You are the hiring manager of a large firm if you are like...

You are the hiring manager of a large firm. If you are like most employers who are seeking new employees, you are likely looking for which combination of Big Five traits? low conscientiousness, low neuroticism, and low agreeableness high conscientiousness, low neuroticism, and high agreeableness high conscientiousness, high neuroticism, and low agreeableness high conscientiousness, high neuroticism, and high agreeableness

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00:01 All right, here we're asked which personality traits are associated with higher pay.

00:07 Well, this really, really, really depends, right? so high openness can lead to higher pay because you're higher in creativity, right? so like think about the person who can creatively come up with a solution to a problem that it's unique, right? so high openness can be a factor, but it's like high risk, high reward.

00:32 There are many people who are high in openness who don't have higher pay.

00:36 So it's high risk and high reward.

00:38 So the one that is most highly associated besides just high iq is high conscientiousness, especially in management positions.

00:48 High conscientiousness means that i'm going to do, i'm going to get done what i say i'm going to get done.

00:53 And i'm gonna work as hard as i can to make sure it gets done high conscientiousness that's going to lead to higher pay now the next one which is a little bit more surprising is low agreeableness and this is because you know you're gonna say i am not going to do the work so especially if you're low in politeness and low and compassion but especially if you're lower in compassion you're gonna say look i don't care i'm not doing the job unless i get paid that's when you're being selfish, right? you're looking out for me.

01:25 I'm looking out for myself and the resources should go to me.

01:28 That's low agreeableness.

01:30 So high conscientiousness and low agreeableness tend to bring higher pay.

01:40 But since that's not an option here, we're gonna scratch that one out.

01:43 And we're going to say that it's not low agreeableness, but it's gonna be low neuroticism.

01:49 Low neuroticism, which means that neuroticism, which means you're not very sensitive to negative emotion, right? you're going to be kind of even...

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