Career Guidance for 13 Personality Types

Your personality's DNA, as assessed and measured by the world's most accurate and reliable personality test and psychometric assessment, the Core Values Index™, defines your default behavior and your preferred way of seeing the world and acting within it.

What better way to to determine your ideal career path than spending 8 minutes to take the CVI?

How Does the CVI Work

The Core Values Index determines how much of four personality categories called core value energies exist within your personality's DNA. Each is represented by a score between 0 (none) and 36 (maximum).

The sum of your four core value energies scores will always equal 72, so this means when one core value energy is high within your personality profile, one or more of the other three will be correspondingly lower.

It is your particular ratio of core value energies — of which there are millions of combinations — combined with your particular life experience that makes you truly unique.

How To Use the CVI

To get started, complete the CVI. It takes about 8 minutes to complete and costs less than $50.

In your CVI report, you'll see a chart that looks something like this example. It will present your four core value energy scores.

If your CVI chart is square, you have a well-rounded CVI profile. Most people have one particular core value energy with a higher score than the rest. This is your primary core value energy.

Whichever core value energy is second-highest is your secondary core value energy. We provide brief descriptions of the 12 different primary/secondary core value energy combinations below.

When you complete your CVI, you get a Personalized Career Guide that provides career planning advice and ideal jobs unique to your particular CVI personality type.

4 Core Values Energies

Here is a quick summary of the four core value energies and their catalytic values. Catalytic values can be considered secondary traits of each core value.

Your CVI report details how much of these four core value energies exist within your personality profile.

• Builder: Power and action, with a catalytic value of faith. The Builder never lacks confidence and faith in their intuitive trust that they know what to do and will always know what to do next.
• Merchant: Love and connectedness, with a catalytic value of truth. Truth is having a clear view of what is real and an intuitive and rational understanding of the way things are.
• Innovator: Wisdom with a catalytic value of compassion. An Innovator's compassion helps them remain empathetic and curious regardless of the behavior of others.
• Banker: Knowledge, with a catalytic value of justice. This means the Banker ensures equity of access, accountability, compensation, and opportunity.

Unless they share the same score, your primary core value energy is the dominant force behind your personality, but your secondary core value influences it.

To get you started, we describe the high-level characteristics of the 12 primary/secondary core value energy combinations plus a brief description of what it means if you have a well-rounded CVI profile.

13 Personality Types

Builder/Merchant

Few individuals lead others as boldly and confidently as Builder/Merchants. The figurative and sometimes literal monuments they build are nothing without the appreciation of others. Think NFL quarterback.

Builder/Innovator

Builders like to get things done and their Innovator secondary core value motivates them to eagerly tackle the most challenging problems. Builder/Innovators are the most independent of the 12 primary/secondary profile combinations. They act boldly and confidently in creative and innovative ways. Think Han Solo.

Builder/Banker

Getting things done, as driven by their primary Builder energy, is most valuable when it is based on facts and knowledge as specified by their Banker secondary core value. They act confidently but with a strong sense of justice and truth. Think FBI agent.

Merchant/Innovator

The drive for the Merchant to connect with others is enhanced by their Innovator's desire to solve problems, coupled with their Innovator's catalytic value of compassion. They are highly creative. Think elementary school teacher.

Merchant/Banker

Merchants are driven to connect with others, and their Banker energy motivates them to act through a foundation of knowledge and justice. They have an organized approach to group activities. Think community organizer.

Merchant/Builder

Merchants are all about love and connections with others, and their Builder secondary core value energy gives them confidence to get things done. They are excellent motivators and leaders. Think corporate executive or Princess Lea.

Innovator/Banker

Take a wise and problem-solving Innovator, then add a healthy dose of the Banker's drive to gather knowledge. They will tackle challenging problems with well-researched solutions. Think software developer.

Innovator/Builder

Innovators like to solve problems, and their Builder secondary core value confidently drives them to get things done. They often prefer to act independently. Think military commando or truck driver.

Innovator/Merchant

Innovator/Merchants love to solve problems along with a need to connect with others, enhanced by their compassion and perspective of truth. These folks are often highly creative and compassionate. Think pediatrician or graphic designer.

Banker/Builder

Bankers love nothing more than to gather and share knowledge with a strong sense of justice. Their Builder secondary core value motivates them to do so in an action-oriented and definitive manner. Think circuit court judge.

Banker/Merchant

The knowledge gained and shared by the Banker is done so with the loving and truthful connectedness of their Merchant secondary core value. They take delight in sharing their knowledge with others. Think librarian.

Banker/Innovator

A bit more studious and cautious than their Innovator/Banker cousins, the Banker/Innovator places a higher value in gathering facts and knowledge before solving problems, driven by their secondary Innovator core value. Think marine biologist.

Well Rounded

Many people have well-rounded CVI profiles. Their scores, especially their primary and secondary core value energies, are the same or within a few points of each other. Because their core value energies are "close by and handy," they find that they can fit in and excel in most situations.

Is it a bad thing to be well-rounded? Not at all! The world needs people who can flex and change and adapt to a variety of situations and challenges.

(See The Fallacy of Being Well-rounded)

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