There are eleven different temperaments. Each is defined below. Temperaments are not reported in levels like other assets. You either like a certain type of situation or you don't. You might want to keep this page open so you can refer to it as you choose your important temperaments. You can also go to Vocational Assets Profile and use the form there to record your choices. Once you have an idea about your vocational assets, you can review the various job description listed at All About Careers. To help you compare your temperaments with those of careers, you should choose 2 or 3 of the most important temperaments for you. In other words, choose those temperaments to which you are most willing to adapt.

Temperaments

D - Directing, Controlling, or Planning Activities of Others

Involves accepting responsibility for formulating plans, designs, practices, policies, methods, regulations, and procedures for operations or projects; negotiating with individuals or groups for agreements or contracts; and supervising subordinate workers to implement plans and control activities.

Examples: Managing an office, teaching a class, implementing a health program, or chairing a committee.

R - Performing Repetitive or short-cycle work

Involves performing a few routine and uninvolved tasks over and over again according to set procedures, sequence, or pace with little opportunity for diversion or interruption. Interaction with people is included when routine, continual or prescribed.

Examples: Sorting mail, assembling a product, transcribing testimony, or being a cashier.

I - Influencing, People in their Opinions, Attitudes, and Judgements

Involves writing, demonstrating, or speaking to persuade and motivate poeple to change their attitudes or opinions, participate in a particular activity, or purchase a specific commodity or service.

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Examples: Selling a product, producing an advertising campaign, managing a fashion show, or conducting a sales meeting.

V - Performing a Variety of Duties

Involves frequent changes of tasks involving different aptitudes, technologies, techniques, procedures, working conditions, physical demands, or degrees of attentiveness without loss of efficiency or composure.

Examples: accomodating hotel patrons, assisting a physician, performing administrative duties, or planning a meeting or convention.

E - Expressing Personal Feelings

Involves creativity and self-expression in interpreting feelings, ideas, or facts in terms of a personal viewpoint; treating a subject imaginatively rather than literally; reflecting original ideas or feelings in writing, paianting, composing, sculpting, decorating, or inventing; or interpreting works of others by arranging, conducting, playing muscial instruments, choreographing, acting, directing, critiquing, or editorializing.

Examples: Writing a newspaper column, directing a play, writing a story, or teaching ballet.

A - Working Alone or Apart in Physical Isolation from Others

Involves working in an environment that regularly precludes face-to-face interpersonal relationships for extended periods of time due to physical barriers or distances involved.

Examples: Managing a remote site, Long-distance driving, working undersea, or being a forest ranger or explorer.

S - Performing Effectively under Stress

Involves coping with circumstances dangerous to the worker or others.

Examples: a firefighter of police officer, being a surgeon or air-traffic controller, testing a new airplane or vehicle or repairing high voltage wires.

T - Attaining Precise Set Limits, Tolerances, and Standards

Involves adhering to and achieving exact levels of performance, using precision measuring instruments, tools, and machines to attain precise dimensions, preparing exact verbal and numerical records; and complying with precise instruments and specifications for materials, methods, procedures, and techniques to attain specified standards.

Examples: Measuring drugs, setting up machinery, auditing records, designing a building, or performing a dance routine with others.

U - Working Under Specific Instructions

Performing tasks only under specific instructions, allowing little or no room for independent action or judgement in working out job problems.

Examples: Inspecting products, installing materials, mixing chemicals, or using jeweler's tools.

P - Dealing with People

Involves interpersonal relationships in job situations beyond receiving work instructions.

Examples: Counseling people, interviewing job applicants, or being a social worker.

J - Making Judgements and Decisions

Involves solving problems, making evaluations, or reaching conclusions based on subjective or objective criteria, such as the five senses, knowledge, past experiences, or quantifiable or factual data.

Examples: Testing products, planning the layout of a newspaper, evaluating applications for insurance or loans, or determining the value of property.