Personality Guide Tools in Choosing a Career

Personality is the deeply ingrained and relatively enduring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior. Personality usually refers to which is unique about a person, the characteristics that distinguish that person from other people. It implies predictability about how a person will act or react under particular circumstances.

Your personality greatly affect your choices, including the course you will going to take, the type of job you want to do.  Many people make the mistake of taking up college courses that are not only mismatched with their abilities and skills, but also with their personalities. Thus, they end up shifting courses or, worse, earn a degree only to find out afterwards that they do not have the interest and aptitude in that field.  To avoid making this mistake, it is always advised that student before entering college or a person before applying a job would take career assessment test.  The career assessment test could serve as guide in choosing the ideal career for that person.  Commonly, most exam use John Holland’s Personality Theory, which indicate that a person’s personality determines what job or area he/she will excel most.

To help you in finding what personality dominates you strongly and what type of jobs ideal for you here are some websites (based on both John Holland’s and other personality theories) you can visit.  These sites can help you what career path you would take, and which job you could excel most. 

•  PersonalityType.com (http://www.personalitytype.com/quiz.asp)

PersonalityType.com include quiz to determine if you are an introvert or an extrovert, a sensor or intuitive, a thinker or a feeler or a judger or perceiver. The result of the quiz will suggests the different careers the quiz taker is most likely to succeed in.

• Jung Career Indicator (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp)

It gives a set of quiz. Based on your answers to a set of questions, it determines your personality and identifies the perfect jobs for you.

• Career Key (http://www.careerkey.org/asp/career_options/match_personality.asp)

Career Key website uses Dr. John Holland’s Personalities Theory. It features a detailed description of the different personalities. This website gives out the lists the various jobs suitable for your personality. After you’re finish with the test, the site will then gives a detailed description of what the different jobs entail and what skills and traits you need to excel in them.