A necessary ingredient for career success is self-awareness and understanding. Each of us has strengths and development areas both in skills and in behavior. In this assignment you will conduct academic research to develop insights on how personality, behavior and career success are connected. You will then reflect on your personality type to identify and analyze the characteristics that will help you succeed according to your research, as well as the characteristics that may hold you back. For this assignment you will:
Perform a Big-Five and Myers-Briggs personality tests as well as any relevant Self-Assessment in Connect.
Read the article: "Could Your Personality Derail Your Career?, Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas. Harvard Business Review, September-October 2017. Identify and analyze your ‘dark side personality traits’.
Solicit (truthful!) input from friends & family on their perceptions of your personality. Analyze the similarities and differences between your perceptions and those you have interviewed.
Analysis of the interrelationship between your self-analysis and the academic research on workplace/career success
