[Jare]

There are many facets to personality, some of which (like curiosity) will relate to technical skills (acquired by finding interesting things to learn). But you will also see technical skills acquired by non-personality reasons (like plain old work and academic experience), and you will also see personality traits (like arrogance) that will have very little to do with the technical skills you are exploring. If you rely too much in linking the two in your interview, you will probably reach incomplete and biased conclusions about the candidate.

However, you are correct in that there are correlations between them that you can use to guide the interview:

- breadth of technical knowledge -> curiosity

- depth of knowledge on a topic -> focus

- length of experience on a topic -> patience

- sources of knowledge -> self-guidance

- etc.