Personality Styles and choice of major and vocation

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Personality Styles and Choice of Major and Vocation

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Introduction

Personality is one of those popular words that everybody thinks they understand but for which few people can eagerly provide a definition The definition provided here is limited to the traits essential to be successful in business professional services . Accordingly , it focuses on the essential levels of technical knowledge , intelligence , and interpersonal traits that lead individuals to marketing /sales success in professional service firms

Technical

knowledge means obtaining the education , training and /or certification and licensing to function as a professional in the working world . Typically , this means a college degree with explicit formal training in a range of certain courses or technical subjects . It often entails the completion of some professional apprenticeship leading to a professional designation , for example MBA , CA , and so on (Nemati , H 2004 . It is also possible to obtain other types of official recognition in lesser-known professional fields , such as securities , insurance employee benefits , financial planning , and real estate , to name a few However , the research reported here centres on the former type of "professional " person rather than the latter (Ngai , E ,W ,T , 2003

Intelligence and Choice of a Career

Intelligence is a much misunderstood word . True , in some sense it may not be sufficiently defined . Some culture groups usually perform differently than others on standard measures of it . However , it is still a practical concept and can be employed in part to define the professional person . Intelligence is defined here as reasoning and problem-solving ability . Often the eventual measure of a professional service firm 's value to a client is its capability to solve problems in ambiguous areas . This requires intellectual ability in three areas arithmetic , verbal , and conceptual reasoning . People with better reasoning abilities in these areas are capable to analyze , understand and define issues (and solutions ) that people with lesser intellectual capability are not able to comprehend . So intellectual ability is a key feature in identifying and developing more capable professional personnel

Thus , the choice of a career , which is decreasingly a once-and forever decision , surpasses many other key life events in potential impact on a person 's life . Career choice can radically influence an individual 's social status , income , friends , and even core identity (Moore , G ,C , and Benbasat , I . 1991 . That people who are unhappy in their work are also often generally despondent with their lives suggests the importance of these issues to overall psychological well-being . The often subtly disguised physical and mental health issues linked with career concerns have been vastly underestimated

The selection of a major by college students has been one of the decisive issues receiving the interest of educators , psychologist counselors , and college administrators . The number of students selecting a major is significant because of academic planning needs and has major inference for public policies concerning resource portion in higher education (Leppel et al , 2001 ,

.374 . Several studies have been conducted...