Career and personality profiling self-test quizzes can be found all over the Internet. AOL Jobs features a test based on choosing your favorite colors designed to measure career satisfaction.
Skimming the comments under the above-linked article, these stand out:
“SIMPLE MINDED TEST FOR SIMPLE MINDS—————-NOT EVEN CLOSE.”
“I also agree with the statement – what does this have to do with the ‘real’ world?”
“How totally ridiculous. The commentary is so general any combination would reach a majority of users (self-fulfilling prophecy). Try this; pick one side of the page. If you picked left it means you are warm, personable, stable. If you picked right it means you are stable, personable, warm. WOW!”
“This test needs to be specific. It’s too general. (For example)…I love the color red for my sofa, but I won’t ever buy red clothing because I hate the way I look in red.”
“I can’t believe someone actually got paid to write this rubbish or that I wasted my time reading such nonsense. This entire paradigm is as useless as the Myers-Briggs bullshit that was popular in the late 80s, early 90s…and when we took the test, many of us gave the complete opposite answer of what we felt on every fifth question. I often wonder how much money they wasted on such crap and if they ever found out the results were completely worthless given the phony answers we submitted.”
The problem with personality analysis self-tests is that they are too subjective and they can be gamed.
While I’m not entirely opposed to such evaluations, I caution anyone relying on these types of assessments exclusively.
It’s also essential to identify specific personality strengths and challenges; handwriting analysis effectively outlines authentic personality, far better than self-tests and quizzes.
The Life Purpose Package offers dynamic results, revealing your unique talents, and which parts of your personality require more focus. It allows you to save incredible amounts of time and money by finally being fully aware of what is right for you and what isn’t, in relation to your career and life purpose.
The Career Compatibility and Assistance Guide (first option on this page), included in the Life Purpose Package, is a valuable resource too.
It’s a good idea to employ several different types of personality and career path appraisals, and to get objective feedback from qualified professionals and those who know you well.
Copyright © 2012 Scott Petullo