The article looks at a study of 180 professionals which developed and tested a model linking proactive personality to career success. The study was conducted by Scott Seibert and Maria Kraimer from the University of Illinois at Chicago and J. Michael Crant from the University of Notre Dame. Specific behaviors and contextual factors that act as intervening mechanisms between personality and career progression were examined. The study was designed to determine how a proactive personality can shape career progression over time, helping researchers to understand the processes by which proactive people forge ahead in their careers. Crant, Seibert, and Kraimer sent questionnaires containing a well-known proactive personality scale to randomly chosen business and engineering alumni of a large university to procure data.