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Knowing who you are: your ‘work personality’ and your ‘best fit’

It is not a given, but most people likely will agree that career satisfaction has a lot to do with the degree to which innate characteristics and strengths match the work we do. Therefore, we invite you now – regardless whether you are still in school or have years of work behind you – to consider those innate characteristics through questions like these:

image Are you drawn to the atmosphere of a serene, luxuriously appointed law or accounting firm or to a beehive-busy college information commons?

 Does the public service or a technology startup appeal to you?

 Is working with people ...

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