Meaning & use
personality profile
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Meanings
nouncountable
A summary of someone's typical traits, habits and ways of behaving, often produced from a questionnaire or test.
Grammar: Countable: each candidate received a personality profile.
Patterns
- a personality profile of someone
- complete a personality profile
The company asked every applicant to complete an online personality profile.
Her personality profile suggested she was outgoing but easily bored by routine.
A counselor used the personality profile to discuss possible careers.
nouncountable
A short piece of writing or a broadcast segment that describes what a particular person is like, as in a magazine feature.
Grammar: Often followed by of or on: a personality profile of the new mayor.
Patterns
- a personality profile of someone
- a personality profile on someone
The magazine ran a long personality profile of the retiring coach.
I read a personality profile on the author before her talk.
Word forms
| plural | personality profiles |
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Common combinations
- build a personality profile
- Therapists build a personality profile over several sessions.
- complete a personality profile
- Please complete a personality profile before your interview.
- a detailed personality profile
- The report gave a detailed personality profile of each team member.
- match a personality profile
- He did not match the personality profile the employer wanted.
Synonyms and how they differ
- character sketch
- A character sketch is a short written portrait, often of a fictional person, while a personality profile is often based on tests or data.
- personality test
- A personality test is the process used to measure, whereas the profile is the result it produces.
- portrait
- Portrait is a more literary word for a full description of a person and does not suggest any testing.
Word family
- personality noun
- the combination of traits that make a person distinct
- personal adjective
- belonging to or concerning one individual
- profile noun
- a short description of someone or something
- personable adjective
- pleasant and easy to like
Commonly confused: personality profile or personnel?
personality profile vs personnel
Personnel means the staff of an organization and is stressed on the last syllable. It is not about a person's character.
Practice
The recruiter said my ______ showed that I work best in small teams.
Choose one answer.
A personality profile describes a person's typical traits, so it can show how someone prefers to work. A contract, reference or vacancy does not analyze character.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “personality profile”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.