career aptitude test - like Myers Briggs Type Indicator® system

FROM CHAPTER THREE:"WHAT MAKES YOU TICK?"

(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.)

"...Why is it important to know your temperament type?

The last thing you want - in the demanding work environments of the knowledge age - is to be stuck in a role that is not suited to your temperament.

It’s like using a tool for something that it’s not designed for. Have you ever tried to use a knife when you couldn’t find a screwdriver?

Firstly, it doesn’t do a very good job, and secondly it ends up ruining the knife.

People are similar. When they do what they are not designed to do, they don’t perform very well and eventually they break.

For example, someone who likes to work by themselves, and to a schedule, will find it very stressful working with others in a disorganized environment.

That’s why an understanding or your temperment type is another crucial pre-requisite to understanding your Authentic Direction.

KEY ASPECTS OF ISFS TEMPERAMENT

Potential strengths: responsible, dedicated, dutiful, respectful, not competitive, organized, reliable, sympathetic, quiet.

Potential limitations: can get bogged down in detail and would benefit by reflecting on the big picture and the underlying meanings, can find change daunting.

What does the fact that you are an “ISFS” mean for your career?

You tend to be a reflective and thoughtful person, rather than wanting highly charged activity with others, or high power events and activities. It is important for you to try and understand situations before charging into things.

Your preference is for social interaction on a small scale: one on one or small groups.

You prefer work that requires careful observation and execution, based on remembering facts and details acquired as a result of your experience.

Your preference is to work on projects with tangible outcomes, which help other people.

You are quite happy to work behind the scenes, but you appreciate having your contribution recognized and rewarded.

Innovation and rapid, unexpected change are not natural for your temperament, but you are good at identifying problems associated with the new and innovative. Many innovators often overlook the problems that naturally occur to you.

You are then able to use your practical approach to solving those problems. However you should beware of raising these problems in a way that might seem obstructive.

This is a sure way to the road to redundancy.

If used positively this aspect of your temperament can be a great advantage.

The strongest feature of your temperament is your practical approach to dealing with your work that is consistent with your values and preferably in ways that help other people. You like to use your abilities in ways that solve people’s real and practical problems and at the same time build rapport with them.

You are able to work on your own, but you prefer a structured and orderly work environment.

Your practical approach needs to be balanced by the need to look at the possibilities and to strengthen your intuitive capabilities as well as tempering a tendency to inflexibility.

You are likely to experience tensions until decisions are made and can sometimes be a little hasty in your decision making. You should avoid making decisions too quickly until you have a firm grasp of all the details.

You tend to make decisions on the basis of how the outcome will affect others, but sometimes you have to put this aside and assess the situation from a more objective and logical standpoint."

Reference: Career aptitude test - like Myers Briggs Type Indicator® system

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