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Find Your Perfect Career

Materials

• Personality Test for more advanced students
• Personality Test for Beginners. This test is modeled more after the kind of survey you see in women's magazines with concrete situations and more fun questions. It's probably better for beginners because the vocab is also a little easier.
• Score Sheet
• Results worksheet
• Discussion questions

This was one of those lessons I wanted to do with my students, but I couldn't find a decent printable 'find your perfect job' quiz. So I wrote one based on Myers-Briggs personality types. Students take the test and then get their "perfect career" based on their personality.

Note that I am not a psychologist and this is not a real test, only very loosely based on Myers-Brigg. The results are not real and shouldn't be taken as authoritative

Warm Up

If your students work, is to ask them if they are happy with their jobs and why or why not. Focus on what they do everyday and if it makes them happy.
For schoolchildren, you can ask what job they would like in the future and why. Explain why you teach and how it suits your personality (or doesn't suit it). Then tell them that they are going to take a personality test which will help them decide what their perfect career is.

The Test

Now hand out the Personality Test or the Personality Test for Beginners and the Score Sheet. Go over any unknown vocabulary and then let the students fill out the test using the score sheet. If you don't want to print out the score sheet, make sure the students do fill out their answers in 4 columns going across to make scoring it easier.Emphasize that they should answer truthfully, not based on what they wish were true. They should go with their first instinct.

When the students finish, have them add up the number of A and B answers. Follow the instructions on the Score Sheet to determine their personality type. Go over the vocabulary of personality types particularly in the context of this test:

• Introvert: prefers to be alone, doesn't enjoy the company of others
• Extrovert: prefers to be with others, likes big parties
• Sensing: in this case, it means trusting your physical senses, using your senses
• Intuitive: trusting your intuition
• Feeling: Emotional, in this case
• Thinking: prefering rational thought
• Judging: Here it means analyzing what you see, trusting your analytical skills,
• Perceiving: Relying on what you see and hear over your analysis.

Now hand out the results worksheet and let students read their perfect job. Now go over the discussion questions, including do they like their new job and can they imagine themselves doing it. Lastly students will rate and discuss what is most important in choosing a job.

Check out a related lesson plan, Odd Jobs where students discuss unusual jobs and play a fun guessing game. Makes a nice follow-up to this lesson.

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