Looking For Direction

Mrs A, a surveyor, wanted to be profiled as she was very interested in whether it would reveal her true feelings about how unhappy she was in her current job.

However, the results did not turn out to be that simple!

Her profile did not reveal her personality traits and characteristics, likes and dislikes, and motivations, as is the case with most people, but showed an underlying problem in the workplace.

Her profile showed that Mrs A was feeling demotivated, insecure and frustrated.  Her attempts to achieve her objectives at work were being thwarted and she was not being managed effectively.  This all resulted in a general feeling of depression and the perception that her life was going horribly wrong.

When I relayed this information back to Mrs A, with some apologies that I would not be able to tell her about her personality, she looked absolutely amazed and a little abashed.   She said that he had not spoken to anyone at work about how unhappy she was, but that she was desperate to leave her job.

In fact, she had been so miserable that she was questioning whether she wanted to change her career entirely.  She could not believe that ticking a few boxes could reveal so many of her hidden feelings.  It all served to highlight the urgency of her dilemma.  In fact, some weeks later I discovered that she had left her job and was looking for another.

The moral of the story: it sometimes takes someone else to tell you what you already know and to make you do something about it!

There is a lot of information on psychometric profiling on this website, which you are welcome to browse, by following the links below:

• What is profiling used for?
• What can profiling do for me?
• How does profiling work?
• Meet the profiling practitioner, Deborah Aharoni
• Psychometric profiling case studies
  • Looking for direction
  • Looking for a job
  • Looking for an employee
  • Why don’t I like…?

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