An overview of your personal characteristics and career strengths
IN TERMS OF ENTERPRISING VS SUPPORT ROLE POSSIBILITIES
You would be described as extremely competitive, enterprising, assertive, aggressive, tough minded, determined and goal oriented. You may display new and creative ways to reach your personal and work objectives and you will be self-evaluative and sometimes critical of your own performance. Given an aim, objective or requirement, you would be able to develop your own plan, manage your time and focus your effort on a daily basis to reach your goals. Being a self-manager should come very naturally to you and these skills should be refined through formal training and/or on-the-job experience.
IN TERMS OF YOUR STYLE AND STRENGTH OF VARIOUS MOTIVATIONS
People would see you as being an achieving person, one who can be quite hard driving, eager, active and occasionally impatient. Challenge for you can involve doing some things simply because they are demanding, and many things because they have a concrete financial reward, but you will occasionally accept a challenge because it has a ‘people-oriented’ element to it. Financial rewards are important to you but sometimes you direct your energies towards things which have no payoff for you but which have this ‘people-oriented’ focus. You evaluate how well you are doing in life and in your career by what you earn, by how you feel about yourself and by the good you have done for others.
IN TERMS OF YOUR INDEPENDENCE VS YOUR NEED TO BE IN THE ‘TEAM’
You would be described as somewhat strong-minded, stubborn, demanding, firm, independent and resolute. You can accept moderate levels of supervision, and in these circumstances, you would develop some practical alternatives for achieving objectives. A great deal of detail work or work with little inherent responsibility would not be the kind of work to which you would give your greatest commitment and best all-round performance.
IN TERMS OF YOUR ORIENTATION TOWARDS THE ‘PEOPLE’ SIDE OF BUSINESS
You would be described as extremely sociable, entertaining, cheerful, genial and outgoing. In addition to being a fluent talker, you would be comfortable with new people, value social interaction and make new friends easily. Generally, you would be a good company representative and have the ability to communicate with a wide variety of people in a number of different functions. Being extremely sociable could make you somewhat sensitive to rejection.
IN TERMS OF YOUR ORIENTATION TOWARDS TECHNICAL AND PRACTICAL CONCERNS
You would be described as quite logical, reflective, analytical, factual and practical. A job requiring the solving of intellectual or conceptual problems would stimulate a person such as yourself. You would have a flair for technically oriented and detailed work. Taking on challenges to learn and use new information in a field that interests you would be rewarding in itself.
THINGS TO LOOK FOR AND THINGS TO AVOID IN A JOB/CAREER SEARCH
WHAT SHOULD YOU LOOK FOR IN A JOB/CAREER THAT MATCHES YOU BEST?
- Look for opportunities to create your own work structure and to develop your self-management skills by training in time management and activity planning. The opportunity to put solid effort into the job each day is a real plus for you as you know that effort invested consistently will produce the results you seek in both productivity and recognition.
- Look for a career path in which there is challenge that you evaluate has importance as a way of earning a good income, as a way of providing yourself and which has some real ‘people-oriented’ values in it.
- Look for opportunities to work under only moderate supervision so that you may continue to develop your relatively independent approach to your work. In a team situation, expect to be in an occasional leadership role.
- Look for employment that provides you with lots of people contact on a daily basis. A job with a great deal of person to person interaction and public relations opportunities would be ideal for you.
- A job with some learning and technical requirements would be quite satisfying. The opportunity to be creative and to put your new found knowledge into action would also be appealing to you.
WHAT SHOULD YOU AVOID IN JOBS/CAREERS THAT DON’T MATCH YOU?
- Avoid tightly and rigidly structured work situations. If there is no room to put your personal touch to work in organizing and managing yourself, the job may become too constricting for you. Try to avoid jobs that may limit your self-management skills development which is a very strong need in you for your personal productivity and your sense of satisfaction with any job.
- Avoid positions which are essentially non-challenging and repetitive or which you evaluate as being without real social merit. Even some apparently strongly challenging kinds of jobs may not satisfy you if they lack real human values in their purpose.
- Avoid jobs in which you must do it your supervisor’s way indefinitely and which totally lack the opportunity to approach your work in a creative fashion. You need room to exercise some independence and leadership.
- You should avoid employment that would isolate you from people. A job that lacks social interaction would not be adequately stimulating and rewarding to you.
- You should avoid jobs that are not intellectually challenging, creative and those that do not offer a chance for personal growth in a technical or practical sense.
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