Self awareness - Finding yourself finds you a job

It goes without saying that in order to succeed in a job interview, you need to have a strong sense of self-awareness. Who are you? What are you like? What are you good at? What motivates you? How do you behave in different situations?

To help you answers these questions, I recommend taking the Myers Briggs Type indicator (MBTI) test, which is a multiple-choice questionnaire, freely available online in many languages and widely recognised in the fields of psychology and human resources. The test takes about ten minutes to complete and at the end of it your personality, which is categorised into one of sixteen different types, is revealed in a detailed description.


Based on the conceptual theory of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in the 1920s, who had speculated that people experience the world using four main psychological functions – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking, the MBTI was devised by two Americans, Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. The test was first utilised in the 1940s believing that a knowledge of personality styles could help women entering the workforce for the first time.

Today the test is taken by millions of people across the world for various reasons and I believe it is a very useful tool for all job-hunters.

Completing the Myers Briggs test and digesting its results will undoubtedly raise your self-awareness.. In doing so you’re now ready to identify your key competencies (ie. your skills and behaviours) from which you can build an effective job application kit.