If you're wondering why it's so difficult for you to hold down a job, you might consider taking a personality assessment.
Science suggests there's one personality type that's more likely to be unemployed than others.
A new report from Truity Psychometrics, a provider of online personality and career assessments, found that, overall, being a "Perceiver" significantly predicts your tendency to be jobless.
ISFPs (people with a
preference for Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving) were the
most likely of all 16 personality types to report being unemployed. And
INFPs, INTPs, ENTPs, and ESFPs were all more likely than average to
report that they were out of a job, according to the report.
(Skye Gould/Business Insider)
Molly Owens, CEO of Truity and developer of the TypeFinder® personality type assessment, isn't too surprised by this finding.
She tells Business Insider the result replicates previous studies of the Big Five personality model
that have repeatedly found that people with high levels of a trait
called "conscientiousness" — or a person's tendency to be goal-oriented
and persistent — tend to earn more and be more successful in their
careers.
She says Judgers are often highly conscientious while
Perceivers tend to have lower levels of conscientiousness, so it's
expected that Judgers would experience more career achievement.
"Perceivers tend to be freewheeling, spontaneous types who
dislike schedules and structure," Owens says. "At the extreme, and if
they haven't developed good organizational skills, Perceivers can have
trouble meeting deadlines and keeping up with demanding jobs. So they
may actually be more likely to lose their jobs in the first place, if
they're not meeting expectations."
Owens says Perceivers might
also be more likely to spend more time unemployed once they're out of
work than Judgers. "Unlike Judgers, who dislike unpredictable
circumstances, Perceivers are more likely to take the unexpected loss of
a job in stride, considering it a good excuse for a little time off.
Undoubtedly, it was a Perceiver who coined the term 'funemployment.'"
"Judgers, on the
other hand, are usually organized, goal-directed folks who prefer a
predictable routine. They are valued in the workplace because of their
attention to schedules and deadlines, so they may be less likely to lose
their jobs in the first place."
On the flip side of
this, Owens says Judgers are far less likely to take to being unemployed
since they thrive on structure and want to feel that they are
constantly moving forward.
"So they're more motivated to get back to work, and probably more organized about the process of finding a new job," she says.
Copyright BUSINESS INSIDER.
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