Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Work is a defining element of modern human life, with the average person spending over 90,000 hours at work during their lifetime. The global workforce encompasses an incredibly diverse range of occupations, from manufacturing and construction to healthcare, technology, and professional services. In the United States alone, there are over 840 detailed occupational categories tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including white-collar professionals, blue-collar trades, service workers, and union labor. With approximately 65% of the world's working-age population (aged 15-64) participating in the labor force – nearly 3.4 billion people – the variety of career paths is vast. People navigate these countless options based on their unique combinations of skills, interests, abilities, and personal characteristics. Recent research has demonstrated strong connections between individuals' Five Factor personality traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) and their occupational choices and success (Anni et. al., 2024).

In8ness.com is excited to introduce two innovative tools that help users explore these personality-occupation connections. Our Job-Personality Explorer provides an interactive visualization of how different jobs cluster across the Big Five personality dimensions. Users can select any two personality traits to compare, revealing patterns across more than 200 occupations. For instance, you might discover how sales professionals and research scientists differ in their typical extraversion levels, or how creative and technical roles show distinct patterns of openness. Our second tool, the Personality-Career Match Report, takes this exploration further by allowing users to input their own Five Factor personality scores and generate custom reports comparing their trait patterns with those typically found in different occupations.

Understanding the relationship between personality and career patterns can provide valuable insights into the professional landscape and workplace dynamics. Whether you're curious about how personality traits manifest across different industries or interested in exploring the characteristics associated with various professions, these new tools offer unique perspectives on the intersection of personality and work. We invite you to explore these innovative features and discover the fascinating patterns that emerge when personality meets profession.

You can access the new tool by selecting "Jobs / Professions" from the Resources menu bar.

The first part of the tool presents full details on the 200+ jobs and their personality traits most commonly associated with each, based on personality trait estimates across large samples of working adults.

Further down the page, you will find the data explorer chart. This interactive chart provides User's the ability to select two personality traits and map the trait combination patterns for each job.

Users also have the ability to compare individual personality traits with the database of professional personality trait patterns to determine which jobs typically have people whose traits more or less align.

To access the comparison, you first need to complete an assessment. Then from the assessments area, click on the "Job Matches" button.

RESULT: You will be directed to the job matches comparison report for that assessment.

The top two sections of the report contain summaries of the five jobs that are most-closely and least-closely aligned with the Subject's asssessment traits. Descriptions of the jobs are provided below each chart.

The final section in the report prints a table, sorted descending from jobs that have the closest trait profile similarity to least similar, as compared to the Subject.