Saturday, March 8, 2025

Does Personality Impact Career Selection and Success? (Career Development)

Personality has a lot to do with the type of career you choose and the likelihood of success within a chosen field. Most of us have heard about IQ and EQ but many haven't taken the time to think about our own personality traits in achieving career success. The Big 5 Personality traits are used to assess personality and includes neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. You can learn more about the Big 5 Personality Traits.

Personality can impact career selection. If you are going to pick a career field think about your temperament and personality. Delve deeper beyond what is popular today and assess strong employment trends, job fit to you (skills, interest), and potential long-term growth opportunities. One can reflect on their unique attributes and look at reports on employment trends 5, 10, and 15 years into the future. Too many young people enter college and just pick a random field without critical examination and investigation that leads to a strong market-person match.

Personality Traits and Career Role Enactment: Career Role Preferences as a Mediator

Personality can impact career success through consistency and persistence of performance. Certain traits will help some explore information, opportunities, reach out to obtain goals and influence groups. The soft side of grooming/mentoring/teaching includes enhancing the whole person/student through understanding one's traits, knowing their skills, practicing those skills and applying them. Turning quality work in on time, solving problems, interacting, and researching ideas helps create a base that tests such skills. You can learn by doing.

According to the study conscientiousness and extraversion have some positive influence on career outcomes. Personality Traits and Types in Relation to Career Success: An Empirical Comparison Using the Big Five

One can take from this that 1.) personality impacts career choice and 2.) it can impact career success. Choose wisely.

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