Hi, my name is Bill Benoist and I am an I S F J. I also have an overall Emotional Intelligence
rating of 85. According to the Gallup StrengthsFinder. My number one strength
is connectedness. If you were to take a look at my profile for Entrepreneurialship,
my number one strength is risk-taking. And my number two strength is confidence. Probably not
a great combination if you're running a business, um, I might jump a little bit too soon at times.
My disc style is an S and according to the Via Survey of Character Strengths, my top strength
is Industrialists, Diligence and Perseverance. So yeah, you could probably say I'm a little
obsessive when it comes to personality testing. And maybe this is why a friend of mine reached
out to me this past week. She is also a career coach, and she wanted my thoughts, my opinion on
a new documentary on personality test team that is called persona the dark side of personality tests
and personality tests are not something that I've ever really thought about before.
I've always used them as just simply nothing more than self-awareness. I have never had to take
a personality test, uh, for employment purposes, but the more I started researching for this video,
the more I found that there's a lot of companies that are having applicants take personality
testing. It is a big thing out there. I think something like 80% of the fortune 500 companies
are actually doing this. Now, as I say, I'm very obsessive about personality tests, but
I also am not really in favor of companies using personality tests as one of the factors
as to whether to hire an individual or not a company is going to do what they are going to
do. So, the only thing that I think someone that is concerned about personality testing can do
is to really understand where they fall. And maybe something that you might want to consider
is taking a couple of the personality tests on your own, and just learning a little bit about you
And see where you fall, where, where you fall there. And so in the
Note section below, I'm going to put a link to a number of personality and assessment tests
that you can take at very low cost. If not for free, like for example, the via survey character
strengths is on the Penn state server. And what's really interesting about this completely free.
And it's been studied more by the scientific community than even the Myers-Briggs out there,
but I'm going to list some resources for a number of testing. You can go ahead,
and you can do them all like I did, or you can select some of them, but I really believe
knowledge is power. And if you know how you're falling, maybe it's going to make you feel a
little bit better. If you do face a personality test in an employment application. Again,
if it's something that you're worried about now, you may not be worried at all about this.
And that's great personally, I would not be worried about it. I'm not for personality testing,
as I mentioned for employment purposes, but I'm also not worried about one either. If you are
worried about them, there's also, if you Google search personality testing, you'll find a number
of videos on how to cheat these tests and how to pass these tests. Personally. I don't know
how you pass a personality to us. I think we all have personalities, but for some reason,
people have created a number of videos out there on how to pass the personality test.
So, as I mentioned, my name is Bill Benoist. I'm a certified professional career coach here
in Silicon Valley and also an ISF Jay and I upload career tips and strategies every
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