You are right, shyness has to do with temperament and introversion has to do
with personality, but the two are often quite connected. My shyness is real
shyness -- panic attacks when confronted with a roomful of people I don't
know. I was the child who hid under the table when strangers came to the
door and still have a strong desire to do that, though I can usually talk
myself through it. And that is why I distinguished my extroversion as a love
of collaboration and advocacy. I would be very careful when recommending a
certain personality type for a job -- you could be excluding some highly
qualified candidates. It may seem right on the surface, but people are drawn
to a career for many different reasons including things that may not have
much to do with our personalities such as timing, location and pay, and as I
stated before, we are complex creatures and one test does not constitute a
full evaluation of an individual. I love my job, partially because I am in
contact with virtually all departments and employees (there's the
collaboration), and I take my advocacy role quite seriously. I also enjoy
the solitude of my job -- off in my own building working with all that
information right at my fingertips. And I feel a strong creative outlet in
my work through analysis and problem solving. Of course, maybe Bob Dalton
had it right -- I'm a Gemini, too, or two, as the case may be. ;)

Dianne Hagan
Carrier Corporation

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