How To Get The Job You Really
Really Want - Your Personality
Ooooh, touchy! Well, not really, not when we are
looking at things from a career perspective anyway. The questions
here are quite interesting, and starting to look at things from a
slightly different angle.
What type of person are you?
In what kinds of situations
are you most...
productive, fulfilled,
satisfied?
From these answers you will be putting another major
piece of the puzzle into place as far as helping you decide in which
job role / career you would be truly happy.
The recruitment industry has a nasty habit of
pigeon-holing people. Remember I told you about being a BANKER. I
don't suppose you can blame the recruitment industry because
companies do like people to have "done the job before", and it does
make it easier for recruitment consultants to "place" candidates.
Just as an aside here, recruitment consultants are not good at
finding a change of career direction for you. This is not their
fault; it is because people do get "type-cast". Not just by their
job title or function, but also by their personality as well.
You've heard it, "Oh, he really is the banking type". What
is the banking type? - Search me. You hear it said about any
profession or job role you care to think of, particular favourites
are;-
Having worked in a bank for a while, I met bankers of
all possible personality types. I met friendly sorts, cold
bankers (you know the sort who make you feel like a criminal for a
£2.34 overdraft and then charges you £35 for the letter to tell
you!), flamboyant bankers, quiet bankers and noisy ones. In
fact, all sorts. I therefore submit, this being the case in any
industry or occupation, that this pigeon-holing is a load of old
clap-trap! There, I'll get off my soap box now.
From the above it follows that all personality types
have their place in any given working environment.
However, it is true to say that certain personality
traits (and their implications) are better suited to certain job
requirements.
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