I want you to imagine that you are a 24 year old graduate going for job interviews. In this instance, you are being interviewed by a multinational who takes you to the next stage- completing a range of psychometric assessments followed by an interview with a psychologist. Imagine if you will, that this psychologist starts his interview with you by saying you are ‘too optimistic’, that you are a ‘Pollyanna’, that ‘you are unrealistic in seeing the world in such as positive light’, claiming there is something really wrong with you.
How would you feel? Well, this scenario happened to me back in the mid 1980s. My sunny, optimistic disposition was deemed a fatal career flaw by this psychologist. WHAT? I was shocked and initially really upset by his analysis. Why was this a … read more by subscribing.
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