Your personal qualities
There are no good or bad personal qualities — it all depends on when, where and how you use them. Sometimes it’s good to be calm and compassionate. In another job, it might be more important to be quick and fearless.
When you are job seeking, it is important to be able to put what you are good at into words. Employers often care as much about your personal qualities as about your education and job experience.
A-B
Adaptable
Adventurous
Alert
Ambitious
Appreciative
Attentive
Brave
C
Calm
Careful
Cautious
Charismatic
Clear-sighted
Compassionate
Competent
Consistent
Cooperative
Creative
D
Determined
Diligent
Diplomatic
Disciplined
Discrete
Driven
Dynamic
E-F
Economical
Efficient
Energetic
Enthusiastic
Exceptional
Experienced
Expert
Fast
Fit
Flexible
G-H
Gentle
Goal-oriented
Good-humoured
Happy
Hard-working
Humble
Humorous
I
Impulsive
Independent
Initiating
Innovative
Insightful
L-M
Loyal
Methodical
Motivated
O
Objective
Open
Organised
Outgoing
P
Patient
Persistent
Pioneering
Positive
Practical
Precise
Professional
Protective
Prudent
Punctual
Q
Quality-conscious
Quick-thinking
R
Rational
Realistic
Receptive
Reliable
Responsible
Results-oriented
S
Self-confident
Self starter
Self-controlled
Sensitive
Serious
Service-minded
Sharp
Sincere
Smart
Strong
Structured
Stubborn
Supportive
T
Tactical
Talkative
Thorough
Thoughtful
Tough
Trustworthy
U-V
Unafraid
Unique
Unpretentious
Unrelenting
Unstressed
Versatile
Vigilant
W
Well-informed
Well-reasoned
Remember that
The words listed are intended to inspire you when you write your application. Therefore, avoid writing the words so that they could be perceived as “CV words”. Instead, try to explain and describe in a more detailed way what you are good at.