Against the typing of job seekers

[GOD]

Here's an interesting article (as I don't see the data to back it up) pretty much showing the holes there are in the application of the Myers Briggs test.

The question arises whether this type of test should be allowed to be used for candidate selection, it could be potentially as prejudicial as the now illegal practice of age discrimination...

http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMW...velop/mbti.pdf

[Thulefoth]

My reflex is to resent employers ... trying to get more out of the relationship with a candidate than they have an ethical right to.

On the other hand, I did high-tech military service, and we were tested semi-continuously. We accepted it, knew & shared our scores, and in fact would have reacted with hostility to anyone who showed up without testing.

If I were on an experimental oil rig in the Arctic Ocean, I would want everyone tested, and all results posted publicly.

Military pilots know quite minutely what each others' test-subtleties are ... and again, generally wouldn't have it any other way.

If I am a philanthropist doing mission work in Darfur, Somalia, Nicaragua, Nigeria ... if the lead organization isn't doing serious testing, I don't think they're serious.

Where there is danger and a need for high 'known' performance-capability, it is easy to see the justification. Usually, the handling of select-personnel test-info is very good.

But once we accept this context, it would seem to weaken the case that 'everyday' businesses should basically be presumed guilt of abusing tests & employees, until proven innocent.

Tough call...

[GOD]

Yes, you’re probably right...

I could imagine how careful you'd need to be if you were cooped up in capsule on a twenty year voyage to Mars..

Bit like getting married.. Need a psych test for that as well...

And flatmates (roommates in the US)... that could work wonders as a screening device...

It’s a slippery slope I tell you...

Don't agree with employers though, I had one done on me a while ago, and some very young HR person was trying to psych my results (when I'd answered them the way I "thought" they wanted).. Seems that if I answered them normally I'd have been the perfect fit... just shows you how stupid it is; when undertaken, and the results mattering to the candidate.

[Louie]

Personally, if I was hiring? I would like to know their personality type, but it would be a part of the due diligence..then there is always the; "lets do a three months trial"-we are happy with you, you are happy with us? Yes/No=goodo, stay-go.

I would love to know the type though, it fascinates me, would I hold it to the be all end all, no. People can be very adaptive and train themselves-despite stuff. Never give up.