Five Types Of People Who Will Fail In Finance

There are certain types of people who will fail in the business world. While many of these types of people will not get through the hiring process, I'm sure you all have plenty of examples of coworkers who have had strange personality disorders that affected their performance. These people may have the intelligence required to do the job, but they have other issues that will cause them to fail. Here is my list, feel free to add anything I may have missed:

The Over-Seller
This person is the worst when you have to interact with clients. Imagine you are selling an idea, product, etc to a client or group of clients and you have them sold......but this person won't stop talking. Many times you will have a client need some time to consider their interest in a product or idea, but this over-seller is calling them several times a day to continuously attempt to sell them on it. Coming on too strong can creep out a client just like it can creep out a girl at the bar. On that topic, do not let this person be a wingman for you because he will still be telling the girl how awesome you are while she has her tongue down your throat.

The Procrastinator
In college it's OK if you want to smoke then go watch Harold and Kumar with your buddies instead of get your paper/problem set done. You are smart enough to get it done right before class and you are paying the school so if you don't do your work the only person it affects is you. In the workplace if you don't get your work done it can affect your superiors, your colleagues, and even those working under you. When you procrastinate you do just enough to get it done. You need to put in extra effort and extra work to achieve a successful career.

The Zombie
My friend calls this type of person the Zombie. They walk around their workplace or college campus with their head down looking at the floor. They are always quiet. The positives are that they also exceptionally smart and accomplish a great deal of work, but they are a total pushover. They never voice an opinion, never state an interesting idea or question, and you would never know they are there in the room with you. It may be a social skills problem, it may be that this person is super-shy, but it won't work for them long term.

The Overly-Pushy Person
This person knows that they are smart. In HS/College they minimized other people's roles in their group project/presentations in order to do as much work by themselves as possible. They don't trust anyone else to accomplish tasks so they are always looking over people's shoulders, poking into other people's business, and just generally annoying. They always want to have the last word in a discussion/meeting and always make sure to say everything they want to say. While a bit of "pushyness" is required so you don't become a doormat, this person goes too far.

The F**kup
This person always f**ks up. They are nice, carry themselves well, and are not annoying in any way. A lot of the time you like this person, but they are just a bit naive and for some reason always make mistakes. You could even say they are unlucky. Maybe they are a bit apathetic, but for whatever reason it is you can't continuously make small mistakes and expect to be successful.