How your personality impacts your career success (and what you can do about it)

Personality is one of the most underrated predictors of career success in the world. Defined by scientists as the range of habits and typical behaviors that make us who we are—and different from others—and with more than a century of robust academic evidence on how it impacts work and other real-life outcomes, here are some fascinating facts to digest:

(1) The simplest and most reliable way to understand someone’s personality is to look at their scores (position) along five universal traits...