Personality and choice of profession
One of the most important decisions you have to take over life is a choice of profession. Professional success depends largely on the relationship between personality factors and work content.
Theory of choosing your profession of John Holland is one of the best known theories. He speaks about 6 different private structures with different pitches to various professions:
1. Type realistic - prefer activities that involve working with equipment and machinery of any kind.
2. Type researcher - prefer activities that are based on observation, research, analysis, evaluation and resolution of problems.
3. Type artist - prefer activities based on nonconformity, creativity, imagination and unstructured work environments.
4. Social type - inclined to work with human activities, support and advice, and avoiding activities that include machines and equipment
5. Type entrepreneur - inclined towards activities of influence, persuasion and leadership to others
6. Conventional type - inclined to work with figures activities and documents, detailed, based on clear instructions.
Starting from theories of personality types, there has been made a series of assessment tools, which were aimed at extracting information on interest in certain types of professional activities, attitudes towards people, objects or data (numbers, information ), ability to think logically and creatively; persuasive linguistic capabilities.
Most people are a combination of several types, so it is very likely to demonstrate interest in several occupational categories. Instead, only a preference for one or another field of activity is not sufficient and should taken into account the capacity of developing practical skills to perform these activities.
Self-knowledge is the best way to begin to think about the right career.
Here are some practical steps towards self-knowledge:
1. Make a detailed list of all the activities you like to do every day-meeting with people, read, solve problems, listening to music, watching movies etc..
2. Think of previous experience. Personal qualities are evident since childhood, so you can remember your favorite games at an early age. What would you like to play most often? What role you had in the game - a leader or organizer or simply a member of the team? Or maybe you prefer self-employment?
3. What you do in your spare time? How you spend your weekends? Analysis of these activities will give a representation of interest you like, physical activities or rather prefer to communicate with people.
Theory of choosing your profession of John Holland is one of the best known theories. He speaks about 6 different private structures with different pitches to various professions:
1. Type realistic - prefer activities that involve working with equipment and machinery of any kind.
2. Type researcher - prefer activities that are based on observation, research, analysis, evaluation and resolution of problems.
3. Type artist - prefer activities based on nonconformity, creativity, imagination and unstructured work environments.
4. Social type - inclined to work with human activities, support and advice, and avoiding activities that include machines and equipment
5. Type entrepreneur - inclined towards activities of influence, persuasion and leadership to others
6. Conventional type - inclined to work with figures activities and documents, detailed, based on clear instructions.
Starting from theories of personality types, there has been made a series of assessment tools, which were aimed at extracting information on interest in certain types of professional activities, attitudes towards people, objects or data (numbers, information ), ability to think logically and creatively; persuasive linguistic capabilities.
Most people are a combination of several types, so it is very likely to demonstrate interest in several occupational categories. Instead, only a preference for one or another field of activity is not sufficient and should taken into account the capacity of developing practical skills to perform these activities.
Self-knowledge is the best way to begin to think about the right career.
Here are some practical steps towards self-knowledge:
1. Make a detailed list of all the activities you like to do every day-meeting with people, read, solve problems, listening to music, watching movies etc..
2. Think of previous experience. Personal qualities are evident since childhood, so you can remember your favorite games at an early age. What would you like to play most often? What role you had in the game - a leader or organizer or simply a member of the team? Or maybe you prefer self-employment?
3. What you do in your spare time? How you spend your weekends? Analysis of these activities will give a representation of interest you like, physical activities or rather prefer to communicate with people.
[posted by : OFP on Aug. 16, 2010]
TAGS: work, career, profession