How To Describe Your Personality With These Descriptive Words & Phrases

Describing Your Personality in an Interview

The answer to being asked to describe your personality should always be related to the job, so leave out words like "sexy" or "daring" or even "loving". Remember, although the employer is asking personal questions about you, they are still all related to the need to answer the interview question: "what can you bring to the company?" even if they didn't actually put that question into words.

So, I recommend that you give adjectives like reliable, loyal, adaptable and resourceful amongst others (see the list of personality describing adjectives below), but make sure you back these with supporting examples. The most important thing is to make sure you boil it all down to presenting the answer in such a way that it matches the things the employer is looking for.

Here are some short phrases you can use as a starting point to describe your personality - because at some point you will have to. You could try out two or three of these self-describing phrases together and make them sound personal and about you.

• I am highly motivated and enthusiastic and have a keen desire to continually update my knowledge and skills

• I am a loyal employee who is hard working, dependable and trustworthy because I understand it is a two way relationship.

• I have the ability to work individually and as part of the larger organization's team

• I have a strong sense of commitment; I am able to begin a course of action and work through it until it's finished

• I have a very strong drive and motivation to continually develop my professional skills

• I have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

• I have the ability to relate to all types of other people I work with

• I have the ability to be flexible and adaptable in order to meet changing conditions or situations

• I am outgoing, enthusiastic and a determined individual, eager to make progress.

• I am professional, confident, efficient and goal orientated with the proven ability to use my own initiative or work as part of a team.

• I have the ability to learn quickly and my common sense helps me respond to the needs of new situations.

• I see myself as being competent and versatile with good organisational skills.

• I possess honesty and integrity; I have high professional standards and I aim to be fair and truthful in everything I do.

• I am reliable and able to be trusted to do what I have been asked to do, or what I have promised to do.

• I take pride in my personal presentation and take into consideration suitable clothing and company dress codes

• I have common sense and the ability to make decisions based on knowledge and good judgement

• I have a sense of humour and I am able to join with others and enjoy funny situations

• I maintain a balanced attitude to work and home life giving appropriate consideration to things that matter at home and at work

• I am able to deal with pressure and organise my time well, so that work and job demands get proper attention

• I am motivated and positive about the work I do by setting myself goals and working toward them.

Personality Self-Assessment

Interviewers seem to love to ask you questions that get to your perception of yourself. These may come in several forms - "Describe your personality"; "How would you describe yourself"; "What are the qualities you possess that make you the best candidate for this job"; "What do you bring to this company that will make this company stronger?" and many variations on this are commonly asked.

The whole idea of asking you to describe your personality is to try to understand whether you will fit in and the way you talk about yourself is one of the best ways to learn a lot about you quickly.

Understanding Your Personality

As in all other areas of your life, your personality plays a decisive role in the things you enjoy or don’t enjoy. It plays a role in why you are more successful in a particular area with less effort and why some areas might be more difficult for you and require more effort.

Click on the descriptive boxes on the side of this screen to see how they describe your personality type. Identifying your skills, interests, personality type and work values will help you to find a more satisfying and rewarding career.

What do you think is your personality description? Click the relevant box and take your free personality test to get more information and help you make the right career decisions.

Why Bother With A Test?

As a candidate, taking a personality test now will forewarn you to what an employer or recruitment agency will learn about you when you take a psychometric test for them. Reading your own psychometric report is a big help when writing your CV as well as when you are preparing for an interview. If an applicant goes into an interview fully aware of their own faults and prepared to defend them and present their strengths, then the applicant is at a great advantage.

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Now go to: Personality Tests or go on to the next page and take a look at these careers questionnaire examples. These are structured systematic ways of evaluating how people perform on tasks or react to different situations. They all have standardized methods of administration and scoring so that the results may be quantified and compared with how others have done under the same conditions on the same tests (norm groups). Careers Questionnaire are increasingly administered on a computer.

You should also read Self Introduction and get some further thoughts together; it is about how you introduce yourself and is something you must work on once you have been invited to an interview. You must get ready to create the image of someone they will definitely want to hire above all other job applicants. You need to be able to describe your personality but, you also need a brilliant CV to get you there!

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