How to Improve Careers with Personality Traits

How We Enjoy Life is Determined by How We Interact With It.

Understanding your personality type will improve your career choice and enhance your performance at work, but more importantly improve your life. . Many of us find ourselves wondering why I hate my job, and what career is right for me? It helps to understand your personality type to determine, how you like to work, where you like to work, what your passions are, what motivates you. It's not as simple as it sounds, that's why many people today find themselves less than satisfied in their current career choices and life. If you are in college deciding on a major, in a job that is not satisfying, or are looking for a new career, take these tests to help you understand what will make you happy. This article will explain some key personality factors, will help you find the resources to explore your own personality type, so that you can find the career of your dreams and live the life you were meant to live. It's not really about the money, although we can't get by without it, but we can live with less if we are happy. It's about your style, your passions, your dreams. Oprah found her passion and got rich doing what she loved. Would she be happy without all the money? I think so. I think for her it was the desire to help people, in a way that satisfied her needs, more than making billions. It's about satisfaction in ourselves and our accomplishments, being needed and fulfilling our dreams. Too many rich people today are not really happy just successful. Your life is a collection of memories, when you die, if your memories are full of passion and happiness, then you are the richest person in the world. Memories are all you take with you when you leave this plane of existence and move to the next.

Things You'll Need

• Desire to seek the truth
• Internet
• Local job search centers

Instructions

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   Take Personality typing tests to determine your dominate traits.
   Are you an Introvert or Extravert? Think of a sliding scale of 1 through 10 1 being totally introvert and 10 totally extravert most people fall somewhere in-between. Understanding your placement on the scale will help you understand how your energy levels are supplied. Introverts regenerate their energy levels alone. They need quiet time and introspection to re-energize. They draw their power from within. That does not mean that an introvert can not be a successful actor or salesperson, it only means that they must have quiet time to regenerate their source. Extraverts re-energize off of sources surrounding them, they like to be around high energy and high activity, again that doesn't mean that an extravert wouldn't make a great novelist or researcher, it only means they will need time around others to re-energize. By understanding what your dominant type is will help you choose a career that feeds your inner source so that you are always well energized. Most of this information can be found by taking the MBTI Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test (see link). Most colleges and job placement centers offer this test, or you can take one yourself on the Internet. (see links) The key for true assessment is being totally honest with yourself when taking the tests. Don't answer the questions how you think you should, or would like to, but how you really feel. E.g. I always wanted to be considered spontaneous, but the reality is, I'm not! Be honest with yourself.

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   Take a Interest Inventory test to find your intuitive passions.
   Did you ever have a passion for a particular career as a child? Most of us have. Think about that career, likely it will help you identify some key interest characteristics you were intuitively drawn to before life had a chance to confuse you. A teacher, doctor, nurse, mother, or firefighter. Many of these careers have components that excite and drive you. SCII Strong Campbell Interest Inventory test can help you identify some career choice interests. Mine was an oceanographer. I wanted to be the next Jacques Cousteau, research is in my blood, I love solving problems and finding answers. It wasn't really about swimming in the sea and studying fish, it was the discovery of new information and data. I know that now, but for years I felt I had missed my calling. I'm an introvert, but for a decade I was in a high contact sales position. I was extremely successful in sales, not because I enjoyed being around people - I hated it - but because I could find answers and solve my customers problems. Data and things are what excite me - what excites you ? Find that and use it to create the career of your dreams

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   Utilize local workshops or Internet testing sites for Career Planning(See link) Locate a Life/Planning Workshop in your area. Many unemployment offices can help you, either they offer one or can point you in the right direction to find one. They offer these tests along with coaching to analyze and interpret the data.

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   Learn to Manage your money so life is not about it, but rather about you. Try not to focus on money or things when choosing a career, these are likely only filling a void you have within yourself, one that is better filled living your own dreams. We all have need for money, some of us have created a greater need than others, we have families to feed and care for, or sick relatives that need us, but like Oprah if you can find your passion and be highly driven in it you can get rich doing what you love. You can also get rich slowly by living frugally and staying focused. (See Link). We all have key strengths in our personality types and learning to utilize those strength to choose a career will help create a happier life.

Tips & Warnings

• Make quality memories the currency of your life and you will leave a legacy that many will admire. C. S. Thomas

• Be honest when taking any assessment test

Resources

• Myers Briggs Organization
• Pay for tests
• Free tests -opt out features
• David Bach
• Robert Kiyosaki