Having ‘successful’ personality traits can’t be taught. It comes from knowing you will be taken seriously and be given opportunitiesI doubt you will have been surprised to hear that sociability,confidence and assertiveness are “particularly favourable for career success”. A report by the Sutton Trust has suggested that having a lot of these characteristics – collectively defined as extroversion – resulted in a 25% higher chance of earning over £40000 per year.
But beware the bleedin’ obvious. Clear, self-evident truths are often a Trojan horse for contentious, and hidden ones. In this case,the problem is the link made between these character traits and socioeconomic background. “People from more advantaged backgrounds,” the report found, or “had significantly higher levels of extroversion and very considerably higher economic aspirations”.
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Source: theguardian.com