Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Physical Self
• Appearance and condition of the body make up
the physical self.
• Most employers are impressed with individuals
who are clean and neat and who make an effort to
present their best appearance.
• Wellness is a high degree of physical and mental
well-being. Health is a significant factor in career
success.
2. Mental/Cognitive Self
• Intelligence
– Can be thought of as mental ability and is usually
assessed on tests of language, mathematical, and
reasoning abilities.
– You may have a high IQ, which reflects a score on a
certain test; however, this probably won’t matter as
much as your eagerness to learn and your ability to
solve problems.
• Thinking
– The ability to activate and then pursue mental activity,
is necessary in any job.
– Certain occupations demand creative thinking, the
ability to generate new ideas; others require critical
thinking, an aptitude for probing deeper and examining
the logic of differing points.
– Alertness, flexibility, and a keen desire to exercise your
brain are critical elements in career development. They
also affect life satisfaction.
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• Attitude
– A state of mind that is reflected of how we approach
life.
– Creating and keeping a positive attitude toward your
work, your employer, and life in general has the most
profound impact on career success.
– You can still have a positive attitude and realize that
life is not absolutely wonderful all the time. Being
positive means that you look on the brighter side of
events, that you are more “up” than “down”, and that
you usually feel responsible and in control of yourself.
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• Self-fulfilling Prophecies
– Beliefs about the self have a tremendous impact.
– Self-fulfilling prophecies are beliefs that are acted out
and, thus, confirmed.
– Eg. Ali believed he was persuasive. He convinced his
supervisor to try an idea that could save money for the
company.
– Examine your self-fulfilling prophecies. Keep the ones
that are useful and change those that are not.
– Eg. Siti interviewed for a job she really wanted and was
told that someone else was selected. She immediately
thought, “Either I didn’t do interview well, or they just
don’t like me. This is probably the way my job search is
going to go.” As a result of her thoughts, she feels
dejected and hopeless. Instead she could tell herself “
Just because I wasn’t selected doesn’t mean I didn’t
interview well or that they didn’t like me. I’ll think of
this as a learning experience and keep looking.”
Obviously, her feelings of dejection and hopelessness
would disappear.
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3. Emotional Self
• Human beings are emotional, and our feelings both enrich
and disturb our lives.
• Emotion such as happiness, sadness, concern, pride, anger,
and excitement bring texture and color to human
existence.
• “Complex” is a common way of describing the emotional
self.
• Many people find it difficult to get in touch with their
feelings, and they may not know what can occur in the
presence of emotion.
• Extraversion – Introversion (E or I)
– External or internal orientation to the world and source
of life energy.
• Sensing – Intuition (S or N)
– Ways of taking in and processing information.
• Thinking – Feeling (T or F)
– Use of thought or feelings in decision making.
• Judgment – Perception (J or P)
– Modes of dealing with and living in the outer world.
2. Sensing(S) / Intuition(N)
• Sensing – you tend to be realistic, practical,
observant, and good at remembering and working
with a great number of facts.
• Intuition – you value and use your imagination,
have new ideas, and enjoy solving problems.
• Sensors (S) are concrete and attuned to details
while intuitives (N) are visionary and ablaze with
possibilities and ideas.
4. Judgment(J) / Perception(P)
• Judgment – you prefer living in a planned,
decided, orderly way, wanting to regulate life and
maintain control over events.
• Planning and preparation are typical behavior.
Judgers (J) seek closure and prefer to reach a
decision or judgment quickly.
• Keyword: organization
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