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What we’ve been looking at in the study is whether there are differences between personalities reliably between different occupations, and maybe between different employers as well.
That’s why the research we’ve been focusing on most recently is within distinct employers to see whether we get quite different effects in different places.
And we get, those effects are coming through. Certainly we’re getting the impression that people are drawn towards different occupations, they feel attracted to them dependent on their personality.
Whether they enjoy their job or not, again, can be dependent on the match between their personality and the job they’re doing.
And then, of course, to get into an occupation you need to be recruited, and employers are looking to recruit people with particular personality types for particular jobs.
There’s all sorts of ways in which those two overlap.
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I believe that when you do get into an occupation it also has an affect on you, on your personnality.
So wheather your reason for getting into a specific career was because it fit your personality, or because this specific career makes a lot of money, perhaps your parents envisioned this path for you, or because it was available option when there was nothing else to take, once in that career in order to be successful in it, you adjast and shape yourself.
So I believe that your personality not only affects the job you search for and enjoy, the job can also influence your personality.