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Key Character Traits

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To help you pinpoint your basic character traits, study the following list and select the qualities that best characterize you. For more perspective, ask at least three friends, relatives, or business associates to mark the traits they feel best describe you.

Once you have determined your primary qualities, begin considering how they affect your choice of career goals and how they could increase your potential for securing a particular job.

Able
Accepting
Accomplished
Accurate
Active
Adaptable
Adept
Adroit
Adventurous
Aggressive
Agreeable
Alert
Ambitious
Analytical
Approachable
Apt
Articulate
Artistic
Assertive
Astute
Attentive
Avid
Aware

Bilingual
Businesslike

Calm
Candid
Capable
Careful
Caring
Cautious
Cheerful
Clear-thinking
Committed
Communicative
Compassionate
Competent
Composed
Confident
Congenial
Conscientious
Considerate
Consistent
Constructive
Conventional
Convincing
Cooperative
Creative

Decisive
Dedicated
Deft
Democratic
Dependable
Detailed
Determined
Dexterous
Dignified
Diligent
Diplomatic
Direct
Discerning
Disciplined
Discreet
Distinguished
Dominant
Dynamic

Eager
Earnest
Easy-going
Educated
Effective
Efficacious
Efficient
Eloquent
Energetic
Enterprising
Enthusiastic
Equable
Ethical
Exacting
Experienced
Expert
Expressive
Extroverted

Fair-minded
Familiar (with)
Far-sighted
Firm
Flexible
Focused
Forceful
Forthright
Frank
Friendly
Frugal


Generous
Genuine
Goal-setter
Good listener
Good-natured
Gracious
Gregarious

Hardworking
Healthy
Helpful
Honest

Industrious
Informed
Imaginative
Incisive
Independent
Innovative
Insightful
Inspiring
Intellectual
Intelligent
Intuitive
Inventive
Investigative

Judgmental

Keen
Kind
Knowledgeable

Learned
Logical
Loyal

Mature
Methodical
Meticulous
Modest
Motivated
Multilingual

Natural

Objective
Observant
Optimistic
Orderly

Organized
Original
Outgoing

Patient
Perceptive
Persevering
Persistent
Personable
Persuasive
Pleasant
Poised
Polite
Popular
Positive
Practical
Praiseworthy
Precise
Problem-solver
Productive
Professional
Proficient
Profit-oriented
Progressive
Prolific
Prompt
Prudent
Purposeful

Qualified
Questioning
Quick-thinking

Realistic
Reflective
Relate well
Reliable
Resilient
Resolute
Resourceful
Responsible
Risk-taker

Self-confident
Self-controlled
Self-reliant
Sensitive
Sincere
Skillful
Sociable

Social
Spontaneous
Stable
Steady
Stimulating
Successful
Supportive
Sympathetic
Systematic

Tactful
Talented
Team-player
Tenacious
Thoughtful
Thorough
Thrifty
Tolerant
Trained
Trusting
Trustworthy
Truthful
Undaunted
Understanding

Versatile
Versed
Veteran
Vigorous

Well-educated
Willing to learn

 

Contributed by Sally White & Associates: http://www.sallywhite.com.

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