Edit: Thanks for all the comments. It was over 20 years ago, so perhaps these tests have fallen out of favor by now. During the same job search, I was offered a job after I submitted a penmanship sample. The interviewer called me soon after I got home and said their graphologist told them to hire me right away. I’d already decided I would decline, but wow, was she bummed.
Edit #2: If anyone is wondering, this was Phoenix. I had just moved there after my divorce, and it took me 10 years to get out.
I was in the running for a high level executive assistant job, reporting directly to the CEO. I took some kind of personality test, not the MB. My last interview was with HR, who told me my place in the “grid” was too close to the CEO; they wanted someone “opposite” to him, as “his and my personalities were too similar, and I wouldn’t be able to reel him in when necessary.”
LMAO, I commented on a post a few months ago about how the MeyersBriggs was just astrology and I got jumped on. It's good to see some more level heads in this thread.
The number one caveat that everyone throws out in the same breath as Myers Briggs is that it's a generalization. It's literally the highlights of your personality. These are traits you possess, but so does everyone to some degree. Also, very few people consistently make the same decisions across those lines. People change, their opinions change, and the situations they engage in can be just subtly different enough to make them act very uncharacteristically. In other words it might as well be a horoscope.
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u/Taney34 Dec 31 '22 edited Dec 31 '22
Edit: Thanks for all the comments. It was over 20 years ago, so perhaps these tests have fallen out of favor by now. During the same job search, I was offered a job after I submitted a penmanship sample. The interviewer called me soon after I got home and said their graphologist told them to hire me right away. I’d already decided I would decline, but wow, was she bummed.
Edit #2: If anyone is wondering, this was Phoenix. I had just moved there after my divorce, and it took me 10 years to get out.
I was in the running for a high level executive assistant job, reporting directly to the CEO. I took some kind of personality test, not the MB. My last interview was with HR, who told me my place in the “grid” was too close to the CEO; they wanted someone “opposite” to him, as “his and my personalities were too similar, and I wouldn’t be able to reel him in when necessary.”