Personal Assessment

To determine the right career for someone they need to carefully access the following personality factors:

• Type of personality and character:
  • Use of Myers-Briggs Test and other personal assessment tests.
  • Specific character traits and behaviors, such as a team player, leader, listener, advocate, environmentalist, or patriot.
    
    
• Special language skills: Languages play a crucial role in downsizing your potential for international involvement. Below is a table of the most frequently used world languages that can guide one in selecting suitable language(s) or tell one where they stand in terms of language skill:
  
  

  Language	World Rank	Number of countries in which language is spoken	Number (in millions) of native speakers worldwide	Percentage of native speakers worldwide
  Chinese	1	16	885	13.8
  Hindi	2	17	375	5.9
  Spanish	3	43	358	5.6
  English	4	104	347	5.4
  Arabic	5	17	211	3.3
  Bengalí	6	9	210	3.3
  Portuguese	7	33	178	2.8
  Rusian	8	30	165	2.6
  Japanese	9	26	125	2
  German	10	40	100	1.6
  French	11	53	77	1.2
  Malaysian-Indonesian	12	14	58	1
  TOTAL			3,089	48.3

  
  
• Specific knowledge, skills, and personal talents: Knowledge and interest of a specific culture or ethnicity is important. Personal interest in a culture usually comes from one's origins, but sometimes it comes arise as a personal interest that one has developed in the very early stages of starting a career.
  
  
• Traveling experience and geographical areas of interest play a large part. Some questions that will help one refine his potential geographical interests include:
  • What kind of traveling sites do you enjoy and where are those located in the world?
  • What kind of climates do you like?
  • What are your favorite means of transportation and are those available in your country/area of interest?
  • What is your favorite continent/country? Where you would love to live?
  • How important is food to you and what is its availability in the area/country of interest?