Why Leave Career Choices to Luck
A greater proportion of men than women are putting their career choices down to nothing more than luck, a survey has revealed.
The study, by workplace psychologist OPP, found that one in five women allow blind chance to guide them along their career paths.
Among male employees, however, this figure rises to almost one in four - from 20 per cent to 24 per cent respectively.
Men are also more likely to look towards professions that lie outside of the range of skills at which they are actually good.
Some 47 per cent of women remain within their core skillset, compared with 41 per cent of male respondents to the survey.
And more than a quarter of men cite opportunism as a guiding force in their career progression, compared with 19 per cent of women.
However, the female respondents were seen to be more likely to trust their instinct when assessing other people's ability to do their job.
They were also less likely than their male counterparts to dismiss psychometric tests as being unlikely to provide a useful result.
OPP itself offers a range of psychometric tests for use in determining the aptitude of employees and enhancing interpersonal relationships.
However, the company advises that it is important to select the correct psychometric instrument for a given application, in order to gain a meaningful result.
