Have you ever worn a shoe that doesn’t fit just right? Sometimes, when you first try it on, it appears to fit just fine. As more time goes on though, you notice that it is pinching here and there, creating calluses as you walk, and just doesn’t feel right. In this particular situation, would you try to correct your foot so that it fit the shoe, or would you go searching for a new shoe that didn’t pinch so much and better matched your stride?
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This pinch—when you feel at odds with reality—can affect many aspects of your life. From relationships to career choices, it can be easy to identify when the “shoe” doesn’t fit. The question is: What do you do about it? More often than not, it is not you that needs to change, but rather your situation. It might simply be time for a new shoe.
Finding the right shoe
A study done in May 2013 by Bank of Montreal revealed that personality traits outranked credentials and education for many employers who were looking to hire. Thirty percent of respondents ranked personality as the most important factor—even above skill and work experience. More and more employers are focusing on personality because skills can be taught; personality is harder to change.
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Great article!
Thanks Michelle for this great article on personality. As a psychology graduate, I have always been interested in the human condition and since getting my master's degree in the field, I have no desire to continue on the Doctorate route and be a psychologist. I have tried several jobs all to no avail but the education/training area has been a talent I have discovered along the way in an area I have no desire to be in anymore and that was teaching children. I prefer to entertain them than teach them UNLESS it is educational. I have been lost for almost my life and I am 39 but with the hardships in my life I am coming into my own and want to make my mark and leave a legacy for my two children. I am a single mother and it has been a struggle to find work and have the things I want to have along with my children. I believe I was meant to help abused teens, single adult women, and single moms. I love diversity and working with foreigners and learning their language but what I want to say because I love to talk and rattle on and on is that I believe I am destined to start my own business not as a psychologist but in the field of communications like public relations, entrepreneurship, marketing, teaching/training, research, mediation, and ANYTHING dealing with Communications. I should have sense this but I was around the wrong people and ill advised in college or got involved and family being a hinderance or not supportive, along with low self-esteem and low self-worth brought about by abuse (parental and domestic). Getting a JOB is not good enough for me, I need meaning, darnit!!! I have been a christian believer for a long time and it was in doing so I found what I was meant to be doing because helping people tell their stories as well as mine and forming a network of kindred spirits is what life is about for me. I love people who share what I believe. What are your suggestions on moving forward. I would love to start an entrepreneurship program for teens and single moms and empower them to reach their potential.
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