The Intellectual (INTJ)

 

Decisive, innovative, insightful, and logical, they have a plan for everything. They’re able to apply their big-picture thinking along with their problem-solving skills, which makes them best-suited for work in very technical careers like architecture, science, and engineering.

Career Options

Investment Banker

Professional Description

Investment bankers help their clients raise money in capital markets by issuing debt or selling equity in the companies. Other job duties include assisting clients with mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and advising them on unique investment opportunities. They help their clients make money through profitable decision making and in depth knowledge of the financial market.This is one of the few careers in which a 22-year-old with nothing but a bachelor’s degree can earn well into the six figures in his first year out of school. However, the catch is, you have to be really clever, be good with numbers and forecasting.

  • Advising clients on investment opportunities
  • Supervising transactions
  • Helping Clients understand market conditions
  • Maximize profitability
  • Listening to clients and their needs
  • Analyst
  • Associate
  • Managing Director
  • Vice president
  • Account manager

Financial Advisor

Professional description

This is exactly what the name suggests – a person who offers financial advice to their clients. This could be from investments, buying property, children’s education, retirement and so on. Fact; In 2016, financial advisors earned a median annual salary of $90,530. If you’re good with economics, accounting and analyzing numbers, thus predicting future outcomes, this is an extremely profitable field to get into. Financial advisors work with different business, companies and people.

 

  • Interpreting large amounts of data.
  • Assess impacts of different decisions
  • Conduct regular research and presentations on future scenarios
  • Assess clients’ assets, liabilities, cash flow, insurance coverage, tax status, and financial objectives to establish investment strategies.
  • Financial consultant
  • Wealth Manager
  • Loan Officer
  • Fundraiser
  • Credit Counsellor

Engineers

Profession description

Engineers are people who build, design or maintain machines or structures to meet objectives and requirements. They do this keeping in mind all practicality, logistics, safety and costs.

 

They work in a variety of fields to analyze, develop and evaluate large-scale, complex systems. They are the backbone for different systems present nowadays. If you have a gift with maths, physics, love testing new boundaries and have a methodological mind, this is the career path for you!

  • Mechanical Skills
  • Creativity
  • Math Skills
  • Listening Skills
  • Problem Solving ability
  • Chemical Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Civil Engineers
  • Computer Engineers
  • Environmental Engineers

Architects

Profession description

Did you know the Mughals are considered some of the best architects in the world? They amalgamated aesthetics, physics, Islamic ideology and communal living into their structures. They had a lot of foresight as well, for instance, King Aurangzeb built the pillars of Badshahi Masjid at a slight outward angle so that if ever there were an earthquake, the pillars would fall outside and not inside on a congregation inside the mosque. Essentially, being an architect means to effectively ‘play’ with ‘space’.

 

Architects create designs for new construction projects, alterations and redevelopments. They use their specialist construction knowledge and high-level drawing skills to design buildings that are functional, safe, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing.

Architects stay involved throughout the construction process, adapting their plans according to budget constraints, environmental factors or client needs. As such, they operate as part of an overall project design team, working closely with a range of construction professionals from quantity surveyors to building services engineers.

  • Create architectural designs based on customer input and feedback
  • Adjust contracts and designs to meet the changing needs of clients
  • Draft designs that reflect green building values and cater to clients’ desires for smaller carbon footprint
  • Communicate with contractors and construction workers to implement designs
  • Oversee and manage architectural production staff
  • Technical Architect
  • Design Architect
  • BIM Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Sustainability Consultant
  • Workplace Consultant
  • Landscape Architects
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