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changingtheworlduk

Hi

When I written an article on how to designa CV I didn't know that a flood of people will read it and I am glad it has been helpful.

But a question which is important and will play a part in your interview and probationary period when you get the job.

The question was, "I heard companies do personality type test and is it really important to know about different personality types people have?"

Yes, today, more companies are doing personality tests. Especially the growing companies. Those who brush it away and don't read up on the Disc Personality might have a heavy time in the interview. And if its a company; they will lose strong and good workers.

I'm a business owner and mentor, and when I and my team who I invite to the interview panel, sit and ask questions, we are looking for something.

We are not just looking how you answer the question. We are also looking to see what your "Personality Type is."

We're looking if your a go getter, decision maker, brief and on the bottom line and that means, if you are...then your dominant character will shine out.

But I might also need a person to have people skills and so you need to have a 'supportive personality.' The supportive personality likes:

Friendly enviroment, to finish the job, team work and if you have this personality, then it will also reveal itself.

So whats the best way, if you know you are weaker in one personality or two, and strong in another?

You need to work on the weak ones fast. And you can't do that UNTIL you know all the four personality type, be honest, see which one you are and then work on them. Before you go on one of the companies test and they tell you what you are.

Below is link that has all information and I did it because I know it will help you. You'll understand why this is important when you go to an interview and when you are in a job and working through the probationary period. Here is the link and there's more to come..

http://www.squidoo.com/staymotivatedpeople

Randy · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

And with all due respect this does, and always will, come down to you're going to hire the one you like the best, the one who's the best at concealing some of those traits and feigning others, the one who interviews the best but, in my experience, invariably turns out to be the worst person who could've been hired.

There's a very subtle distinction at work and it's one employers will NOT recognize and it's the one thing that scares the absolute hell out of them. It's the difference between wanting honest answers as opposed to wanting honesty of character.

The entire hiring process has become a silly-assed little game and those who get hired with the most ease are those best at solving riddles, those often despicable people who, lacking any real substantive personality of their own find it easy to be clay in the hands of others, people who spend their lives treading on egg-shells and praying to God they'll not say or do anything to offend anyone else, especially someone who purports to have some degree of authority over them.

A man or woman with all the credentials and experience in the world will never win out over someone who, lacking in both, comes off as someone those conducting the interview will "like".

Yes, I'm a "direct" type in case you haven't noticed. I haven't the time, the desire, nor the patience for these throughly arbitrary and capricious "labels" heaped upon us by people who, for the most part, are educated well beyond their intelligence. Few have ever actually performed the job for which they are hiring and yet they sit there in judgment on those who do?

Before I found this website I'd wanted to believe with all my heart that the pathetic condition known as "employment" these days was a uniquely American trait. I've since learned that it's not.

True story and then I'll shut up and go away. I once interviewed a really decent young man who, for the reason given for wanting the job, was "I have a wife and family to support." I went straight to the vice-president's office (a stunning dolt of a man if ever one took up space on this planet) and told him I was going to hire him immediately. He glanced over the application and said, "No." Without having talked to the man, with nothing more than a fleeting glance at words on a piece of paper, he made up his mind. For the record, I told him he could do all the hiring after that, and he did.

Employers keep looking for that "ideal candidate". He or she exists exactly as does the "ideal employer," meaning you'll be more likely to find a unicorn. But keep on making up these silly little games and write and sell books about how to write the "perfect" resume and how to conduct yourself at an interview and all the rest and meanwhile the rest of us will keep on seeing it for what it is: A game. Knowing the pathetic ways employees are treated these days, my guess is that all this incessant chatter makes employers and human resource types feel really good about themselves.

changingtheworlduk · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

The truth is; your are a dominant personality; and who will undoubtly will think of themselves as always right. Personally; your character is suited to have your own business because;

1. You dont like to be told what to do.

2. You have only one rule, your rule alone.

3. Your personality is to the point as you have mentioned but can been seen in your writing.

You are also a High Cautious.

That means, if you was working were in a job, you're not the type to really be patiant with how the world works and no matter what you think, the world evolves around policies, it evolves around what THEY want not what you want alone.

The fact is, personality traits is not a game is a fact. You just proved this with your words here.

The idea of the article of character trait is this;

1. That we all have these personalities. Some dominant than the other.

2. To work on the weakest ones so that you succeed with yourself, your family, and even in your job.

3. What you see as a game is actually human nature, where there are some are brillaint at doing a job but really rubbish at peoples skills.

And I, would hire different types of personality for different job. For example, I won't hire someone who is dominant and not influence image because when client comes to him or her, they do not have the people skills.

You see that today in jobs. So this person needs some help, training in having people skills.

Now, you may have your own system e.g just go to someone and say he or she has the job.

Not me. My business means a lot to me and I will first make sure that I have an interview on those CVs that have the grades, qualifications.

Out of the 20 people I interview, I need someone who is good with people and if they are High Dominant and don't want to as you say, play. They wont be getting the job.

Why. Because they are stepping in my world, my business, my team and my vision. E.g; That's what a boss or direct of a company would think.

I will choose the right person because I have the right to do so. I will follow the laws of success by people like Napolean Hill to dale carenegi and many greats who say, personality traits and understanding them isnt a game but reality.

Its not that you havent time. Its your PERSONALITY that says this. Everyone has time and you have a lot of it in writing a full page here. Time is not the issue. It is your character and in how you share your opinion and how you engage the world.

