A sample question included "How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?" (answer below*). The MBTI is part of a myriad of workplace testing instruments used by employers to maximise employee performance in today's increasingly complex workplace.Ĭompanies like Google are notorious for stringent hiring tests, with their complex recruitment questions going viral as far back as 2009 when Business Insider journalist Nicholas Carlson published the headline "15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid". That is estimated to net the Myers-Briggs foundation more than $30 million dollars annually. Myers-Briggs licenses the test to psychologists around the world, who in turn become consultants to organisations. More than 80 per cent of Fortune 500 companies use the test within their organisations, with more than 50 million individuals having taken the test to date. That's a caution disregarded by other academics, corporations and individuals. It has led some researchers to speculate, the theory we all have an innate personality from birth, might not be true. Related articlesĪs early as 2006, the Consulting Psychology Journal reported that half of a group of volunteers retested five weeks after their initial evaluation, reported a different profile from their first. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator gauges a predisposition and assigns a personality type - such as 'responsible realist' or 'imaginative motivator' - to the user to help the employer better understand the strengths of a worker. He believed one of these four functions is dominant in each of us, most of the time. Sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. It was based on the work of psychiatrist Carl Jung, who speculated that humans experience the world from four primary perspectives. Myers-Briggs is one of the oldest tests that employees are being subject to, created by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers more than 70 years ago. It's also credited with creating workplace environments that discourage conflict and even determining where your boss may sit you. Nott says companies use Myers-Briggs for a number of practical applications within the workforce, including individual development, team building, conflict management, communication improvement, management training and more. Participants are ultimately assigned 1 of 16 workplace personality types, the goal according to Myers-Briggs Asia MD and Psychologist Cameron Nott is to "help individuals develop a greater sense of self-awareness, in terms of their strengths and blindspots".
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