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You're a Falcon!

Looks like you're an Falcon along with around 3% 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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Enterprising

Performer

Outspoken

Falcons are the fast. They move with dizzying speed from idea to idea and task to task. Falcons are energetic, visionary, direct, flexible, and generally keen to share their thoughts.

Falcons are alert, outspoken and always interesting company, they find it very easy to communicate, making them natural negotiators. They can be both engaging and exhausting company. They like pushing boundaries and enjoy negotiating changes in the rules. Imaginative and creative iconoclasts, they strive to be different creating a unique sense of style.

Falcons are usually accident-prone risk-takers. They enjoy variety and action and tend to leave things until the last minute. Tend to ask ‘Why?’

Natural roles for Falcons

Creator

Performer

Negotiator

Characteristics

Falcons tend to thrive when their energy, fun and imagination is allowed to flourish in education and in work. They see rules as there to be broken or at least challenged! This can put them in conflict with authority.

When struggling or bored they’re even more likely to question authority and be disruptive or disengage completely. Get back on track by working in lively groups, on projects and competitive but fun tasks. 

Strengths

Improvements

In a team a Falcon will:

Ask questions, share your ideas, and speak up.

Cntribute creative and new ideas, and think about the whole project or task ahead.

Welcome, and critically assess, ideas from others that could improve your group’s chances of success. 

Be flexible and willing to adapt and change plans if the situation
requires it.

Things for Falcon work on:

Don’t interrupt others before they’ve finished. Encourage everyone to
contribute.

Explain your most imaginative ideas clearly in steps so others can
understand what you mean, don’t be just funny or provocative, show you are serious about the task.

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

Don’t always rely on ‘winging’ or ‘blagging’ it. A plan can be useful for the whole team.

Advice for Falcons

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

  • To calm down and be a bit boring and predictable sometimes.
  • To become excellent at something and stick with it, don’t be a ‘jack of all trades, master of none’.
  • To be aware of the effect of your actions on yourself and others.

Do you think this advice can help you?

Job and course ideas

As naturally impatient creatives, Falcons are drawn to courses and jobs where they can apply their imagination in a fast-paced environment. They enjoy becoming real experts in their chosen career and can thrive in many areas including media, performing, engineering, manufacturing, design, science, surveying, photography, sales, and computing. 

New and emerging careers can suit their interest in shaping the future so why not consider courses covering:

  • Ethical Hacking
  • Data Protection
  • Cyber Security
  • Content Creation
  • Entrepreneurship.

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:

  • Computer Games Developer
  • Robotics Engineer
  • Events Manager
  • Drama Teacher
  • Hotel Manager
  • Oceanographer
  • Tree Surgeon
  • UX Designer
  • Journalist
  • Web Designer
  • Cyber Intelligence Officer
  • Climate Scientist
  • Architect
  • Vlogger
  • Entertainer
  • Systems Analyst

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