This document discusses soft skills and personality traits needed for career growth. It describes soft skills like emotional intelligence, teamwork, adaptability, and active listening. Personality traits that are important for career success include having a positive attitude, being enthusiastic, ethical, goal-focused, a good listener, networked, persistent, self-aware, self-confident, and self-disciplined. The document also outlines five stages of a career: exploration, establishment, mid-career, late career, and decline. It provides details on soft skills and personality traits most important for each career stage.

1. Soft skills and Personality Traits at different
stages of the career growth
Prepared By:
Mr. Mohammed Jasir PV
Asst. Professor
MIIMS, Puthanangadi
Contact: 9605693266

2. Session Topic
• Soft skills and Personality Traits at different stages of the career growth

3. Topic in detail
• Soft skills
• Personality Traits
• Personality traits are differentiating qualities or characteristics that
are the completion of an individual’s.
• They are your habitual patterns of behavior, character and emotion.
• Career growth
• The building block of successful career development: skills, values,
interests and personality traits

4. Career Stages
1. Exploration
2. Establishment
3. Mid Career
4. Late Career
5. Decline

5. Career Stages

6. Career Stages

8. 7 Soft Skills You Need to Achieve Career Growth
1) Emotional Intelligence
 Self-awareness
 Self-regulation
 Motivation
 Empathy
 Social skill
2) Team Player Attitude
3) Growth Mindset
4) Openness to Feedback
5) Adaptability
6) Active Listening
7) Work Ethic

9. Soft skills for your career
1. Communication
2. Teamwork
3. Adaptability
4. Problem solving
5. Critical observation
6. Conflict resolution
7. Leadership

11. Personality traits for a successful career
• Attitude
• Enthusiastic
• Ethical
• Goal Focused
• Listener
• Networked
• Persistent
• Self-Aware
• Self-Confident
• Self-Discipline

12. Attitude
The capacity to stay optimistic and positive. The #1 quality for career success is
“Championship Thinking.”

13. Enthusiastic
The possession of intense and eager interest in a subject or cause.
It is an energy that often inspires others

14. Ethical
The quality of having and living by a code of sound moral principles.

15. Goal Focused
The ability to have clarity on the objectives that you strive for in your personal and
professional life

16. Listener
The capacity to suspend your own agenda and deliberately and empathically allow
others to be heard

17. Networked
A well developed circle of influence of interconnected positive relationships

18. Persistent
The ability to endure in the face of adversity.
It is a patient and relenting effort to achieve despite difficulties.

19. Self-Aware
The understanding and knowledge of who you are including your skills, values,
interests, behaviors and character

20. Self-Confident
The firm belief in your abilities
Seek professional help if this is an area of weakness – it will be worth it

21. Self-Discipline
The ability to control and restrain impulses
Energy then can be focused and channeled toward your ambitions

22. Thank You