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Meyers-Briggs is also incredibly easy to game if you know what they're looking for. Not as bad as those silly "ethics tests" some crappy entry-level jobs give (
by ashark 9y ago
Meyers-Briggs is also incredibly easy to game if you know what they're looking for. Not as bad as those silly "ethics tests" some crappy entry-level jobs give ("You see a coworker stealing merchandise. Do you a) punch them, b) tell a manager as soon as possible, c) join them in stealing, d) smoke a joint and forget about it?") but not much better.
Guessing you'd be able to nail what they wanted for office jobs by just picking the organized/responsible/social/intellectual options every time you could, in roughly that order of priority.
- mdekkers 9y agoI was once given a "modified" MB test for a CTO position at $international_firm and had to show up at a "specialist consulting firm" to take the test (husband/wife team working from their living room) - They were nice people, we sort-of connected, and I asked them outright what profile the client was looking for. They happily shared, and said the test cannot be rigged, we designed it, it is bulletproof. I aced it, and a subsequent two tests where they asked me to fill for different personalities. Panic all-round. I was offered the job, but declined - they put too much stock in this type of meaningless hocus-pocus, and barely asked me about my technical and organisational qualifications.
- ashark 9y agoAll I can figure with this stuff is that they're trying to weed out people too dumb and/or naive to effectively lie on something like this. Or those who won't work for a place that asks them to, as with you. They're definitely not filtering for the nominal target personality, and surely they know that.