Profession graphologist

Graphologists analyse written or printed materials in order to draw conclusions and evidence about traits, personality, abilities and authorship of the writer. They interpret letter forms, the fashion of writing, and patterns in the writing.

Personality Type

• Investigative / Conventional
• Artistic / Social

Knowledge

• Theories of personality

  Theoretical conceptions of personality, such as psychodynamic theory, humanistic theory or behaviorism.

• Psychology

  The human behaviour and performance with individual differences in ability, personality, interests, learning, and motivation.

• Writing techniques

  The different techniques to write a story such as the descriptive, persuasive, first person and other techniques.

• Psychological theories

  The historical development of counselling and psychological theories, as well as the perspectives, applications, and interviewing and counselling strategies.

• Behavioural science

  The investigation and analysis of subject behaviour through regulated and lifelike observations and disciplined scientific experiments.

• Handwriting analysis

  Types of approaches to analysing handwriting in order to identify a person and their personality.

Skills

• Inspect data

  Analyse, transform and model data in order to discover useful information and to support decision-making.

• Report test findings

  Report test results with a focus on findings and recommendations, differentiating results by levels of severity. Include relevant information from the test plan and outline the test methodologies, using metrics, tables, and visual methods to clarify where needed.

• Apply knowledge of human behaviour

  Practice principles related to group behaviour, trends in society, and influence of societal dynamics.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB