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The best careers for your personality type

Jacquelyn Smith
Careers Editor, Business Insider

Ever wonder why you’ve always been drawn to the idea of becoming a veterinarian or microbiologist? Or why you’re convinced you’d be happy as a landscape architect or teacher?

Your personality type has a lot to do with why you fancy some jobs over others. And that’s why understanding your personality type could be a key factor in finding the career that makes you happy.

To help, Truity Psychometrics, a provider of online personality and career assessments, and the developer of the TypeFinder personality type assessment, put together an infographic with the details of the four dimensions of personality type, as well as suggestions for ideal jobs for each:

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This article is published in collaboration with Business Insider. Publication does not imply endorsement of views by the World Economic Forum.

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Author: Jacquelyn Smith joined Business Insider as the Careers Editor in February 2014. 

Image: Job offers are seen in this illustration in Milan April 3, 2012. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo.

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