Personality

When it comes to really understanding yourself, having an insight into your ‘personality’ is essential.

Your personality can influence how you behave, make decisions, respond to situations and relate to others. Knowing about different facets of personality can help you to understand yourself better - and appreciate how or why others are different.

It can also help you understand how or when you may need to change your approach to be more successful or to relate to other people better.  Understanding your personality can also help you explore careers, study ideas or work environments in which you are more likely to feel comfortable.

Complete these interactive exercises, based on the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI), a well-respected approach to understanding yourself and others better. Each exercise should take you 2 - 3 minutes.

This approach to understanding personality does not imply your behaviour is fixed. Obviously you can adapt to different situations and environments. Personality cannot therefore dictate what job you can do, but it might suggest there are approaches to doing the job or environments that may suit you more, where you may be 'more yourself’ and where you don’t have to use extra energy to try to fit in or fulfill your role.