Personality tests a key to career happiness?
Many college students have known that sinking feeling: Senior year rolls around and you realize the major you’ve chosen no longer interests you.
Or, even worse — you’ve graduated and entered the workforce, but find yourself staring at your computer monitor in your accounting office wondering why you aren’t a fashion designer.
The best way to detect what field suits an individual is by taking personality tests, according to Laurence Shatkin, author of the book 10 Best Majors for Your Personality.
“People are more conscious than ever of getting a payback on their investment when it comes to school,” Shatkin said. “Quarter-life career change or burnout is becoming a bigger phenomenon than the midlife crisis, an indication that people are in the wrong field.”
The six major personalities that Shatkin describes in his book, each with a list of career suggestions, are: Realistic; investigative; artistic; social; enterprising; and conventional.
Rather than expecting someone to have a disposition of one extreme or another, like introverts and extroverts, Shatkin said people often find themselves within a range on the hexagon explained in his book.
Posted by Wellington Chadehumbe
on August 9, 2008. Filed under Local News.
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