PSD Personal Finance
Unit 1: This is me
Name:
Assignment: Personality
Knowing who you are as a person can improve your ability to work with others in any situation.
Based on your exploration of content in the “Finding Your Intelligences” section answer the
following:
1. What is your preferred learning style? Give a brief description of how this fits (or doesn’t
fit) how you perceive yourself.
2. Describe one strategy that will help you in your studies.
For each of the scenarios below, consider what you learned about yourself in this unit and answer
each question.
1. You have just completed high school and your uncle offers to hire you at his advertising
firm. He offers you an annual salary of $40,000. You will travel every other week, have
long hours and have to work closely with other people to give presentations when you
travel.
a. Does this job fit your values? Explain.
b. Does this job fit your skills and interests? Explain.
c. Does this job allow you to use your top intelligences? Does it help you build on
your weaknesses? Explain.
d. Would take this job? Explain why or why not.
2. Your uncle wants to hire you for the advertising job. He took the Personality Inventory
last year and discovered that he is an ENFJ.
a. Compare your personality to his.
1. How are you the same?
2. How are you different?
b. How might your personality differences or similarities be helpful?
c. How might the differences or similarities cause problems in the workplace?
d. With all of this in mind, would you want to work for him? Explain.
3. During your senior year in high school you need to earn some extra cash. You decide to
get a part time job at Subway. After working there for a month a new employee, John, is
hired. One evening, you and John are closing the store together when he decides to take
PSD Personal Finance
Unit 1: This is me
several bags of the meat and cheese home with him. He also takes off 15 minutes before
closing.
a. How do you respond to his actions? Be specific and explain why.
b. Does your response fit with your values and your personality? Explain.
4. Explain a time when you had to work/hang out with someone you did not really get along
with.
a. How did you deal with the situation?
b. What was it about their personality that you found difficult to get along with?
c. How does your personality compare to the person you had to work with?
d. How could knowing the person’s personality type have helped you work with him
or her?
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