Have you ever had to take a personality compatibility test for a prospective employer?
Are compatibility tests really important to the employment process?
While taking personality tests for a new job might be tedious, tests like the Myers Briggs
Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment can really help a company to see if you are the
right fit. Not only do companies benefit, but these tests can also help you figure out if
your personality and natural preferences will make it easy and comfortable to flourish in
a particular work environment.
Employers will be impressed if you know and understand your personality type. Not
only for the benefit of employers, but the results of your assessment will give you
some much-needed insight on yourself. If you are made aware of your type, you can
then come to understand how you can adjust to make yourself work in any workplace
environment.
No personality type is an indicator that you won’t succeed. Rather, your personality type
is an indicator of how natural things may come to you and how much you may be within
or outside your comfort range.
There are sixteen possible Myers-Briggs® personality types which help to illuminate your
natural preferences, referred to by four abbreviated letters.
Preferences include:
- Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)
- Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)
- Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
- Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)
Recognizing how your personality reacts to the culture of a specific workplace can guide
you in the right direction — the direction where you can be the most successful and
satisfied at your job.
Have you ever taken a personality test for career development? Was it useful?
Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate.com, the world’s only search engine optimizing resume builder. Resunate has recently partnered with Myers-Briggs® to give users the option to take the assessment online and feed their results into its engine, enabling Resunate to provide personal insight into how well you fit to any job. The verified Myers-Briggs® assessment will be available to Resunate users starting January 2012. You can find Mona and Resunate on Facebook and Twitter.
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