Professional Personality and Career Planning

Personality is the sum of relatively stable psychological characteristics in a person’s attitude towards reality and behavior. Professional personality is the individual psychological characteristics shown by a person's stable attitude towards the profession and the habitual behavior in professional activities. It is of great significance to the individual's career planning.

Each of us has our own unique personality. In other words, everyone has different psychological characteristics and different styles and ways of looking at problems and handling things. Some people are enthusiastic and cheerful; some people are steady and steady; some people are hot-tempered; some people are cautious and suspicious? But no one is perfect and no one is perfect. If a person is deficient in one aspect, he must be superior in other aspects. Department, maybe it is your magic weapon to win.

Personality has an important impact on career planning for the following reasons:

1. Personality is a core part of an individual’s personality and almost involves a person’s psychological process and All aspects of personality traits are closely related to career.

Personality makes a person prefer one kind of environment to another. Due to different personalities, each person also shows different personalized styles in the process of cognizing different environments. If you engage in a job that does not match your personality, your personal talents will be hindered and you will feel that the entire work situation is wrong. The traits that make you successful in one career may make you frustrated in another. Therefore, when choosing a career, we should try our best to fully consider whether our personality characteristics are compatible with career requirements, so that we can satisfy our unique desires at work, develop our unique abilities, and utilize our personal capital. , experience more happiness and pleasure.

Career planning experts, a small experiment can illustrate this point. You sign your name on a piece of paper or on the edge of a book. Then say: Is it done? OK. Now sign again with the other hand. If you feel awkward, that's right, because most people will say after signing for the first time that it was natural, easy, quick, and effortless. But what about when you switch to the other hand? Some classic answers are slow, awkward, difficult, sore, tiring, takes a long time, and requires more energy and thought. Career planners believe handedness is a good example of the importance of finding a career that matches your personality. You will feel comfortable and confident using your dominant hand; if you are forced to use the other hand, it will certainly expand your abilities but it will never be as flexible as before, and the results will certainly not be the same. So satisfying.

2. In terms of career development, character is more important than ability

Employers gradually realize that character is more important than ability in selecting people. This understanding has become quite popular abroad. The reason is that if a person's ability is insufficient, it can be improved through training. If it doesn't work in one year, it will take two years; if it doesn't work in two years, it can always be developed in three years. But it is difficult to change a person's personality if it does not match his occupation or position. Therefore, when the company recruits new people, it puts personality testing first. When the personality matches the occupation or position, its ability will be tested. If the personality does not match the occupation or position, no matter how high the degree or ability, the candidate will not be hired.

3. Personality does not matter whether it is good or bad. The key is whether it is placed in the right place. Each type of personality has a corresponding career scope. Research in occupational psychology shows that different professions require practitioners with different personalities, and a certain type of professional work can reflect a certain type of different professional personality.

For example, sensitive people are full of energy, restless and active, and like to solve problems quickly, but their behavior is often blind and sometimes emotionally unstable. Occupational scope of this type of people includes athletes, administrators and general occupations. Emotional people are rich in emotions, expressive of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. They do not like monotonous life, love stimulation, love emotional things, and are very interested in new things. Suitable careers for this type of people include actors, tour guides, activists, caregivers, etc. Thinking-type people are good at thinking, have developed logical thinking, have relatively mature views, have regular life and work, and have a strong sense of time. They value the accuracy of investigation and research, but sometimes their thoughts are rigid and lack flexibility. Suitable occupations for this type of people include engineers, teachers, financial personnel and data processing personnel.

Imaginative people have rich imaginations, look forward to the future, and like to think about problems. They sometimes behave in a rigid manner and are not easy to be gregarious. Suitable occupations for this type of people include scientific workers, technical researchers, artistic workers, writers, etc. Are there many more?

Therefore, personality is usually the key factor when planning your career.