Find your SHAPE - Improve your relationships
What to know about hiring a Heart
Learn about Hearts
Hearts are people driven and fear of failure dominant.
They are good employees for work that requires caring for people or animals, social service, healing, empathy, listening to, and supporting people.
They are not as good in positions where discipline, making tough decisions, solitary hours, overtime, disciplining others, pressure, and high stress are presen
Possible Strengths
Possible Weaknesses
Active listening
Altruistic
Authenticity
Can get along with anyone
Caring
Client Relations
Collaboration
Consistent
Conversation skills
Customer service skills
Dedicated
Dependable
Effective Listener
Empathy
Fairness
Flexible
Follows directions well
Forgiveness
Good Communication Skills
Good manners
Gratitude
Has good work/life balance
Honest
Hope
Humanity
Integrity
Interpersonal Skills
Kindness
Listening skills
Loving
Mentoring
Modesty/Humility
Networking skills
Open-mindedness
Patience
Politeness
Responsible
Self Controlled
Self-regulation
Sensitivity
Social intelligence
Social skills
Sympathy
Team Player
Temperance
Tolerance
Trustworthy
Understanding
Allows emotions to show
Anxious
Bad at meeting deadlines
Difficulty asking questions
Disorganized
Does not like conflict
Does not like pressure
Doesn’t take risks
Dramatic
Easily discouraged
Emotional
Fearful
Hesitant
Lack of focus
Lacks confidence
Lazy
Multitasking
Not detail oriented
Not good at analyzing data
Not good at prioritizing
Not taking criticism well
Overwhelmed
Passive
People pleaser
Procrastination
Self critical
Shy/ not adept at public speaking
Slow
Spends too long on work
Takes things personally
Too sensitive
Too timid to give feedback
Unorganized
Careers for Hearts
Hearts are kind, caring, gentle people, who enjoy careers where they can serve and help other people. They don’t necessarily love leadership though and sometimes are happy being in the background where they can provide support, loyalty and service. They are very loyal employees and often stay at the same jobs for many years. They most want to feel included, wanted and appreciated at work. They also love helping other people and are happiest in a career where they can do that and make a difference.
Recommended Careers
Accounting
Cashiers
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors
Historian
Office
Acute Care Nurses
Adapted Physical Education Specialist
Adult Basic and Secondary Education
Ambulance dispatcher
Amusement and Recreation attendants
Animal Breeders
Animal Care
Animal Caregivers
Animal Trainers
Archivists
Art Therapist
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers
Audiologist
Camera Operator
Carpentry
Cashier
Claims Adjuster, Examiner
Clergy
Climatologists, weather scientists
Coder
Community and Social Service Specialist
Community education coordinator
Community Health Workers
Computer and Information Research
Construction Manager
Corporate social responsibility coordinator
Counselor
Counter Clerks
Court Clerks
Court Reporters
Credit Authorizers and Checkers
Credit Counselors
Critical care nurse
Crossing Guard
Customer Service Representative
Data entry
Daycare
Dietitians and Nutritionists
Dispatchers, Police, Fire, Ambulance
Education Administrator, elementary, secondary and post-secondary
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors
Executive assistant
File Clerks
Film and Video Editors
Funeral Attendant
Geographer
Hearing Aid Specialist
Historian
Hotel, Motel and Resort Desk Person
Legal Secretary
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
Maids and Housekeeping
Mail Clerks
Massage Therapist
Medical Records and Health Information Technicians
Medical Secretaries and Check in Desk
Membership coordinator in a museum
Nanny
Nurse
Nursery and Greenhouse Manager
Nursery worker
Occupational therapist
Office and Administrative worker
Outreach pastor
Patient support
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
Pet store workers
Plumber
Preschool Teacher
Primary teacher
Property, Real Estate Management
Psychiatric Nurses
Religious Worker
School administrator
School Psychologists
School Social Workers
Secretaries and Admin Assistants
Secretary
Social Worker
Speech and language therapist
Speech-Language Pathologists
Support worker
Teller
Ushers, Lobby Attendants and Ticket Takers
Veterinarians
Veterinary nurse
Welder
Woodworker
Word Processing and Typing