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Personal Traits Inventory
Below is a list of personal traits that people use to describe themselves. Go through the list and check every word that you honestly believe describes yourself.

Academic Active Accurate
Adaptable Adventurous Affectionate
Aggressive Alert Ambitious
Artistic Attractive Businesslike
Calm Capable Cautious
Cheerful Competent Confident
Conscientious Conservative Considerable
Cooperative Courageous Curious
Daring Determined Discreet
Dominant Eager Easygoing
Efficient Emotional Energetic
Fair-minded Farsighted Firm
Flexible Formal Friendly
Generous Gentle Good-natured
Helpful Honest Humorous
Idealistic Imaginative Independent
Individualistic Industrious Informal
Intellectual Intelligent Inventive
Kind Likable Logical
Loyal Mature Methodical
Meticulous Modest Open-minded
Opportunistic Optimistic Organized
Original Outgoing Patient
Peaceable Pleasant Poised
Polite Practical Precise
Progressive Quick Rational
Realistic Reflective Relaxed
Reliable Reserved Resourceful
Responsible Self-confident Self-controlled
Sensible Sensitive Serious
Sincere Sociable Spontaneous
Strong Strong-minded Empathetic
Tactful Teachable Thorough
Thoughtful Tolerant Trusting
Trustworthy Understanding Unexcitable
Uninhibited Verbal Versatile
Wholesome Wise Zany
     

Choose five (5) of the words, checked above, that best describes you. Select them from the lists below.

 

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Of the words you have not checked for yourself, which five (5) of these describe you the least? Select them below.
 

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Now that you have made your selections, you can print out this page.
Use the results from this exercise to help you in searching for a career as well as for help in writing your resume.

Many of the CES Online Tutorials are available in hardcopy form from CES.

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