your reflections/insights on your personal traits test ... (at least 2000 words)
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As I entered our room in technopreneurship, I was surprised and puzzled when I saw my classmates with their yellow papers and pens. I hurriedly asked them what’s going to happen, and they just simply said that we are going to have our prelim exam. I am not ready to take the exam for I had not yet reviewed our past lessons in technopreneurship.
Our facilitator came and instructed us to get a 1 whole sheet of paper and to answer the exam for just 30 minutes! I was shocked after his declaration of the exams, I wasn’t ready!. For God’s sake!. After our facilitator presented the questions with the aid of the projector, as I carefully read the statements, my feeling of helplessness were gone, for the questions were easy and it is up to you to choose your preferences. The title of the test was Personality Trait Test. The test is self-explanatory; this kind of test was intended to show a person’s approach in different scenarios.
After answering all the 32 questions, we are tasked to check our own paper. There was a specific point per letter. By the way, there were only two choices; it’s either an A or B. You have to pick one in every number. The statements were somehow related to every one of us. Wherein, it seems to be both right. You have to choose between the two statements. After checking the answers, I got a score of 40. And that score falls in the Average Technopreneur, meaning, I have the potential in the field of technopreneurship.
Here is an excerpt taken form a standard personality test:
• You do your best to complete a task on time
YES/ NO
• You are strongly touched by the stories about people's troubles
YES /NO
• You are more interested in a general idea than in the details of its realization
YES /NO
• Strict observance of the established rules is likely to prevent a good outcome
YES/ NO
• Often you prefer to read a book than go to a party
YES/ NO
• You tend to rely on your experience rather than
on theoretical alternatives
YES/ NO
As you can see, there are only two choices in every statement. All you have to do is to choose the best answer that suits you. You may wonder the accuracy and validity of such test. But throughout time, personality tests have grown more and more refined, increasing the accuracy and validity of their results. A personality test is a great tool for any employer who wishes to get to know a potential employee better, before hiring them. And this test are interpreted by a specialized psychologist.
The personality test results can bring a lot of valuable information regarding the candidate. Fitting the candidate into a certain pattern or category is done by comparison, evaluating personal characteristics and comparing them against standardized results.
Did you happen to ask yourself, what are personality traits?
As I googled for the meaning of personality traits, I found out that:
Personality traits are intrinsic differences that remain stable throughout most of our life. They are the constant aspects of our individuality. And traits are distinguishing qualities or characteristics of a person. Traits are a readiness to think or act in a similar fashion in response to a variety of different stimuli or situations.
Moreover, personality traits can be interpreted as both positive and negative traits. For instance, being critical is one of your personal traits. This could be an edge if you are an editor of a magazine or any type of publishing company, or your job is a meat inspector. It would be a negative if you are a supervisor trying to gain rapport with an employee. In addition, knowing one’s personality traits will be a great help to them.
Thus, providing them the edge and the upperhand in many aspects in life, for example, if a person knows beforehand his traits, before he engages to life’s challenges, he can use it to turn the stacks away from him. He can manage to be more productive in his on way.
To sum it all, every person around us has their own personal traits. We use our traits consciously and subconsciously when it comes to problem solving and decision making. We tend to grab onto our traits just to accomplish something in our lives. And when it comes to technopreneurship, our good traits, matter most.
As I went over the internet, I found out that Allport and Odbert (1936, cited in Funder, 2001) found 17,953 words to describe the way people are psychologically different from each other for example: shy, trustworthy, laconic, phlegmatic, kind, conscientious, and anxious just to name a few in out of a thousand personality traits. All these words describe personality traits.
Trait approach tries to synthesize and formalize these traits in order to explain and predict human behaviour.
Underlying questions driving the trait approaches to personality include:
• What traits are basic/essential to our personality?
• How many traits are there?
• How do we find out our traits?
As we go over with our everyday lives, we tend to understand much better our personality traits. And if not, we can always find help. Help not only encourages us to know ourselves better but also to enhance our skills and pinpoint our good traits that will help to uplift our lives, and be a good and wise technopreneur someday.
However the whole issue of whether a trait exists in all people to a greater or lesser degree is complicated by different views of the trait perspective.
There are two different views as to whether all traits exist in all people, first is idiographic: people have unique personality structures; thus some traits are more important in understanding the structure of some people than others. The Idiographic view emphasizes that each person has a unique psychological structure and that some traits are possessed by only one person; and that there are times when it is impossible to compare one person with others. This viewpoint also emphasizes that traits may differ in importance from person to person (cardinal, central and secondary traits). It tends to use case studies, bibliographical information, diaries etc for information gathering.
