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Yours is PEST.
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13 Reasons Why The Myers-Briggs Test Is Absolute Nonsense
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Yours is PEST.
About 2 million people take it annually...$20 million off it each year.
So about $10 a person. It is about as significant to American society as "Are You Being Served?" reruns. I have done hiring advisement, and I have never met anyone who takes this seriously.
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So about $10 a person. It is about as significant to American society as "Are You Being Served?" reruns. I have done hiring advisement, and I have never met anyone who takes this seriously.
Well we agree for once, so why do so many companies use it? Concart thinks it's invaluable but then so what!
As for Are You Being Served I'm amazed that was shown in the US!
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Well we agree for once, so why do so many companies use it?
2 million people taking the test is not a lot of people, so I would argue with the "so many" part. But I will answer your question in two examples.
Example One:
There are a huge number of decisions that modern managers have to make that they have no reason to make one way or another. It is the scariest thing. There are two great applicants, both named Mike, with such similar entry level resumes(CVs) that they could be interchangeable. They both did great in school, but who knows what they will be like in the real world. After thinking about it for a few days, you cannot tell the Mikes apart anymore, and are further from deciding which one to hire than you were before. You just need something to tell you which one to hire. You have stopped caring if it is something good or bad, just something.
Example Two:
You have budgeted in an extra four hours of training time, but have nothing more to train people with. The normal go to of building a tower of giant blocks labeled with good employee attributes has gotten multiple complaints for being stupid. (I did not make that up, there are actually Fortune 500 companies doing that.) So you give them a stupid test that you claim is giving them insight into themselves, but is really just burning four hours of time.
As for Are You Being Served I'm amazed that was shown in the US!
I am one of the few Americans to have ever seen it. It is not a significant factor in American culture.
cancel2 2022
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2 million people taking the test is not a lot of people, so I would argue with the "so many" part. But I will answer your question in two examples.
Example One:
There are a huge number of decisions that modern managers have to make that they have no reason to make one way or another. It is the scariest thing. There are two great applicants, both named Mike, with such similar entry level resumes(CVs) that they could be interchangeable. They both did great in school, but who knows what they will be like in the real world. After thinking about it for a few days, you cannot tell the Mikes apart anymore, and are further from deciding which one to hire than you were before. You just need something to tell you which one to hire. You have stopped caring if it is something good or bad, just something.
Example Two:
You have budgeted in an extra four hours of training time, but have nothing more to train people with. The normal go to of building a tower of giant blocks labeled with good employee attributes has gotten multiple complaints for being stupid. (I did not make that up, there are actually Fortune 500 companies doing that.) So you give them a stupid test that you claim is giving them insight into themselves, but is really just burning four hours of time.
I am one of the few Americans to have ever seen it. It is not a significant factor in American culture.
How companies use the Myers-Briggs system to evaluate employees
To what extent do businesses still use the Myers-Briggs system today?
It’s really prolific. So the most recent statistics indicate that 1 in every 5 Fortune 1,000 companies uses it in the hiring process. Eighty-nine of the Fortune 100 companies use it either in the hiring process, or in the workplace for team-building exercises, leadership coaching, executive talent management, things like that. The marketplace for workplace personality assessments is upwards of $2 billion. Many of the companies that publish and administer these indicators are private, so it’s hard to know exactly what the market share of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is, but in the late ‘90s, it was estimated that their share would be about 25 to 30 percent of that market.
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/30/myers-briggs-system-evaluate-employees/