Finding Career Fit For An AI Age.
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Many months ago I was given early access to the beta version of a new service which promised to help an individual better understand themselves and find ways navigate their career in ways that were aligned with and fit their personality.
Trying the beta version I was surprised at not only how easy and fast it was to use but also how accurate and revealing it was.
Today the service called myTrudy is available to everybody for free to try at myTrudy.Com
It will provide a person with their PQ which is personality quotient in less than five minutes.
It became clear to me that myTrudy’s Personality Quotient approach would be important in the AI Age where what we know and what we have done will become less important than who we are and what we can become!
This week on The Rethinking Work Show Avi Steinlauf the CEO and Co-founder of myTrudy and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic another of the Co-founders share the science, the thinking, and the ways their service can augment an individual in finding fit while also helping companies find the right talent that fits their firm.
Avi most recently was the CEO of Edmunds.com. Tomas is an international authority in people analytics, talent management, leadership development, and the Human-AI interface. He is also Chief Science Officer at Russell Reynolds Associates. The other two founders of MyTrudy are Peter Steinlauf and Dr Seymour Adler. Peter Steinlauf acquired Edmunds Publications in 1980 and launched Edmunds.Com in 1995 which grew to be the pre-eminent automobile site before being sold to CarMax. Dr. Seymour Adler has been awarded the Distinguished Professional Contribution Award from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in recognition of his career-long and global impact on talent assessment and development practice.
Encourage listening to or watching the entire conversation with Avi and Tomas but here are some key insights and provocations:
1. Who we are is an under-rated determiner of future career success: Our success is t based not just on our IQ or EQ or TQ(Technology Quotient) but also on our own personality or PQ ( Personality Quotient). Today in an AI age, IQ and TQ are often being outpaced by machine intelligence making EQ and PQ more important.
2. The new PQ test identifies five key traits and reveals three keys to career success: The five traits are agreeableness, conscientiousness, how extroverted one is, how open one is and emotional stability. Three keys to future career success are SDL where S is smart and ability to learn, D is drive or ability to work hard and L is likability or ability to get along with others.
3. Reinvention will be the key to career success: As we work with Alien Intelligence (AI) and Replicants (Agents) our ability to reinvent what we work on , how we work and most important how we learn and unlearn will be key. As will our ability to persist, adapt and work alongside and collaborate with messy humans. To reinvent ourselves for the future of work we will need to understand ourselves.
4. Beyond the Resume and LinkedIn: One’s resume and LinkedIn profile while important are backward looking in a world which moves forward and companies focus on hiring for future potential. A LinkedIn profile is the road we have travelled while our personality and PQ serves as a GPS to help us navigate the next turn in our career journey.
5. PQ will be key for for a world of work versus a world of jobs: We may have passed peak full time jobs in many countries but not peak work opportunities. As companies in an AI age focus on getting work done versus filling jobs, and many individuals through choice or circumstances pursue portfolio careers, a key to success will be fit. What work fits us. How can companies fit work to the skill and the personality of the candidate? How can individuals look for opportunities that fit us versus searching for jobs?
6. Persistent Career Blueprint we can all own: While the world changes fast our personalities do not. But how should we architect, sculpt and hone ourselves to remain relevant ? One way is to sprout wings around the roots of our true selves which is our personality. PQ is part of the persistent career blueprint we can all own.
Listen or watch the entire episode. It will be 40 minutes that will make you think differently about your future career, how to manage your team and how to hire for your firm. And you can access MyTrudy and the free Personality Quotient test here: https://mytrudy.com/
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