Quality Progress - American Society for Quality

Section 801
17382 Re: Re: SAAS in your career
Coury Ferguson
Dec-17-03
Let me put my two-cents in on the use of Personality Tests. One of my favorite people
here on the ASQ Board told me that the personality test should be used to develop further
questioning of the skills and personality during a face-to-face interview, and should only
be used for that purpose. However, many companies use these tests to screen personnel
for employment. I have taken numerous personality tests and have been accused of
selecting the answer on what I think they want to here or see. These tests are suppose to
eliminate the chance of this. I lost a position based upon a personality test. The
personality test in my opinion IS NOT FAIR, because some people think most people are
honest until that honesty has been broken, and the majority of people in this world are not
out to get the company or people. As for Wes's comment: "What article are we talking
about?"
Coury Ferguson
17381 Re: SAAS in your career
Wesley Bucey
Dec-16-03
From Wes Bucey, Quality Manager
OK, Ed. What article is this in reference to? Most of us readily agree Myers-Briggs is a
personality test. Folks can even Google the term "Myers-Briggs" to take an on-line
version to see where they fall or intersect in the four major categories of personality.
Look also for the term "Keirsey Temperament Sorter." In view of the type of test, would
you agree that personality type is a valid factor in how well someone can perform a
particular task day in and day out? I can envision some folks whose personality would
make it impossible for them to sit at a bench day after day staring at an optical
comparator, but that doesn't mean that they wouldn't score super-high on the pure skill of
operating an optical comparator. Let's have some dialog on the topic.
-Wes Bucey
17380 SAAS in your career
Edward Harris
Dec-16-03
I don't think that the Myers-Briggs is a good example of a skills assessment test; it's more
of a personality-type assessment.