Essays on Personality Profile

Effective staffing is a concept that many firms do not devote sufficient time to. What these firms fail to realize is that if they invest their capital throughout the hiring process to find the proper candidate for the job, then they will have a larger reward payoff later on. The reason for this is that by finding the correct candidate for the job, they are essentially going to find someone who will be happy in their job because their personality is the proper fit, which in turn will produce more profitability in the future. The way that a prospective ...

Psychology

Article Being Reviewed Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2012). Interpersonal development, stability and change in early adulthood. Journal of Personality 80/5, 1340-1372. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00761.x . Retrieved 22 Nov 2014, from EBSCOHost database.

Introduction

The paper aims to research the ‘development of the interpersonal system’ mapped by the ‘interpersonal circumplex’ in early adulthood (ages 18-22). The paper recounts the considerable body of previous research studying the personality changes that occur across the life span of a human being. Researchers have observed that personality traits are highly stable in adulthood, barring exceptions. The mean rate of change in personality traits remains minimal, ...

After taking the Myers-Briggs test about my writing, I was given the personality profile of an INTJ – Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging. Looking at the various attributes of each personality section, I find it very interesting to see the things I am meant to be identified with – I agree with many, disagree on others. Either way, this test helps me better understand the process by which I write and think about writing.

Introvert

According to the writing test, Introverted writers write in isolation – I do agree with this; I find myself going off by myself, as it is the best place ...

There is enough evidence showing that many private investors make investment mistakes, such as non participation in the stock market at all, under diversification and overestimation of the domestic equity in their portfolios. Therefore value at risk assists them to estimate the potential loss of these risky assets over a specific period of time. Hence if the value at risk on an assert is $ 100 million at a one-week, 95% confidence level, there is a only a 5% opportunity that the value of an asset will fluctuate more than$ 100 million within a specific period of time. The value at risk is ...