Personalities put to the test in university seminar
How our personalities affect the jobs we do and our chances of career success is the subject of a free seminar at the University of Greenwich on Wednesday, 8 February.
Jon Gowlland, an occupational psychologist who specialises in psychometric testing, is the main speaker at the event, titled Personality in the UK. Using his wide experience of assessing job applicants from accountants to bus drivers, and from call centre workers to fund managers, he will examine why the personality traits of people appointed to roles are often at odds with those actually required.
“Most people do not fail in their job because of a lack of aptitude, skill or knowledge. They fail because they are temperamentally unsuited to that job”, he says. “I’ll be tapping in to some of the psychological processes that help and hinder our judgment when we make decisions about people. We’ll see why interviews often reward the wrong people, and learn how employers can spot the fatal flaw in a potential employee before it’s too late.”
Jon Gowlland is also a Visiting Lecturer in Psychology and Employability at the University of Greenwich, and writes for Channel 4 and other media as a resident psychologist.
The seminar, which is open to all, will also address issues of personality in more general terms, such as how people can use their own character to their best advantage. It will be particularly valuable to anyone involved in selection and recruitment, and to those with an interest in human behaviour in the workplace.
It takes place between 5pm and 7pm in Room QA180, Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus.
To register for the seminar, or for further information, please contact the Business School Events team at businessevents@gre.ac.uk with your full name, organisation, email address and contact number.
To find out about studying business at the University of Greenwich, please visit www.gre.ac.uk/schools/business Alternatively, please email courseinfo@greenwich.ac.uk or call 020 8331 9000.
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