How your personality impacts your career success (and what you can do about it)

"The simplest and most reliable way to understand someone's personality is to look at their scores (position) along five universal traits, namely emotional stability (how calm, composed, and non-anxious you are), extraversion (how sociable, assertive, and energetic you are), agreeableness (how kind, polite, and friendly you are), openness to experience (how curious, intellectual, and open-minded you are), and conscientiousness (how driven, organized, and self-controlled you are)."

"There are multiple ways to assess these personality traits, ranging from peer-ratings (most people would agree on their views of a specific person, since we all have consistent reputations and others are able to decode them), AI-scraping of digital footprints (what we say and do online, and how we say and do it compared to others), and science-based personality assessment (you can take a free, visual two-minute version here)."

Personality strongly predicts career success and manifests as habitual behaviors and tendencies that differ between individuals. Five universal traits—emotional stability, extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness—capture the core dimensions of personality and summarize most other character labels. Personality traits can be assessed via peer-ratings, AI analysis of digital footprints, and validated scientific inventories. Well-designed tests translate self-presentation into actionable predictions of workplace behavior and performance despite concerns about self-report bias. Over a century of research provides robust evidence linking these trait dimensions to real-life and occupational outcomes.

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