Career and Financial Management Examining Your Personality

Objectives  Analyze how self-concept can affect job performance  Define personality and identify the purpose of taking personality tests  Explore learning styles and their relationship to career selection

Self-Concept  What you know and feel about yourself  Confident, curious, dependable, funny

Healthy Self-Concept In order to have a healthy self-concept you must have:  High self-esteem  A realistic self-concept  A complete self-concept

Self-Concept and Work  Healthy self-concept can lead to success in the workplace

Changing Your Self-Concept  Be honest about your talents  Bragging shows poor self-concept  Know your strengths and weaknesses  Don’t be afraid to ask questions  Improve your self-esteem  Helps others see you positively

The Bottom Line Self-Concept Healthy Contributes to job success Unhealthy Can be improved

Personality  Your unique combination of attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics  Defines who you are  Contradicting personality characteristics  Shy/Outgoing

Personality and Work  Knowing your personality helps you identify natural abilities and potential careers  Some personality types fit a particular career better than others Personality TypesCareer ShySales Curious, IndependentScientist

Personality Tests  One way to explore your personality is to take a personality test  Personality tests help to determine a person’s behavior, thoughts, and feelings  Some employers use personality tests to know the personality traits of potential employees

Employer Personality Tests ADVANTAGES Lower turnover More information about abilities and interests Identify interpersonal traits DISADVANTAGES Some traits hard to measure Doesn't consider training and experience Altered responses

Common Personality Tests  The Big Five Personality Test  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator  Rorschach Ink Blot Test

The Big Five The Big Five test measures the following traits: Openness Open-minded, interest in art, emotional, adventurous, new ideas, curiosity Conscientiousness Typically self-disciplined, result oriented, structured, traditional, dutiful Extraversion High energy level, people person, extrovert, stimulated being around others Agreeableness Compassionate, cooperative, ability to forgive, pragmatic, get things done Neuroticism Sensible, venerable, in extreme: emotional unstable and neurotic Measured in each area and given in a % of how you rank in each area

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator  One of the most popular personality tests  4 ways people are different from one another 1. Energy OrientationIntrovert (I) or Extrovert (E) 2. Taking in informationSensing (S) or Intuitive (N) 3. Decision-makingThinking (T) or Feeling (F) 4. Outer world orientationJudging (J) or Perceiving (P)

Rorschach Ink Blot Test  Person views 10 inkblot images  “Tell me what you see or able to image to be there.”  Responses are analyzed by a psychologist  Can reveal such things as introversion, extroversion, repressed desires, and emotional stability

The Bottom Line Personality Personality Tests The Big FiveMyers-Briggs Rorschach Ink Blot

Learning Styles  Learning Style: the different ways people naturally think and learn  Learning styles affect how we absorb information, solve problems, and act in social settings  Many different theories  Howard Gardner  Multiple intelligences

Garner’s Multiple Intelligences  Verbal/Linguistic  Logical/Mathematical  Visual/Spatial  Rhythmic/Musical  Bodily/Kinesthetic  Interpersonal  Intrapersonal  Naturalistic

Multiple Intelligences Verbal/Linguistic StrengthsBest Way to LearnCareers reading, writing, telling stories, memorizing words, foreign languages saying, hearing, seeing words writers, lawyers, journalists, politicians, and teachers

Logical/Mathematical StrengthsBest Way to LearnCareers experimenting, working with numbers, recognizing patterns, problem solving working with patterns, classifying, making categories scientists, mathematicians, engineers, doctors, and economists Multiple Intelligences

Visual/Spatial StrengthsBest Way to LearnCareers drawing, building, designing, creating things; visualizing and mentally manipulating objects using the mind’s eye; working with colors and pictures; visual organizers architect, artist, engineer, graphic designer, interior designer, photographer

Multiple Intelligences Rhythmic/Musical StrengthsBest Way to LearnCareers singing, humming, playing instruments, enjoys listening to music lecture, use songs or rhythms to memorize information, background music instrumentalists, singers, conductors, disc jockeys, orators, composers, and sales reps

Multiple Intelligences Bodily/Kinesthetic StrengthsBest Way to LearnCareers physical activities, acting, performing, crafts interacting with people and objects, learn by doing athletes, dancers, actors, surgeons, doctors, builders, and soldiers

Multiple Intelligences Interpersonal StrengthsBest Way to LearnCareers sensitive to other’s moods, cooperate with others, empathetic, good communicators, leaders or followers working with others, discussions, debates, comparing, cooperating sales, politicians, managers, teachers, and social workers

Multiple Intelligences Intrapersonal StrengthsBest Way to LearnCareers highly self-aware; understand their own emotions, goals and motivations; pursue personal interests; perfectionists working alone, self-paced instruction, individualized projects psychologist, therapist, counselor, entrepreneur, artist, photographer

Multiple Intelligences Naturalistic StrengthsBest Way to LearnCareers measuring, charting, mapping, observing plants and animals, outdoor activities, keeping a journal recognizing patterns, classifying, hands- on activities astronomer, botanist, wildlife illustrator, meteorologist, chef, gardener, oceanographer, zoologist

What is Your Learning Style?  Everyone possesses characteristics of each intelligence area  One or two that stand out the most

Learning and Life  Learning styles are important for understanding how we learn, but also for helping us through everyday life  Family life, marriage, leisure, work  Being aware of your learning style leads to greater self-knowledge  Maximum success in both work and leisure

The Bottom Line Learning Styles  Verbal/Linguistic  Logical/Mathematical  Visual/Spatial  Rhythmic/Musical  Bodily/Kinesthetic  Interpersonal  Intrapersonal  Naturalistic