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Has Our Obsession With Personality Tests Gone Too Far?

Your Myers-Briggs type could be the reason you don’t get hired.

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Victoria Christie
February 24, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 15 minutes

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Anyone can be a hard worker or a team player—but if you’re an ENTJ and an Enneagram 1? You might as well be hired on the spot, you natural-born leader, you. 😉 Personality tests aren’t just reserved for finding out which Disney Channel heartthrob has a crush on you in a J-14 magazine circa 2007 (POV: you got Mitchel Musso when you just wanted Zac Efron 😤).

Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are using personality-based assessments to determine whether or not a potential candidate would be the right fit for the job and the company culture. But is reducing a complex human to their astrological Big Three or their Myers-Briggs type really the secret to hiring success? 🤔

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