Understanding the Keirsey Career Temperament Report

The Keirsey Career Temperament (KTS) is designed to help you understand yourself and how your temperament shapes your career. The report is well known for assisting career professionals, job seekers, and students in the career exploration process.

KTS offers expert advice on career options, communication tips, interpersonal skills, and custom insights for navigating the job market. Likewise, KTS provides suggested career matches, based on research surveys conducted across a wide spectrum of industry.

Topics KTS Explores

• Understanding You and Your Career
• Learning About Your Temperament in the Workplace
• Choosing the Best Occupation

KTS' stance when it comes to personality is the following: in a world filled with unique individuals, there are only four different temperaments.

Under those four main personality types exist 16 different types of people. Understanding these personality types and mastering your own can be the keys to achieving your goals.

Four KTS Personality Types

• Artisan (30% to 35% of population) - Artisans are typically bold, spontaneous individuals.
• Guardian (40% to 45% of population) - Guardians are typically helpful and dutiful.
• Idealist (15% to 20% of population) - Idealists are typically spiritual and intuitive.
• Rational (5% to 10% of population) - Rationals are typically ingenious and independent.

So, when does it make sense to use KTS?

Selecting a Career Path

Understanding how you ‘tick’ is key when evaluating potential career paths. KTS includes suggested career matches across a broad range of industries, based on the individual personality type.

Making a Career Change

Unhappiness, burnout, and fatigue are key motivators for those seeking career change. Feeling this way is avoidable. But, it requires understanding your own personality and using that information to evaluate potential career paths that compliment your natural traits and tendencies. This is where KTS adds value to those seeking to shift careers.

Job Interviews and Salary Negotiation

KTS offers tips on communication and interpersonal skills, based on individual personality type. This information is useful for refining and improving your performance during job interviews. By understanding your own personality type, you possess the knowledge to convince the interviewer why you’re best suited for the open role.