My personality type, which was determined by 16 Personalities, is commander personality. It is defined as leaders who are willing to fight to gain what they want and challenge others to push themselves to achievement. They are people who refuse to give up when many others may in certain situations. They will fight till the end for their beliefs. Commander personality only makes up 3% of the population and some of the most successful businessmen and women. They are not afraid to take a risk and are known to achieve great results. I agree with this result to a certain extent. I am not a person to give up easily on anything. I always want to see things to the end. I have had the drive to work hard, but I can say my drive never to give up and stick out any challenge was developed from being with my partner. She is always there to push me and help me fight through anything.

Some weaknesses of commander personality are impatience, poor handling of emotion, and arrogance. When I think about my work environment, I do not think I am arrogant. I always try my best to work with everyone I deal with, and each of my subordinates, I try to give them a fair chance in every situation. I do not believe or look at myself as being better at my job than anyone. I am impatient. I often find it hard to leave any work for anyone else to handle for me. The company I work for has different departments, and I often cannot wait for the other department to complete something. I tend to get it done on my own. I will also admit that I can, at times, be a poor handler of emotions. In this situation, when I do talk to my partner, she will point out where I could have been less ‘rude’ to others. I remember a couple of months ago, as I left work, one of my colleagues let me know they left their phone at the store. I told him I am not turning back even though I was close by. My partner, who was on the phone at the time, told me how wrong I was. I know how upset she was; I turned back to get the phone for my colleague. She will often say I need to think of if I were in the same situation, how would I feel.

Some strength of commander personality is self-confident, efficient, and charismatic and inspiring. I do think that I am self-confident. Once I learn something, I will make sure that I am one of the best at it. In my current job, I have learned the position at a rapid speed that the manager said that I am performing so well in a short space of time, and there was only one other person he knew was that good in a short space of time. My self-confidence is high that my family always points out that I need to step off the horse’. I highly believe in efficiency at my job. I have personally sent employees home for lack of efficiency. If you come to work and get the work done, do not come and lay back when there are jobs to complete. Being charismatic and inspiring is something that my family, both my and my partner’s family, says. I am always willing to blend in and create an atmosphere of pushing everyone to relax and enjoy themselves. I have always been the one to motivate my immediate family to reach for the stars and help them in any way I can to get there.

I do not think that a personality test is an effective way to determine whether a candidate is right for the job or not. Many people in interviews always give the interviewer the information they want to hear to get the job. Based on the job description, an interviewee may answer the questions on the personality test to reflect these answers. When we look at a personality test, it is often the same question phrased in different ways. Due to this, a person can stick to the same answers and, if they have taken numerous tests of its type and have done adequate research, they may able to navigate what answers can help gain what results.  Also, a person can have one thing on the test, which can be their view of themselves, but they are nothing like what they stated in reality.