#008: Person-Environment Fit, The Big Five, Holland's RIASEC Model & Career Lessons

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Heidi De Langhe

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I’m Heidi, evidence-based Coach & Trainer. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights - empowering you to make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace. In each episode, I explore a work-related topic together with a national or international expert, or someone with firsthand experience. Sometimes there is a deep-dive into a theme across several episodes, other times it’s a stand-alone interview with an expert or practitioner. Episodes are primarily in English.

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#008: Person-Environment Fit, The Big Five, Holland's RIASEC Model & Career Lessons - Professor Filip De Fruyt

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#008: Person-Environment Fit, The Big Five, Holland's RIASEC Model & Career Lessons - Professor Filip De Fruyt

I had the privilege of speaking with Professor Filip De Fruyt, who brings over 35 years of expertise in academic research and international business consultancy.

🎓 Filip is a Senior Full Professor of Differential Psychology and Personality Assessment at Ghent University and serves as International Relationships Officer at Low Lands Assessment Systems.

This episode is a deep dive into Person-Environment Fit (P-EFit) - and why it’s central to understanding careers, performance, and employee retention.

💡 Key insights from our conversation:
🔹 For over three decades, Filip has studied the intersection of how people work and perform (Big Five personality model) and what they do (Holland’s RIASEC vocational interest model).
🔹 Fit can be supplementary or complementary — a crucial consideration when hiring.
🔹 Fit is dynamic, not static: your role at 28 may no longer be the right fit at 32.
🔹 Organisations often over-focus on performance, but should also align employees’ learning and development with their vocational interests - critical in today's fast-changing job market.

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Resources Referenced:

- Low Lands Assessment Systems: https://lowlandsassessmentsystems.com/en

- Lola-test: https://lowlandsassessmentsystems.com/en/explore-your-passion- The Big Five or Five-Factor Model: dimensions of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness

- John Holland's theory of vocational interests, the "RIASECmodel": interest domains of Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional

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Contact Filip De Fruyt:

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filip-de-fruyt/

- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aqL24tgAAAAJ&hl=en

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