Is Your Personality Right for Your Job?
Increasingly, potential employers care about who you are, not just what you can do.
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Companies have moved past trying to create a workforce with the right skills. Now they also want employees with the right personalities. It has become common for employers to put prospective workers through personality tests such as the one popularized by the Myers & Briggs Foundation. The idea is that certain characteristics lend themselves to certain types of work and that a straightforward interview can’t identify them in a job candidate as well as one of these tests.