Career development free test

FROM CHAPTER TWO: "HOW ARE YOU SMART?":

(Note: this excerpt is taken from someone's personalized ebook. The content of your book would be personalized from your own responses to the FPYC questionnaire which you can begin at the top of this page.)

"...1. Linguistic intelligence

You seem to have a high level of linguistic intelligence.

You can easily absorb information in a linguistic form and use this to communicate. This obviously has very positive implications for your career because the ability to convince, explain and entertain with the use of the spoken and written word is one of the most sought after skills of the new economy.

We now examine this more closely by looking at your specific ability in the two areas which make up linguistic intelligence: verbal language and written language.

1a. Verbal language ability

Your verbal language abilities appear to be very strong. More specifically you seem to be very confident at getting your point across convincingly and clearly explaining matters to others, but not quite so confident at speaking in an entertaining manner.

The fact that you are confident in your ability to get your point across verbally bodes well for you as a worker in the 21st Century.

There's a saying that in the new economy everyone's a salesperson. So even if your career is not directly related to sales, this ability can be useful in furthering your own career progress as well as the interests of your employer.

Being able to clearly explain work related matters to colleagues and clients is important for many types of work in the new economy, so the fact that you are very confident with your ability in this area is a very good sign.

Whatever your field of work, these abilities are becoming more and more important and are core requirements for many positions.

Your reasonable level of confidence with your ability to speak in an entertaining manner is probably a sign that you come across as an interesting person.

This is definitely a positive sign for a worker in the new economy because anything you do to set yourself apart from competition will help your career.

Your responses to the questionnaire suggest that you are reasonably confident in your ability to speak in public. This is positive for your career, because the ability to speak in public is important these days.

1b. Written language ability

Overall your written language abilities appear to be very strong. You seem to have a high degree of confidence when it comes to writing convincing arguments, producing clear written explanations, and writing in an entertaining style.

Your high level of confidence with writing a convincing argument suggests that work in law, advocacy, sales or marketing would be right up your alley.

This ability is still an advantage even if you don't work in any of these areas. The ability of putting a convincing case on paper is one that will be useful to you in many work situations of the new economy.

Writing clear explanations is the most fundamentally important writing ability of the new economy so your high level of ability in this area will be very useful for your career. Much knowledge work involves constantly writing emails, memos and reports and it seems that you would thrive in these types of work situations.

Being able to write in an entertaining manner, which you are able to do, can be a very useful ability to have, even if it is not the core focus of your work. If you haven't already, you could think about becoming a knowledge creator and writing professionally about your area of expertise!"

Reference: Career development free test

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