Sunday, October 19, 2014

Personality Quizzes

In class, we took the online Myer-Briggs Personality Type test and the Holland Codes work personality quiz.  My results were:

Myers-Briggs

E
N
F
P
Letter
78
38
25
67
Percentages

Description of ENFP
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.

Holland Codes

Realistic: 10
Investigative: 7
Artistic: 8
Social: 14 *highest
Enterprising: 12
Conventional: 4 *lowest
Your Holland Codes are as follows: 
SER

When we did the Myers Briggs test in class, it was difficult for me to read all the questions. When I looked at the description of my results, ENTJ, some of it described me, but I was surprised especially by the part about enjoying long-term planning and goal setting and being well read.  Many of these questions are hard to answer because the situations are so general.  So I decided to retake the test having someone else read the questions to me.  This time my result was ENFP, which matches me much better.  I think my second set of results are more accurate because I likely misread/misunderstood many of the questions reading them on my own.

My Hollard results show that I am very strong in Social, Enterprising and Realistic.  Artistic and Investigative are pretty high too, and Conventional is clearly my lowest area.  This shows that I am mostly well-rounded except for the conventional area, which has to do with rules, regulation, self-control and structure.  This is not surprising because I don’t mind a lack of structure.  I am comfortable working and dealing with the “grey area”, and I don’t black and white situations because I often see good reasons for exceptions.  

1 comment:

  1. Great idea to redo that test. As I said in class, these free on-line tests are not scientific, I use them to get you to begin to think about who you are and how your personality will fit in with a future career/job. I want you to know that certain career paths/job fit more with one personality type than another. I hope each of you find a career that fits with your personality instead of you having to fit your personality into a career/job.

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