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Personality Test

I first started thinking about after reading Duncan's blog. Turns out I'm an ENFJ - a "Teacher". Nice

A couple of my employees ran through the same test coming up with different trait summaries that seemed to define them really well. After reading a couple, I thought "Damn - that explains a lot". This got me thinking - I wonder if anyone has correlated these personality types with roles and responsibilities on a software development project. Do you need to have a couple ENTJ's to drive the project, sprinkled with a few masterminds, some IJNT's in the mix? I would be interested in matching these personality types with roles and responsibilities within an organization and on teams....Might make hiring easier " Sorry, ENTJ's need not to apply" type of thing.

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  • Wal-mart tried to do what you want to do (correlate the results of psychological tests to job roles). One of their employees sued them for it and they had to pay him an assload of money.



    Setting aside the fact that Myers-Briggs is totally unscientific (it wasn't written by a psychologist, contrary to popular belief, and real psychologists have problems with it because it doesn't measure what it purports to measure), it's far from clear how useful a psychological test is going to be in the hands of a non-psychologist.



    Just my two cents.

  • just testing the wrong things

  • well i am a student and i have this project where i am to develop an expert system that would match a personality with the role or the job. it will help the managers for hiring new employees. i have not yet started the project but i am searching to find some questions that will help in analysing a personality in terms of careers. so can u please refer me to that test and i can give u the system.:)

    thanks

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