{"id":2536,"date":"2018-08-09T10:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T10:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/?page_id=2536"},"modified":"2019-01-22T13:56:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:56:56","slug":"personality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/personality\/","title":{"rendered":"Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wilde.png\" alt=\"Wilde\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"384\" width=\"1024\" title=\"Wilde\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/2-who-you-are\/\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/skills\/\">Skills<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/playing-to-your-strengths\/\">Playing to your strengths<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/using-your-subject\/\">Using your subject<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/interests-and-passions\/\">Interests and passions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Personality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/identity\/\">Identity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/values\/\">Values<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/motivations\/\">Motivations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/personal-circumstances-and-needs\/\">Personal circumstances and needs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/a-vision-of-your-future\/\">A vision of the future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/worklife-balance-living-in-harmony\/\">Finding the balance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/environment\/\">Environment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/summary\/\">Summary<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Personality<\/h1>\n<p>When it comes to really understanding yourself, having an insight into your \u2018personality\u2019 is essential.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; and appreciate how or why others are different.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 Understanding your personality can also help you explore careers, study ideas or work environments in which you are more likely to feel comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; 3 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/personality.png\" alt=\"personality\" usemap=\"#personality\" width=\"700\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<map id=\"personality\" name=\"personality\">\n<area title=\"energy\" alt=\"energy\" coords=\"3,2,330,123\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/interactive\/aorb\/environment\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"attention\" alt=\"attention\" coords=\"366,4,678,121\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/interactive\/aorb\/attention\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"decisions\" alt=\"decisions\" coords=\"18,138,322,233\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/interactive\/aorb\/makedecision\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"life\" alt=\"life\" coords=\"372,140,672,236\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/interactive\/aorb\/managelife\" target=\"_blank\" \/> <\/map>\n<p>This approach to understanding personality does not imply your behaviour is fixed.\u00a0Obviously you can adapt to different situations and environments.\u00a0Personality 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 &#8216;more yourself\u2019 and where you don\u2019t have to use extra energy to try to fit in or fulfill your role.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/incorporating-interests\/\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/charcoal_nofill-Copy-150x150.png\" alt=\"charcoal_nofill-Copy\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"charcoal_nofill-Copy\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/2-who-you-are\/\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jigsaw1.png\" alt=\"jigsaw1\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"152\" width=\"200\" title=\"jigsaw1\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/identity\/\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/charcoal_nofill-150x150.png\" alt=\"charcoal_nofill\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"charcoal_nofill\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Skills Playing to your strengths Using your subject Interests and passions Personality Identity Values Motivations Personal circumstances and needs A vision of the future Finding the balance Environment Summary Personality When it comes to really understanding yourself, having an insight into your \u2018personality\u2019 is essential. &nbsp; Your personality can influence how you behave, make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2536\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}