The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, based on the work of Jung is the system I intend to explore on this blog.
Forget Myers-Briggs: all you need is Facebook | Internet Psychologist | Graham Jones
Personality tests are an everyday part of the recruitment world.
Massive consultancy firms exist crammed with psychologists to analyze the data and help companies ensure that they employ the best possible mix of personalities.
New research has shown that a Facebook stream is a reliable method of indicating personality based on the Big Five theory.
If someone’s Facebook timeline includes lots of “smilies” for instance, it shows that they have high levels of extroversion and people who post frequent status updates have high levels of openness.
Conscientiousness is reflected in lots of questions and neuroticism is shown by the rate of negative comments an individual posts.
The researchers discovered that simple checks of Facebook profiles are accurate indications of personality types as assessed by sophisticated questionnaires.
It all suggests that those personality tests use by human resources specialists may well be a thing of the past for many companies.
If you want to know what kind of person you are employing, all you need to do is check out their Facebook profile.
Many companies already do that when recruiting new staff, but largely as a “back-up” to the expensive psychological tests that they have used.
Now, there is evidence which suggests that checking Facebook alone is as good as those expensive occupational psychology profiles.
Forget Myers-Briggs: all you need is Facebook | Internet Psychologist | Graham Jones
Forget Personality Tests: all you need is Facebook
25th April 2012
Personality tests are an everyday part of the recruitment world.
Massive consultancy firms exist crammed with psychologists to analyze the data and help companies ensure that they employ the best possible mix of personalities.
It turns out that just checking someone’s Facebook stream of activity is a reliable indicator of their personality type, as assessed by a theory known as “the Big Five”.
The Big Five personality indicators are: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neuroticism and openness.
There are other methods of assessing personality, such as the popular
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, based on the work of Jung, but the “Big Five” indicators are nowadays generally accepted as the basis of personality.
New research has shown that a Facebook stream is a reliable method of indicating personality based on the Big Five theory.
If someone’s Facebook timeline includes lots of “smilies” for instance, it shows that they have high levels of extroversion and people who post frequent status updates have high levels of openness.
Conscientiousness is reflected in lots of questions and neuroticism is shown by the rate of negative comments an individual posts.
The researchers discovered that simple checks of Facebook profiles are accurate indications of personality types as assessed by sophisticated questionnaires.
It all suggests that those personality tests use by human resources specialists may well be a thing of the past for many companies.
If you want to know what kind of person you are employing, all you need to do is check out their Facebook profile.
Many companies already do that when recruiting new staff, but largely as a “back-up” to the expensive psychological tests that they have used.
Now, there is evidence which suggests that checking Facebook alone is as good as those expensive occupational psychology profiles.
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