Accepting | Accomplished |
Achiever | Active |
Adaptable | Adept |
Ambitious | Analytical |
Approachable | Artistic |
Assertive | Attentive |
Balanced | Calm |
Candid | Capable |
Careful | Caring |
Cheerful | Collaborative |
Committed | Communicative |
Compassionate | Competent |
Competitive | Confident |
Conscientious | Considerate |
Consistent | Cooperative |
Courteous | Creative |
Critical Thinker | Cultured |
Customer-focused | Dedicated |
Design Thinker | Detail-Oriented |
Determined | Diligent |
Diplomatic | Discreet |
Driven | Dutiful |
Effective | Efficient |
Empathetic | Energetic |
Enterprising | Enthusiastic |
Established | Ethical |
Experienced | Fair |
Fast Learner | Flexible |
Focused | Forgiving |
Friendly | Generous |
Giving | Good With Customers |
Good With People | Good-humored |
Grit | Grounded |
Hard Working | Helpful |
High Cultural Competence | Honest |
Imaginative | Impartial |
Independent | Influential |
Intelligent | Introspective |
Inventive | Judicious |
Knowledgeable | Leader |
Likeable | Logical |
Loyal | Mature |
Meticulous | Observant |
Open-minded | Organized |
Original | Outgoing |
Passionate | Patient |
People Person | Persistent |
Personable | Polished |
Polite | Positive |
Pragmatic | Principled |
Productive | Professional |
Prudent | Punctual |
Rational | Realistic |
Reflective | Relationship Builder |
Relaxed | Reliable |
Renown | Reputable |
Resilient | Resourceful |
Respected | Respectful |
Responsible | Risk Taker |
Self-Directed | Self-Motivated |
Self-Starter | Self-aware |
Self-correcting | Serious |
Sincere | Skilled |
Social | Stable |
Strong Work-Ethic | Sympathetic |
Tactful | Talented |
Tenacious | Thorough |
Tolerant | Trustworthy |
Understanding | Versatile |
Warm | Well-Known |
Well-mannered | Willing to Learn |
Personality Attributes
Personality describes the foundational characteristics of your mind. It is common for people to try to stereotype others into a handful of personality types that disregard the complexity of human character. In this context, it can be helpful to describe yourself with uncommon terms for personality that people will find difficult to assign to these categories.
Social Attributes
Descriptions of how you navigate social situations and build relationships with others. This includes general descriptions of how outgoing you are and deeper characteristics such as being understanding.
Cognitive Attributes
Descriptions of how you tend to think. People can typically handle dozens of modes of thinking to adapt to different situations. For example, creative thinking to generate options and critical thinking to validate these options.
Professional Attributes
Descriptions of how you work in your school, job or business. This includes catch-alls that simply suggest that you're talented such as capable, competent or professional. Professional attributes may also indicate your working style such as organized or enterprising.
Motivational Attributes
Describing your energy and the direction of this energy. For example, whether you are competitive or cooperative and patient.
Moral Attributes
Qualities that indicate how you try to do good and approach different situations in an ethical way. This doesn't mean that you are moralizing and judgemental of others but rather indicates how you govern your own thoughts and actions.
Mindset
Mindset indicates your general outlook on life such as whether you tend to be optimistic or pessimistic. Again, people are very multidimensional and shift into different mindsets depending on the context.
Summary
Personal attributes are typically adjectives that communicate who you are as a person. These may describe your personality and how you think, socialize, work and see the world.
