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Big Five Personality Types Corum-Orion S Jensen MGT/312 November 6, 2017 Kristen Schretzenmayer

2 Big Five Personality Types For this week we were tasked with completing a self-assessment entitled “What is my big five personality profile”. The assessment asked you ten questions requiring yourself to assess the truthfulness of each statement on a grading scale. Based on the responses you provide and evaluation of your answers to these questions the assessment then produces your scores for the five different personality types. The assessment in and of itself was very interesting to participate in and gave me some good insight into my own personality based on my answers Results of the Assessment The results I had received based on my input are as follows. I had received an extraversion score of seven, indicating a moderate level of extraversions. I had a score of 3 in the way of agreeableness, indicating a low level of agreeableness in my personality. My conscientiousness and emotional stability scores both registered at an eight, which means a moderately high level of conscientiousness and emotional stability. Finally, my score for my openness to experience ranked in at a seven, indicating a moderate level of openness to experience. Overall, I would say that I do agree with most of the results of my assessment. However, there are a few different things I would like to elaborate on based on my scoring of each personality trait. Extraversion Of all of my results, the score I had received for my level of extraversion is most likely the most accurate. No matter what social situation I find myself in I have a very easy time being social-able, charismatic, and easy to fit in. when it comes to job performance, being an extravert has been more than beneficial for me. I have worked in customer service, management, and sales. Being able to carry a conversation with just about anyone from any back ground makes it

3 easy to be comfortable in customer service. In management, a high level of extraversion in my personality types allows me to have needed conversations and build the necessary rapport with my employees so that my management style doesn’t need to be done in a totalitarian way. Agreeableness In terms of agreeableness, the assessment is fairly accurate. I would have ranked myself a point or two higher. My issue with this scoring has a little bit of a duality to it. On one hand, I can acknowledge that my underlying personality dictates that I’m not the most agreeable person. In my personal life, I find myself preferring recreational debate to casual conversation. I am quick to disagree with someone who’s opinion I do not agree on, or with someone that I do not enjoy their company. On the other hand, it is easy for me to essentially turn off these kinds of responses in the workplace as needed. It is very apparent that being unable to take criticism can significantly hinder my job performance. If one of my superiors has to sit me down and go over my performance and gives me pointers and my response is to be belligerent and unopen to change then not only will my job performance suffer, but I may find myself out of a job. My lack of agreeableness would absolutely be one of my weaker points. Conscientiousness The score I had received for conscientiousness was one of my higher scoring personality traits. Receiving a score of eight indicated that I have a moderately high level of conscientiousness to my underlying personality. I would agree with this result. My need to be detail oriented and methodical in my work had consistently been a strength for me. When I am undertaking a new position or a new responsibility in my job, I make sure that I am to understand the ins and outs as best I can. I do this even to the point where I will attempt to commit all of the

4 procedures and policies to memory so that my intent to be conscientious in the future is much more efficient and less of a drawn-out process.

Emotional Stability Just like my score for my conscientiousness, I had received an eight for my score in the way of emotional stability. I would agree with this score at a minimum. I may even score myself a point higher. I do not find myself typically succumbing to the emotional pressure of any given scenario. Especially in the workplace, I have an uncanny ability to compartmentalize any kind of outside emotional stress I may be going through. This has been a major asset for me in my personal life. Especially working in management, sales, and customer service. When you are constantly client facing, it is important that you do not crack under pressure and avoid having anything but a positive disposition. Openness to Experience I was a little surprised by receiving such a high score in this personality trait. I have no issue with getting out of my comfort zone. I do enjoy doing new things In an attempt to amass more and more life experience. My issue with score is that I am not exactly proactive in finding new experiences. I even go to some fairly good lengths to avoid them at times. Because of this, I have somewhat of a mixed reaction to receiving a score of seven, indicating a moderate level of being open to experience in my personality.

Conclusion

5 Overall, I am mostly in agreement with the results of my assessment. The scores I had received for extraversion, conscientiousness and emotional stability were fairly spot on, or at least hit a minimum score if I were to be ranking the scores myself. The scores I had received or agreeableness and openness to experience was fairly accurate despite me having a few small issues with the scores. As I had mentioned before, I think my extraversion, conscientiousness, and emotional responsibility are my biggest strength. While my low levels of agreeableness, and my inherent lack of desire of new experiences could be considered to be my biggest weakness of all of my personality traits. I do not think that my so-called weaknesses in my personality are truly weaknesses, but when it comes to how these things may affect my job performance I can in full honesty acknowledge how they may be a hinderance. By the same token, my strengths in those three personality traits, I know to have been advantageous in my career....