I’d like to elaborate on the INTJ Personality Type — one of 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Types — in terms of what INTJ careers are best for the INTJ and their team.
First off, healthy careers for INTJs include the following qualities:
- Fair performance measurement
- Autonomy
- New projects or learnings
- Strategizing
- Control
- Opportunities for creativity
- Things to perfect
I’ve compiled a list of INTJ careers from some books and Web resources…
…there seems to be an INTJ career for everyone!
Top 100 INTJ Careers (check out the most comprehensive list of famous INTJs)
- Academic
- Actor
- Administrator
- Aeronautical engineer
- Aerospace engineer
- Animator
- Anthropologist
- Architect
- Archivist
- Art Director
- Artist
- Astronomer
- Attorney
- Auditor
- Biologist
- Broadcast engineer
- Budget analyst
- Business Administrator
- Business analyst
- Cardiologist
- Cardiovascular technician
- Chemical engineer
- City manager
- Civil engineer
- Clergy (Church)
- Columnist
- Commentator
- Computer engineer
- Computer Programmer
- Computer security specialist
- Computer systems analyst
- Consultant
- Controller
- Coroner
- Corporate Strategist
- Corrections officer
- Counselor
- Credit analyst
- Criminologist or ballistics expert
- Critic
- Curator
- Database administrator
- Dentist
- Design engineer
- Desktop publishing specialist
- Economist
- Editor
- Education consultant
- Electrical/electronic technician
- Engineer
- Entrepreneur
- Environmental planner
- Executive
- Exhibit designer/builder
- Financial analyst
- Financial planner
- Geneticist
- Graphic designer
- Human Resources
- Information services developer
- Intellectual properties attorney
- Intelligence specialist
- International banker
- Inventor
- Investment banker
- Java programmer
- Judge
- Lawyer
- Lecturer
- Life scientist
- Local area network (LAN) administrator
- Management consultant
- Marketing specialist
- Mathematician
- Medical Doctor
- Metallurgical engineer
- Microbiologist
- Military Leaders
- Mortgage broker
- Musician
- Network administrator
- Network integration specialist
- Neurologist
- News analyst
- Nuclear engineer
- Nurse
- Operations research analyst
- Organization Builders
- Organization Founder
- Pathologist
- Pharmaceutical researcher
- Pharmacologist
- Photographer
- Physical scientist
- Physicist
- Pilot
- Professor
- Project manager
- Psychiatrist
- Psychologist
- Real estate appraiser
- Researcher
- Social scientist
- Software and systems researcher
- Strategic planner
- Surgeon
- Systems Administrator
- Systems Analyst
- Teacher
- Technical specialist
- Telecommunications security provider
- Trainer
- Treasurer
- Web developer
- Webmaster
- Writer
My favorite book related to personality type careers is Do What You Are by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger.
There are a number of amazing resources out there for INTJ Career information (and I’ve learned and borrowed from many), including these two:
- Ball State University — These guys include INTJ career suggestions along with links to the Bureau of Labor Statistics for job descriptions AND also include the appropriate majors related to INTJs
- Personality Page