April 2015
Beginner
480 pages
107h 32m
English
“What if you’re not happy in your job? Is it possible that you’re in the wrong career entirely?”52 As you do your job day by day, you may realize that your tasks don’t mesh well with your personality or talents. Wouldn’t it seem to make more sense to strive for a match between your personality and your chosen job or career path?
Obviously, individual personalities differ. So, too, do jobs. How do we match the two? The best-documented personality–job fit theory was developed by psychologist John Holland.53 His theory states that an employee’s satisfaction with his or her job, as well as his or her likelihood of leaving that job, depends on the degree to which ...