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You're a Lion!

Looks like you're a Lion, along with about 7% 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.

Gregarious

Flexible

Friendly

Lions are very sociable cats. They enjoy being with their families and friends and usually have an active social life. Lions are generous, friendly, and great communicators so they are good at knowing what’s going on.

As natural performers, they like to join in with people and have bundles of enthusiasm, making them popular team members, their fun and zest for life can be contagious. They are usually the life and soul of a party - if there isn’t a party, they’ll create one!

They view life as full of adventures and experiences to try out and enjoy, shunning routine and conflict, until they are exhausted and must rest.

Natural roles for lions

Characteristics

Lions thrive when they can bring energy, fun and excitement to their studies. They enjoy active, snappy content, clear directions and examples, projects and a chance to perform.

The fewer rules to follow the better for lion student and the adults around them. When struggling or bored they’re likely to be benignly disruptive or disengage completely.

Lions get back on track by working in lively groups, on projects and competitive but fun tasks.

Advice for lions

We asked older Lions what advice they’d send back to their teenage self to make sure they were happy and successful:

  • stay focused and complete the routine tasks
  • don't take on other people’s problems as yours to solve
  • remember not all people can be trusted
  • don't rush important decisions

Do you think their advice can help you?

Job and course ideas

For career happiness big cats like usually need action and excitement. They prefer variety in their workplace as well as their work tasks. Their worst fear is being bored at work (and outside of work).

Work including emergency services, transport, hospitality, retail, busy manufacturing and engineering locations or providing complex services to people fulfil their wanderlust.

Careers likely to increase in the next ten years to prevent boredom include:

  • Cyber Security
  • Ethical Hacker
  • Drone Pilot
  • Data Broker
  • 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:

  • Paramedic
  • Estate Agent
  • Social Worker
  • Hotel Manager
  • Tourist Guide
  • TV or Film Camera Operator
  • Family Mediator
  • Housing Officer
  • Physiotherapist
  • Bar Staff
  • Visitor Attraction Manager
  • Zookeeper
  • Shop fitter

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