Learning Styles and Careers
1.02 Understanding Personality
and Learning Styles
Learning Styles
The ways
you process
information
and learn
best
 Verbal/Linguistic
 Logical/Mathematical
 Bodily/Kinesthetic
 Visual/Spatial
 Musical/Rhythmic
 Intrapersonal
 Interpersonal
 Naturalistic
Verbal/Linguistic
 Related to:
 Strengths/Learns Best:
Words and language
Communication Skills
 Preferences:
Listening Skills
They prefer written and
Saying, hearing,
spoken words
seeing words
Large vocabularies
 Common Careers:
Using flash cards
Politicians
 Related Personality
Public Speakers
Types:
Physical/Occupational
Helper
Therapists
Persuader
Journalists & Writers
Teachers
Logical/Mathematical
 Related to:
 Strengths/Learns Best:
Math and logic
Recognize patterns
 Preferences:
Categories
Take things apart and
Numbers
put them back together
Equations
 Common Careers:
 Related Personality
Medicine
Types:
Law Enforcement
Thinker
Science and
Organizer
Mathematics
Accounting
Bodily/Kinesthetic
 Related to:
Using senses (sight,
touch, etc…)
 Preferences:
Take things apart/put
things together
See how things work
 Common Careers:
Physical therapist
Athletics
Crafter
Carpenter
Mechanic
 Strengths/Learns
Best:
Hands on projects
Athletics
Doing
 Related Personality
Types:
Doer
Creator
Visual/Spatial
 Related to:
Using mental images
and sight
 Preferences:
They prefer to SEE
things when learning
 Common Careers:
Artist
Photographers
Teachers
Interior Designers
 Strengths/Learns Best:
Diagrams and Charts
Handouts
Color, Pictures, and
Maps
Mazes
 Related Personality
Types:
Creator
Organizer
Musical/Rhythmic
 Related to:
Related to thinking in
terms of music and
rhythm
 Preferences:
Rhythm and Melodies
 Common Careers:
Musician
Teacher
Performer
Record Producer
 Strengths/Learns Best:
Relates information to
music and rhythm
Noticing sounds
Instruments
 Related Personality
Types:
Creator
Doer
Intrapersonal/Self
 Related to:
Intra=within
Personal=self
 Preferences:
Working alone or
Independently
 Common Careers:
Writer
Researcher
Pharmacy
Self-employment
 Strengths/Learns
Best:
Setting goals
Self aware
 Related Personality
Types:
Doer
Thinker
Organizer
Interpersonal/Social
 Related to:
 Strengths/Learns Best:
Relationships with
Confident
others
Trustworthy
 Preferences:
Talking through thought
process
Teamwork
Sharing ideas
 Common Careers:
Use emotion and
Counseling
intuition
Teaching & Coaching  Related Personality
Types:
Politics
Helper
Sales
Persuader
Human resource
Doer
Naturalistic
 Related to:
 Strengths/Learns Best:
Nature and environment Animals, Plants,
 Preferences:
Nature
Being in nature
Environment
 Common Careers:
Universe/Space
Veterinarian
Weather
Landscaper
 Related Personality
Meteorologist,
Types:
Conservationist,
Researcher, Astronomer, Helper
Botanist
Thinker