IQ career personality test

FROM CHAPTER THREE:"WHAT MAKES YOU TICK?"

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"...Knowledge work and the ISFS temperament

People of all temperaments are capable of being knowledge creators, providers or users of knowledge.

Temperament does have a major bearing on the way we prefer to work.

If you have the motivation, desire and interest your temperament will not limit what sort of knowledge worker you might aspire to be.

There are two major challenges for you in the new economy. The first is to adapt to the fast changing pace of life.

This will depend upon having some understanding of why changes are taking place, and will involve looking beyond the surface appearance of things.

You are the sort of person who learns best by practical hands on activity. You want to be involved in day to day activities solving practical problems or creating tangible products.

You build up your knowledge of how things work as a result of your practical experience.

You are inclined to be impatient with theories and ideas.

Your practical experience becomes the basis of the rules you have for your work and life.

There has been a great deal of automation and new work procedures have been introduced and made much of the old experience of many people irrelevant.

This sort of change can destroy the basis upon which practically minded people operate.

Many people run the serious risk of having to start all over again, but this need not be the case if you take sensible precautions.

This leads to the second big challenge for you, because one of the main precautions you can take is to develop your ability to think in terms of theories and ideas.

The new economy is tending to reward those who can figure out the cause of problems and then solve the problem.

This often requires a different type of thinking that may not come naturally to you.

This is thinking from ideas and theories to complement your practical experience. The trick is to combine both methods of thinking.

If you make the effort to develop an understanding of the broader aspects of your work it will be easier for you to solve the sort of problems that are part and parcel of the new economy.

We all have the capacity to think in this way, and with practice you will be able to improve in this area.

ISFS and stress

You don’t like things to be too unpredictable. You like to have control over your space and the activities you are involved in.

You will resist change and can be stressed if you lose control over the activities you have planned.

You especially don’t like having change sprung on you. In today’s conditions you should keep your eyes and ears open for potential changes and give yourself time to make the adjustments required.

It will help you to make sure you find out the proper and adequate reasons for changes that are to be introduced.

You are often prone to worry and be over protective.

This is associated with attempts to prevent problems for you and others. This worrisome tendency can cause others to also feel stress and can make matters worse. Your natural inclination is to want to provide and protect and you can sometimes over commit yourself.

Sometimes if your attempts to help are not welcome you can feel that you are rejected. This can lead to stress. Sometimes you need to take time out and do some things for yourself.

If too many negative things occur within a short period of time then you can view the world as out of control.

This calls for the need for time out so you can get some balance and a true perspective back into your life."

Reference: IQ career personality test

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