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Personal Profile Evaluations

By Jim Symcox on May 11, 2007 in Uncategorized

Well that was fun. I’ve just taken a personality profile evaluation.

I took the Personal Orientation Profile (applied by The Self Management Group).

The results seem to be pretty interesting and the summary says:

“People would see you as being an achieving person, one who can be quite hard driving, eager, active and occasionally impatient. Challenge for you can involve doing some things simply because they are demanding, and many things because they have a concrete financial reward, but you will occasionally accept a challenge because it has a ‘people-oriented’ element to it. Financial rewards are important to you but sometimes you direct your energies towards things which have no payoff for you but which have this ‘people- oriented’ focus. You evaluate how well you are doing in life and in your career by what you earn, by how you feel about yourself and by the good you have done for others.”

So far so interesting…

Then it goes onto my people orientation:

“You would be described as extremely sociable, entertaining, cheerful, genial and outgoing. In addition to being a fluent talker, you would be comfortable with new people, value social interaction and make new friends easily. Generally, you would be a good company representative and have the ability to communicate with a wide variety of people in a number of different functions. Being extremely sociable could make you somewhat sensitive to rejection.”

And just in case you wondered why I never bothered with my Chemistry degree the results summary ends with this interesting observation:

“You would be described as somewhat logical, reflective, analytical, factual and practical. Intellectual challenges, when offered just as challenges without any obvious practical utility, would not appeal to you as strongly as would other kinds of challenge and opportunity. Ideas and concepts which were of solid practical use would be of interest to you.”

The point I’ve highlighted in red is just so true. I hate to do stuff that has no impact. That’s probably why I can’t usually be bothered with crosswords either.

So overall do I think the results are fair?

I’d like to think so. Certainly quite a few of the points made have been made to me personally over the years. And it’s true that I don’t like rejection – but I handle it!

I’ve posted about personality assessments before, check the link to see what sort of person you are too!

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