Myers-Briggs...

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

For almost 12 years I administered the MBTI along with the Strong Interest Inventory (a specific job interest inventory) to hundreds of clients back in the Clinton years when all the federal welfare reforms were rolled out...during the TANF program rollout. I worked as a mental health counselor as an adjunct to case management services for long-term welfare recipients who were also in the HUD Section 8 housing program. The MBTI and Strong were used to have a coordinated basis for helping the clients self-direct themselves into appropriate jobs or job training programs, where they were likely to have the best chance of success in getting off of public assisstance, and through increases in income from employment, eventually disqualifying themselves from their Section 8 certificate or voucher.

Regarding your closing paragraph...I'm unsure of your point. Are you talking about somebody having someone else complete the instrument for them? Why would anybody bother. No competent human resources manager would be hiring anybody based on their MBTI profile.

You have way more experience with the testing, As of this thread I was unaware of it.

My point on the taking of the test. I think when one is taking the test especially one with choices from most likely to least likely IIRC at least 5 one could be lying to themselves or picking the answer most comfortable. No real world problems with choices and actions I found.

Have someone that knows you fill it out or better yet many who do, as to what they think about you would be more weighted. Filling it out as to the person they see not the one you see.



Barney