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CAREER DERAILMENT INDICATORS

A new study looked at the personality traits of 279 managers to determine whether any significant connections could be made between personality and career derailment using the 16PF Fifth Edition Questionnaire. The research has found:

	Vigilance – the tendency to not trust others, perhaps believing that most people have hidden agendas and will not do what they say they will do — is positively correlated to derailment.
	Abstractedness – the tendency to take a conceptual approach to things; in extreme it can appear as daydreaming or absentmindedness — is positively correlated to derailment.
	Privateness – the tendency to keep personal information to oneself – is negatively correlated to derailment. It is viewed as a predictor of continued career success.

For a further discussion on these and other potential career derailers contact Cresco.