Would you believe that your personality, even your social media one, can have an impact on your career? This is what Professor Paul X. McCarthy and his team sought to prove when they created Ribit. Professor McCarthy theorizes that a student’s personality would impact...
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Hiring Graduates Based on Personality Skills
HR professionals within organizations have given personality assessments to potential employees for many years. I was asked to take a personality assessment for a pharmaceutical sales job in 1987. The changes I have noticed since that time include the type and...
Marketing Based on Personality Type
QuantMethod is a site that offers ways to help companies market to customers based upon understanding their personality type. The Quant Method assessment puts people into 1 out of 4 categories. According to their site, these types include: Thinker – “The...
The Reluctant Extravert
The Myers-Briggs MBTI assessment claims it can help determine whether a person is an introvert or an extravert. According to the official Myers-Briggs site, people know they are an extravert if they think things like, “I like getting my energy from active...
Do Job Candidates Lie on Personality Tests?
Companies often use personality tests like the Myers Briggs MBTI, emotional intelligence EQ-i, or others like the DISC to determine if potential employees’ personalities are a good fit for jobs. I noticed a conversation about whether companies should use...
New Study Investigated if Shoes Reveal Personality Type
They say you can’t judge a book from its cover but can you judge someone’s personality by his or her shoes? That is something that researchers considered in a study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. “Participants provided photographs...
10 Most Important Steps to Obtain Dream Job
I often speak to students and career groups about how to obtain a dream job or reinvent a career. I have listed some of the most important points from my lectures, with appropriate links to articles, to explain the process. Be sure to click on the links...
Spot the Fake Smile: Fun Test That May Surprise You
Have you ever wondered if that smile someone flashed you is sincere? You might want to check out some research on the BBC Science site. “Their experiment is designed to test whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one. It has 20...
Are Women Making Teams Smarter?
Harvard Business Review recently published an article about how having women on a team makes the team smarter. Although they didn’t find a correlation between the collective intelligence of the group and the IQ of individuals within that group, they did find that if...
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