You are also talking to a High Dominant and I am direct too. Thanks for your input. It was very interesting and I'll keep posting and sharing.

changingtheworlduk · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject:

Just want to add something else as I wont have time till a week due to holiday.

If you look for example at customer care service. This will need someone who is bubbly. The best for this is an 'I' Personality. I personalities are bubble, cheerful, got great imagination and LOVE meeting people. So do supportive people.

Here is where the challenge is. The 'I' personality needs to also have a dolminant personality because dominant personality are doers, action people, brief, on the ball and will get the job done.

So, when you find someone who has an amazing 'I' personality, then you found out that they need help in developing the other trait, the action trait, then you have helped this person. You have also stopped a lot of hassle in the future.

This is so with S personality, which is supportive. They love to support people but they don't like to be yelled at, they don't like sarcasm, being pushed.

Now, in your team you have a dominant personality and you also have a supportive personality. There is going to be big friction. Friction causes lack of productivity because the people now can feel the enviroment and so do both of them.

Then the staff don't like working in that enviroment and suddenly; you lost a brillaint worker. Sick leave happens often and then they dont want to work in that job again.

Understaning peoples personality is a must for a growing company but is so for everyone.

A lot of parents are misunderstanding their own children thinking their children are stubbon or they not good at speaking. Instead of realising the child is a reserved personality and just needs help to speak in his or her language.

Hence; pesonality type is a Language. To not learn it is to really be heading in trouble in future, whether in a job, when you are faced with people aho are different personalities, in business with clients who might want detailed info while the other wants brief info.

Each one must be spoken to using their language. If not, you find they are bored with you, or you speak too much, or your too on their face and direct, and even you lose friendship or a good employee.

Its not a game. Its a language to learn so we appreciate people and help them on their way to work in a job they love or be part of a team that can work together smoothly.

When a survey was done with staffs of many companies, the question was asked.

"It was, what do you value the most?"

The answer, "that the person is a team player, they are liked and they can work together as a team."

No company is built by one person and one chooses employees as a vision to be part of a team. The team makes the business grow because the company designed a system and enviroment they can work within without personality clashes.

Thats my final take on this and its common sense really but its ok to not agree with what I say. Thats what makes this life interested and great.

Randy · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:52 am Post subject:

"changingtheworlduk"

...no matter what you think, the world evolves around policies, it evolves around what THEY want not what you want alone.

Man, ain't that the truth! It's the truth of an old 70's office poster which read "Reason? Hell, there's no reason. It's just company policy."

For reasons I will never know, humankind, at some point in my lifetime, decided that running a business included these inane "policies" when the simple truth is that it is still no more complicated than "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work".

The fact is, personality traits is not a game is a fact. You just proved this with your words here.

Oh, absolutely correct. It is the fact of the matter, no argument from me. That doesn't change the reality, however, that it's still reduced to a silly game of personality clashes and semantics. E.G.: That "they" to whom you refer call people like me a "human resource," then proceed to treat me that way, placing no more importance upon me than an ink pen or computer monitor. In return, however, "they" expect me to give them my "humanity," to be "nice" and a "team player".

3. What you see as a game is actually human nature, where there are some are brillaint at doing a job but really rubbish at peoples skills.

Oh yes indeed and those inevitably become managers and supervisors.

I will choose the right person because I have the right to do so. I will follow the laws of success by people like Napolean Hill to dale carenegi and many greats who say, personality traits and understanding them isnt a game but reality.

Then I'm left to wonder why it is that turnover rates remain so unbelievably high. Face it: One of the major complaints of most businesses is the inability to retain "good" employees. And most are--and I think you would agree--following the same basic hiring guidelines and procedures as you've discussed. So what's the problem?

If you (generically for employers, in general) are "weeding out" the "undesirables" first with resumes and applications, then again through interviews by focusing on these "personality traits," how is it, again, that turnover rates are so high?

It's a fair question, don't you agree?

The problem is that the "they's" who've created this game, these rules, policies, and procedures, don't like the answer. And because "they" created this mess and continue to perpetuate in spite of the fact that none of this is working (if, of course, the real purpose is indeed to find and hire only those "ideal candidates"), we're all stuck playing by these "rules". And it's in that sense that I call it all a "game," not because I'm denying the reality of it.

Its not that you havent time. Its your PERSONALITY that says this.

Okay. Saying I "haven't the time" might be more accurately qualified as "I have neither the desire nor the patience" for the thing. But I AM my "personality" and I'll go to hell and die before I let the "they's" of the world bend and shape me, i.e., force to me to conform, compromise, and capitulate for no more noble of a reason than to get paid for making, packaging, and delivering a bunch of widgets.

All your arguments in defense of this new status quo simply reaffirms what over fifty employers have taught me: It's not competency and efficiency on the job that employers want. They want--for lack of a better way to say it--my very soul. They want "me" to become a "somebody else" for no other reason than that's what "they" want.

You've said as much yourself. "They" want a "dominant" to be "submissive" when it's what "they" want, and vice versa, and by the time you put the different "types" people into a matrix, you've come up with a Greek tragedy of epic proportions.

You are also talking to a High Dominant and I am direct too.

Yes, but you have a trait I obviously lack. You find it easy to accept this madness than do I. Part of me envies you for that. Another part holds you in utter contempt.

Nothing but the best to you, to both of us, and mostly to all the regular old "everyday" folks caught up in this mess. From where I'm sitting, we're back to "We have met the enemy. And he is us."

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