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John Holland theory of personality types
John Holland defined the personality and choice of the persons towards their job
preferences through the enumeration of the RIASEC hexagonal themes. Among the six job
personality types Realistic is indicates the people who have a special preferences towards
mechanical activities through the inclusion of physical objects (Reardon 2017). It has been
noted that in most of the cases the athletes and the people with less skills in the conventional or
entrepreneurial fields opt for the realistic job roles. Investigative is rather defined as a
personality types which is influenced by the observant and analytical skills of the person and
thereby the prefer more of monitoring and evaluation kind of jobs like public servants (Reardon
2017).
The Artistic personalities are defined as people who is into creativity and innovation
based on the intuitional abilities. Social personality is encouraged by people who have an
inclination towards group functioning and are into social enterprises for supporting different
causes. Enterprising personality specifically reflects on the behaviors of the managers and the
leaders who prefers to manage and empower the operations in an organization or a group
(Reardon 2017). Conventional personality is reflected through the preferences of the people
while working in the different clerical and data driven jobs which offered structured situations.
The assessment of the different personality traits among the job seekers enables in
identifying the job fit and their motivation while operating as per the respective job
responsibilities. The assessment of the compatibility of the job as per the preferences is again an
important point of consideration for an individual’s performance at work. Therefore, Holland’s
model serves as a tool for analyzing the preferences as per the personalities to determine the
motivational factors and performance of the people towards their job.

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