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Out of boredom (and because I forgot the last version I took) I took another online version.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/hr...

That pretty much matches what I remember the last result being. It's not very good though. I mean, almost all the questions are subjective in nature and can have very different answers depending on the situation.

I've gotta get out of this hotel room. I think I might just drive home. Buffalo sucks.

I think the entire point of using the term making out is because it is so vague. IF you said no, they could figure that your willing to over look potentially wrong doing by other employees. If you said define making out, it could show that your willing to over look the actions that you agree of or the rules you disagree with. If you said something along the order of "if they were just holding hands and kissing, no, if it was more then that probably (or yes)", if could show that you know enough to know when someone crosses a line and are willing to inform them.

Anyways, the question and answer isn't really important by itself. It means nothing without the other meaningless questions popped inside of other questions at random. You can see a trend that reinforces behavioral traits and the idea is to subconsciously extract it. For example, the making out question could have been followed by have you even told on your siblings or a school mate for doing something wrong. IF so, on a scale of one to ten with one being the most severe and 10 the least, point to the number referencing the least severe thing wrong and the most severe thing they did wrong. But they won't ask that right after the "making out" question, they will attempt to distract you from it altogether with other questions and then work it back in. The idea is to look for trends. Someone who always tells on people for the least bit wrong will tend to be an authoritarian who will bother management as well as disrupte the working environment. Or at least the potential it there. The person who will never complain will be too passive and watch everything fall apart right in front of him which isn't desirable either. But the people in between, as gauged by the other questions may actually be desirable even if tendencies to either extreme exist. Try taking a personality test by answering honestly then do it again while trying to manipulate the answers to be the person you think they will see you as. You will most likely be surprised at what you think the right answers really say about you.

BTW, there are other personality test sites out there. I'm not affiliated with the one I posted nor am I with any of them. It's just the first one I saw from a google search and I recognized the names of the assignment the test attempts to associate with. I don't think there are any specific right and wrong answers to it. It just attempts to show how others will see you.

Who has the MBTI type which more closely represents the needs and wants of this position?

If you've studied programming and have a deep interest in economics/business then you might be better for this position. A lot of programmers go this way. They get into programming initially, until they learn they want more. You seem reasonably entrepreneurial, so you might fit this build. Generally these people have an MBTI type of ENTJ. Where is real programmers and science types are usually INTJ. But this doesn't mean you can't be out of the norm and not work well.

Do the Jung Typology Test and find out more about yourself at Portrait of an ENTJ and here The Portrait of the FieldMarshal Rational

Overall for a business you need to know more about business/economics (and maybe some politics for fun?), not finance, not technology. Whom ever has the best skill set and want for this, should have the position.

If you have left it to asking for people on /. for whether or not, perhaps you don't want it that much, or don't have the forcefulness for that kind of position.

Although remember what happened with Paul Allen and always stay firm with what's in your best needs! After all that's what business is, interacting entities all striving for what's best for them, and coming to a medium.

Try this test to see which one you are:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

(based on the Jung - Myers-Briggs typological approach to personality)

I think it's mainly due to vague or loaded questions like, "do you feel involved when watching TV soaps?". A person could answer "no", because they don't watch TV soaps but that might falsely suggest a lack of empathy.

Another example is, "do you feel more comfortable sticking to conventional ways?". If I'm deciding what cryptographic algorithms to use, my answer is "hell yes!" However, for other things, it really depends on how much time I have, how interested I am in whatever is being done, what the risks of failure are, etc. In fast, I find that my answer to most of the questions is "it depends on the circumstances", but since that's not an option, my answers vary depending on what happens to come to mind at the time.

So anyway, I don't think it's really wise to put too much faith in online personality tests. YMMV.

One way to increase your self-awareness is to take a standard personality test. There are several such tests, but my favorite is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

Determine your personality here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

I'm an ENTJ (coincidentally, the same as the author of the article).

There used to be a much better Perl-based test out there based on the book, Please Understand Me by David Kiersey and Marilyn Bates, but I found this test out there. (You can go to Kiersey's self-promotional site too, but it looks like they use some form of communist registration/info-gathering technique before they let you take the test.)

Introversion/Extraversion is simply one of many factors - in this organizational scheme, Jungian personality types adapted by Isabel Briggs Myers.

In trying to understand my own psyche i've been doing alot of reasearch on the net.. I am quite certain that myers-briggs/jung typologies are pretty much dead on.. i've had so many 'aha' epiphany moments reading about my personality type (intj), it's made my work life, personal life, and everything in between so much better. Having an understanding of your strengths and weaknesses is definately a good thing, especially in this day and age. Learning to exploit yourself, is almost as good as exploiting others ;)

http://www.humanmetrics.com has a great (free) typology test, but you have to remember to be dead honest with yourself when answering the questions (take your time!) once you have your personality type, the net makes it easy to 'find who you are'.

I think this packer/mapper distinction has similarity with the N/S distinction (iNtuitive/Sensing) made on the Myers-Briggs test.

Ulrik

Deciding what to do isn't a decision, its a matter of effort. Foolish people decide,intelligent find the right answer.

1. Take the Strong Interest Inventory Exam

2. Take the Myers Briggs

3. Read What Color is Your Parachute

4. Use your power for good and not for evil.

I would dare to guess that the writer of this article is quite likely to be an INFP personality according to the Myers-Briggs personality type classification system.