Fiona MacKay Young

That your personality can help choose a best-fit career is not news. However, the idea that your handwriting can help you choose a career may be a new concept to you. It is however a very valid idea, and one that, in Europe, up to 90% of employers know about, as they use handwriting analysis as part of the employee selection process.

Here we are going to take a quick look at the other side of that coin. We are going to look at how your handwriting can help you, the job seeker, find work that will be compatible with who you really are. Working in a job compatible to your personality is much more enjoyable and less tiring than any other type of work.

Left slanted writers contain their feelings to the extent that others probably feel that they are somewhat withdrawn. So they are best suited to roles where they do not have to interact emotionally, or relate too closely to others. They may enjoy work where they just get on with what they are doing alone, perhaps communicate more by e-mail, or deal with technical problems.

Depending on other things, they may do a great job of working one on one with clients, or even facilitating groups, but they are less likely to get involved or “take their work home with them” when they come across something upsetting.

Jobs which deal with technical or practical things, rather than emotional personal issues would suit them. Computer programming and other computer related work, engineering, anything where they just have to deal with the facts. They may (or may not) be very imaginative within their own field, but will prefer to just get on with it by themselves. They will probably not be very inclined to actively contribute in a team but prefer working along side others rather than in a combined effort with them.

The same goes for the vertical writer. However this writer has an added bonus in that they are very objective. They are not self centred, and they are not easily swayed by emotion, so any job where a cool, calm, objective decision is required, the vertical writer is ideal. Accounting, law, emergency services, any type of analysis and as we mentioned in the Cool Quota Quiz, air traffic controllers.

The right hand slant writer is the one who connects with others emotionally. The farther right the slant, the more the emotional connection. Here are the teachers, the counselors, the politicians (!), the ministers. This is the person who will get emotionally involved with others, with others problems, sometimes to their own determent. A slight right hand slant will do this minimally, the far right hand slant will do it more often.

Of course there are many, many other considerations in handwriting besides slant when it comes to choosing a career, but slant is what we call a global trait, in that it affects every other trait in the personality and, as such, is a very important part of the equation.

Fiona MacKay Young is a Certified Handwriting Analyst, Certified Career Development Practitioner, Personal Development Coach , Freelance Writer and Ghostwriter.
She can be contacted through her website www.fionamackayyoung.com

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