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Myers Briggs Personality Test – Put people in boxes – profile them

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Did you know the world the Myers-Briggs test is the most widely used for the testing of personality types. Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs came up with the test during the Second World War and their intention was to assist women who were getting into employment in industry for the first time to single out the occupations where they would fit in well. I thought they served:)

With the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, one can be classified according to four preferences. These four preferences include one’s degree of introversion or extraversion, whether one concentrates on information being received from their imagination or senses, whether one makes decisions based on emotion or careful thought and whether one is a perceiving or a judging person. Hence there are 16 different personality types.

Profiling of staff has its pros and cons. The good side of it is that it is relatively fast to implement since the same content is used regardless of job description. This fact alone also makes it relatively inexpensive. n the other hand, the fact that one assessment is used for a variety of job descriptions makes it too generic and it could miss out on specifics that may not be important in one job but which are critical in another.

Another criticism levelled against employee profiling is the fact that the benchmark profile is set based on employees who have already performed in the job role but when this is then used to judge a candidate who may not have had such particular experience, they may be locked out unfairly. Also being a high performer could be resulting from factors that the assessment does not take into account, thereby rendering the whole assessment useless unless of course other tools are brought into play.

That said profiling can be a very useful tool. When an organisation needs to implement an assessment method at short notice or when the position for which an assessment method is required for is highly mainstream, this type of profiling will be just the thing to help employers make their selection.

Doug is a ENFP

ENFPs are basically happy people. They may become unhappy when they are confined to strict schedules or mundane tasks:)

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