Is there a typical personality type that's well suited to IT?
KP: IT has become a complex industry, encompassing a number of different jobs. We have found that there are indeed some common personality types that gravitate toward certain roles within IT.
For example, the type that we most often find in the software developer role is what Keirsey calls the Rational-Architects (INTP, see chart). These types' communication and viewpoint of the world are abstract. They are attracted to this role because they are able to continuously learn new skills and try new techniques in building complex solutions. Usually, though, this type has little interest...