With all issues and questions about FiT In™, e.g. regarding the nature and purpose of the test, or the report, technical problems, etc, you need to contact the person who asked you to do FiT In™ (who provided you the access link).

There is no "Good" and "Bad" personality, no "Right" and "Wrong" answers, and you cannot fail FiT In™. If you responded honestly to the questions; if you tried to give a realistic picture of yourself, then you successfully completed the FiT In™ Professional Personality Questionnaire.

It is normal that you found it was very difficult to select among the 4 items sometimes. It happens to everyone, that in certain blocks, you may feel that more items seem to be equally "Most valid"; or more items seem to be equally "Least valid", and this makes selection difficult. Different people have this feeling with different questions. If you followed your intuition, or if you gave some thoughts to the items and you tried to make your best choice according to the instructions, than you still get an accurate profile.

FiT In™ Professional Personality Questionnaire provides a sophisticated personality profile with assessment on 26 job related personality traits and the "big five", and it also has measures to check answer consistency. Short questionnaires cannot offer such features. Considering the breadth, depth, and accuracy of the assessment, your efforts and time spent on the questionnaire is really justified!

FiT In™ Professional Personality Questionnaire was developed for Recruitment, Succession & Career Planning, and Training. It is ideal for job-fit analysis from the viewpoint of personality, for raising self-awareness, and for self development.

Our working definition for personality as it is measured with FiT In™ was influenced by the following two definitions of outstanding researchers:

Personality is that which permits a prediction of what a person will do in a given situation.
- Raymond B. Cattell

Personality is the enduring characteristics of the person that are significant for interpersonal behavior.
- Goodstein and Lanyon

Personality matters in all stages and areas of our life, but the emphasis is different at home, at work or in clinical settings. FiT In™ has a clearly defined focus on the work related behavior of normal people. FiT In™ measures individual differences in the enduring characteristics of people that enable the prediction of job-related behavior tendencies and patterns.

Can I change my personality?

Please note that our definition of personality does not include character faults such as laziness, irresponsibility, or dishonesty. If you have such faults in your character, of course, you need to work on them; you can and you must change them. Personality must not be an excuse for bad performance like poor time management, outrageous communication style, careless attitude, or low work quality! Our concept of personality is in the range of socially and professionally acceptable behavior.

Personality is partly inborn, partly formed throughout childhood, and partly a life-long process. It is quite steady in adulthood, and significant change is strongly related to major changes in one's life and in the external environment. For example: moving to another city or country, marriage, war, or a new job may effect personality. Let's see one case a bit closer: leaving the parents and going to college in a big city changed a reserved, melancholic young man into an outgoing and cheerful person in just one year. How did it happen? In that year, our young man received lots of stimulation, met new friends and new role models, learned many new ideas, had to think and make decisions for himself, fell in love and had a lot's of fun. From this case you can see how many factors it takes to see a significant change!

As people get older and more mature, their personality is harder to change. The change takes a long time and energy, and it is seldom radical. Our advice is to build on your personality instead of trying to change it - what you perceive as weakness may be your unique strength! Choose a lifestyle and career that suits your personality and allows to use your natural strengths.

What you may need is to develop behavioral flexibility to compensate for your blind spots in personality. Behavioral flexibility means to stretch yourself from time to time "into the other direction". For example: You may be someone who prefers to be alone or in the company of the few people close to you; instead of participating in events with a large crowd. In our case, you are invited to the annual party of your company, with dozens of colleagues, with many customers and suppliers coming. You are not a sales person, you don't like these events and the superficial party conversations - so what do you do? Behavioral flexibility means that you know, that this is not something you like and want to do all the time, but because it is an important role for your career, you decide to participate this time. And you decide to do it just as if you loved such parties! As a behavioral flexibility exercise, you will do your best to engage in and enjoy the event. You will act like a sociable, flamboyant, popular person: you talk faster, you meet and mixed with new people, you tell the stories, make the jokes. You don't let anyone see that you don't like parties, nobody shall guess that it makes you really tired and you have a bad stomach. Your friends should say: - Hi, and I thought you hate these parties!, And you shall beam back joyfully: - Hey, this is a special one!

Behavioral flexibility is different from changing your personality, because it is about changing your behavior in some limited situations. It is a result of analyzing the specific situation, and making a conscious decision. Behavioral flexibility is based on self awareness; it requires you to know your natural strengths and preferences; it allows yourself to act in your comfort zone most of the time, but when it is important, and you decide so, you stretch yourself, and you act according to what the situation requires, instead of following your habitual behavior mode in that specific case. Behavioral flexibility is a realistic goal and a useful method!