Next is nomothetic: people's unique personalities can be understood as them having relatively greater or lesser amounts of traits that are consistently across people. The Nomothetic view, on the other hand, emphasizes comparability among individuals but sees people as unique in their combination of traits. This viewpoint sees traits as having the same psychological meaning in everyone. The belief is that people differ only in the amount of each trait. It is this which constitutes their uniqueness. This approach tends to use self-report personality questions, factor analysis etc. People differ in their positions along a continuum in the same set of traits.
Most contemporary psychologists tend towards a nomothetic approach (and the trait approach is often viewed solely as a nomothetic approach these days), but they are aware of how a trait may be slightly different from person to person in the way that it is expressed.
In order for us student to find a career path that we will find both challenging and satisfying, we must first learn about ourself. The following questions are just a hint for us inorder to help us pinpoint our personality traits.
Here it goes:
* What do you like to do?
* What skills do you have?
* Which skills do you like to use?
* What kind of work setting fits best with your personality type?
* What is your personality type??
There are many ways to assess and to know ones personality traits. A good example to this is in the internet. One can surf to the internet to find one. However, if you would like a more in-depth self-understanding, it is recommended that you meet with a certain people who can provide you with “standardized assessments”. This comprises different tests that will help you to know yourself better, especially in finding and knowing your good personality traits that are relevant to you. With the guidance of this people, you can develop a profile of yourself, including your personality traits, good and bad.
The most common places to find this people are: College and University Career Centers, Community Agencies, Private Career Counselors and Instructors/facilitators.I’m pretty sure that this people can really help someone to find their good personality traits as well as the bad ones.
Are you interested in what you are doing in your life now? Or are you just enjoying your life to the extent that you forget to build and mold your future?.
Just because we are interested in something does not mean that we automatically are good at it. It's a known fact that we are most likely to excel at what we like to do. Think of things you have done in the past where you succeeded, take for example, you volunteered at the local high school, you wrote a poem that was published or you designed a computer program.
How does it feel to accomplish such task? Did it uplifted your morale and boosted your self-esteem? I bet yes.
Knowing our personal traits test result does not imply or show us how good and successful we will be as a technopreneur. There are more essential things that could affect your being as a technopreneur than taking the Personality Traits Tests. We need the skills as well as values inorder for us to succeed and blossom.
Think of anything that you do better than average. These are the skills you want inorder for you to have a stepping stone in technopreneurship.
Some examples might be: organizing and developing project or good writing skills and ability to remember details accurately
To be a technopreneur someday, we need the skills inorder for us to become successful. These skills are grouped into 2 different groups, the transferable skills and the nontransferable skills. Transferable skills are those skills that can be used in one job or another. Nontransferable skills are generally specific to a certain job or type of work. Let’s go deeper to this types of skills, shall we?
First on the list is the transferable skills, this skill is broken up into two categories worker skills and functional skills. These skills can be transferred from one job to another.
Look at everything you do in your life. Even skills developed in the home (budgeting) or hobbies (attention to details, organizing) can be “transferred" into a work setting.
1) Good worker skills allows you to be flexible to different jobs.
Example: Accepting responsibilities, Organized, Meeting deadlines
2) Functional skills are general skills useful in a variety of jobs.
Example: Analyzing data, Managing people, Operating machinery
All jobs utilize data, people and things, but most jobs emphasize one category over others. For example, computer system analysts work with data, counselors work with people and auto mechanics work with cars.
Next is the nontransferable skills, a good example to this kind of skill is the technical skill, it may or may not be used in other settings. Technical skills apply to a specific job or occupation. Take for example: Drawing is for cartoonist, Teeth cleaning is to dental hygienist and Sewing is to tailor.
Aside from acquiring skills, we need also values. Identifying your values is one of the most important factors in considering your career choices. Vital questions that need to be explored include: Do my values match my interest?, Do my values match the work involved in a particular career?
Often times people are disappointed when they find their chosen career does not match with their values. For instance, the career may involve long hours (no family time) or does not pay a large salary (no out of town vacations).
There two kinds of values explored here: Work Values and Personal Values. Work values deals with factors that you consider important to you on the job.
Often, you may wonder what your personality type exactly is. Or, you may also wonder what the personality type of your co-workers, friends, or family is. The easiest way to determine this is to take a personality trait test. A personality trait test is a test that is designed to tell you exactly what type of a person you are, and often tells you what the advantages and disadvantages of your personality is. In addition, a personality trait test will also tell you personality types to avoid, which is useful for an emerging technopreneur.
Regardless of which personality trait test you decide to take, sharing the results (and challenging your friends and family to do the same) is half of the fun. Most of these tests can be quickly emailed (with a link to the test website), posted in a blog, or posted on your personal website. It is very important for everyone to know what type of person they are, and taking personality tests help you to understand yourself.
References:
http://www.personality-and-aptitude-career-tests.com/personality-trait-test.html
http://www.csun.edu/~sp20558/dis/discover.html
http://wilderdom.com/personality/L6-2PersonalityTraits.html
http://www.gotestgo.com/personality_test.html
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