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Your worst career nightmare is likely to be:
a. Finding yourself in a job where there is no opportunity to advance
b. Having your ideas rejected
c. Being surrounded by incompetent colleagues
d. Organisational change
Your colleagues are mostly likely to describe
you as:
a. Competitive
b. An Airhead who somehow comes up with the most amazing ideas
c. A prickly genius
d. A gracious hard-worker
If you forgot to take something to a meeting it
would most likely be:
a. The willingness to compromise
b. Your pen
c. Nothing, you never forget anything
d. You would be devastated if you forgot anything because you would not want to
let the team down
You consider your greatest career strengths to
be:
a. Your ability to make things happen against all odds
b. Your positive attitude, enthusiasm and ideas
c. Your technical skills and obvious intelligence
d. That you are very hardworking
If you are very honest with yourself you would
most likely consider your career weaknesses as:
a. Being too aggressive and demanding
b. Poor attention to detail
c. Not being a team player
d. Taking on more than you can cope with
Outside of work your friends would most likely
describe you as:
a. A fearless go-getter
b. Hilarious, brilliant, confused and fun
c. Intelligent and introverted
d. Easygoing and placid
Your ideal work colleague is most likely to
have the following qualities:
a. Agreeable and motivated
b. They love your ideas
c. Someone who can actually do their job properly
d. Hardworking and cooperate
The type of person that you most dislike
working with is most likely to be:
a. Against progress
b. Pessimistic
c. Incompetent
d. Aggressive and demanding
What you score means
To find out more about your personality and how it
affects your career read bellow. Remember no personality type is better or worse
than any other, just different. Don’t be surprised either if you have scored
highly in more than one section. Every personality is a mix of all traits. Read
the answer/answers that most apply to you.
Mostly A’s You are a kick-butt career girl.
You want to lead and control everything and you are the right person for the
job! However you often put people off coming across as too aggressive. To
achieve even greater career success try to be more patient with your less driven
colleagues. Rather than bulldozing through objections learn to build alliances
with your critics and find creative ways to get even the most unmotivated
colleagues to cooperate.
Mostly B’s If there is a crisis in your
office it is you who is most likely to save the day and everyone knows it! The
trouble you are also completely scattered, your desk is a mess, you seem
unorganised and half the time people have to wonder if you even know what day it
is? But when you perform you do amazing work, you are the untapped superstar or
your organisation. To ensure that you consitently kick career butt you need to
start focussing attention on the smaller details of your job. It will be painful
but is will be worth it when the positive feedback, promotions and payrises come
in.
Mostly C’s Everyone knows that you are the
smartest person in the officer. You consistently do great work and are most
competent person when it comes to completing the technical aspect of your job.
The only trouble is you often judge your colleagues considering them to be
incompetent. This can make you come across and prickly and unfriendly which can
negatively impact on career advancement opportunities. To overcome this try to
remember that not everyone is as smart as you and recognise that whist technical
skills are valuable so are other skills like leaderships skills and the ability
to contribute ideas. Praise others when they display these skills.
Mostly D’s You are without doubt one of the
hardest working people in your office. You are also one of the easiest people to
get on with because you are so cooperative and committed to keeping the peace.
These qualities make you a sought after asset to any organisation. The only
trouble is that because you are so nice you tend to take on more work than is
expected of you, and more work than you can cope with. The risk of doing this is
that if you don’t meet a deadline management will simply think that you are
under performing. This is unfair because it makes you look incompetent. The
solution to this is to simply stop taking on other people’s work. Soon it will
be obvious just how amazing you are.
By Lisa O’Brien Lisa runs
www.onlinecareercoaching.com and is the author of “Interview Coach” and
“Goal Setting Coach”.
Copyright CareersCoach 2006
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