Introduction: Coaches are the main pillar of sport teams that assist athletes in the development of their capabilities, responsible for the training athletes and analyze their performance. Therefore,they have an important role in training and physical education and their success also affect the performance of athletes. Coaches prosperous from some personality traits could have establish closer relations with athletics. In between these dimensions, extroversion greatest impact on guidance athletes and coaches social, good-natured, energetic and dauntless, relationship problems fewer reported.
Methodology: The purpose of the present research is to determine the relation between personality type with internal and external job success of selected sport coaches in Kermanshah city. For this reason, 204 man and woman coaches of Kermanshah are participated as sample in the research. In order to the collected data, Izenks personality test, Nebi’s job success scale (2011), and individual characteristics questionnaire are used. Data using analysis of variance, correlation and regression analysis were analyzed.
Results: The results showed that there are significant relationship between personality type with internal and external job success, sex with internal job success, coaching experience with job success, and coaching experience with internal job success. The result also showed that there is no significant relationship between coaching degree with external job success, sex with external job success , coaching experience external job success.
Discussion: According to present research findings people’s personality can be related with internal and external job success. In fact, personality can through factors three job choice, job operation and job communication affected on job successful .Therfore job choice appropriate to people’s personality characteristics influence their job success.