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You're a Barn Owl!

Looks like you're a Barn Owl along with around 2% of people in the UK. Find out more about your natural strengths and areas to improve, plus the types of job that might best suit your personality.

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Independent

Determined

Strategic

Barn Owls are considered symbols of intelligence, determination, and wisdom; qualities which can drive and guide people with Barn Owl preferences.

They can be successful in a wide range of subjects and careers due to their desire to be excellent at things they commit to. Patient and methodical, Barn Owls are great with complicated situations and working on things for a long time. They are natural planners who are careful with facts. 

Barn Owls are keen to conduct research and gain detailed subject knowledge, often becoming an expert in the things they learn.

Natural roles for Barn Owls

Inventor

Manager

Expert

Characteristics

Barn Owls thrive in calm, serious, and creative environments where they can work independently and have plenty of time for self-directed research and reflection.

Often intense and able to absorb theories and ideas quickly, only to reimagine these and invent new solutions. They can also enjoy working in competitive situations as this provides an opportunity to demonstrate and share their competence and knowledge.

Barn Owls are likely to struggle if they become bored of the topic or method of teaching, they respect creative and competent teachers.

Strengths

Improvements

In a team a Barn Owls will:

Be a good analytical listener, can record and remember ideas offered by others.

Suggest creative and new ideas, think about the whole project as well as the task ahead.

Welcome ideas from others that improve your group’s chances of success.

Welcome relevant ideas from other team members.

Be organised, create, and stick to a schedule and roles for everyone

Things for Barn Owls work on:

Make sure you do contribute tactfully and speak up, especially in larger
groups.

Explain your most imaginative ideas clearly in steps so others can
understand what you mean.

Don’t appear bossy, others can be more sensitive to criticism than you.
Remember to criticise the idea not the person.

Don’t do everything yourself, teams work better when everyone contributes.

Advice for Barn Owls

We asked older Barn Owls what advice they’d send back to their teenage self to make sure they were happy and successful. This is what they said:

  • Share your feelings and be vulnerable, especially with people you’re close to.
  • Relax, be silly and enjoy the world around you as it is, not how you could improve it.
  • To hide your annoyance at ideas you find poorly thought through. 

Do you think this advice can help you?

Job and course ideas

Barn Owl’s like to understand and influence complex situations. Leading people or resources suit this desire. They enjoy becoming experts in their chosen career and can thrive in many environments including engineering, design, science, finance, education, surveying, photography, and computing. 

New and emerging careers can suit the Barn Owl’s interest in shaping the future so why not consider courses covering:

  • Blockchain
  • Virtual and Augmented Reality
  • Artificial Intelligence. 

Create a list of your top ten job ideas. You can update it when you have new ideas.

Here are some suggestions to get you started:

  • App Developer
  • Cyber Intelligence Officer
  • Climate Scientist
  • Environmental Consultant
  • Forensic Collision Investigator
  • Architect
  • Lawyer
  • Teacher
  • Construction Site Supervisor

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