Your Core Skills

You're an impressive confident figure - a one-of-a-kind visionary who is respected for innovative and creative thinking. You are a powerful leader, extremely charismatic and excellent at motivating and inspiring others around your ideas. You're very sensitive and emotionally aware. You like it best when the channels of communication are open.

Potential Areas Of Weakness

You find routine tasks and time management can sometimes slow you down, especially when you've got big thinking to do. But you need to be careful not to take on too many projects as this may lead to a lack of focus. You have a lot of self-belief but this can mean you don't always take criticism well. But you also thrive off interaction and sometimes you may find working quietly on your own to be the biggest challenge of all.

Areas You Might Want To Work On

•  practice synthesising and focusing your thoughts and ideas in a cogent way
•  make a conscious effort to set dedicated time each week for administrative tasks
•  make sure that you involve other team members in your thinking and demonstrate that you value their input

Careers That May Suit You

lighting/set design film/theatre director inventor entrepreneur

Your Detailed Personality Assessment

Recognise that being creative doesn't need to be restricted to one area of activity. You have a rich skill-set that is highly sought-after and transferable across different areas. Your natural entrepreneurism is an extremely valuable and powerful resource if you make the most of it. You are at home in the limelight and have great potential for bringing a team together around shared goals. It's important that you regularly make the time to sit down and really think out-of-the-box about potential opportunities to make the most of your unique capabilities.

When it comes to leadership, you believe in mucking in and being part of the team. Nothing earns the respect of your colleagues like actual hands-on involvement and experience. If you want something done well, you like to show the way and let others follow your lead.

You have a deep connection to your spiritual self. This balanced outlook is an extremely powerful force in your life. You have a healthy sense of perspective and are driven by a strong moral value system.

As far as you're concerned, hard work is the best way to achieve your goals. Short cuts to success are just a false economy. You tend to be quite traditional in your perspective and like to have a clear sense of your career milestones. You believe that effort should be rewarded and that if you put in the hours you'll reap the benefits. However that doesn't mean you always follow your own wisdom. It can be hard to maintain intense levels of focus all the time.

You're in a very positive place right now. You seem to have found a good balance in your work life. This natural serenity is a real strength as it means that you are rarely thrown off course by external stresses. Work may not be doing it for you. There's probably a lot that's been stressing you out and you may be feeling quite stretched and low on inspiration. But you're good at managing your stress and not letting it take over too much. There's more to life than work.

The way you approach each day can have huge implications for your success in the workplace. Something seems to be out of kilter for you right now. You might benefit from taking steps to maintain steadier energy levels in order to be more productive more of the time. This could mean a different diet or a bit of a rethink of your daily routine. Your physical wellbeing clearly affects every aspect of your life and you may find that making incremental changes to your lifestyle could have a really positive impact on your emotional balance and energy reserves.

The Future

You may still be a student but you're smart to be thinking ahead and checking out your career options. You're about to embark on a really exciting time in your life - and there's going to be lots of decisions to make that will shape your future. It's important that you try to get fired up for the challenges ahead. It's a competitive world out there and so you need to try to put as much energy as you can into promoting yourself and really getting your career off the ground. Demonstrate that you have plenty of energy and enthusiasm - these are very attractive qualities. It'll pay off in the long run.

This quiz was developed in conjunction with Dr. Peter Morgan, eminent occupational and mentoring psychologist with extensive public and private sector experience.