Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. Hiring. You know, when you are first learning the Myers-Briggs system, often, one of the first places that

people learn this is in the workplace.

They learn it through maybe the hiring process or through management.

A lot of times there's consulting firms that are hired to come in and teach employees and

employers this system to help with managing people, managing relationships in the office, in the office environment.

And this is something I think a lot of people in the corporate world, even in the nonprofit sectors,

in government, Myers-Brigs has used a lot to help with HR and

staffing and today we want to talk about is it a good idea regardless of the legality or the ethics of it, is it a

functionally good idea? Is it something that you would want to do because it works

well to use the Myers-Brigs system of typology to discover and place and

higher talent for a business nonprofit or government agency.

I think that the reason why Myers Briggs has become so much a part

of the social unconscious or as much as it has I mean it's not like a it's not in every

home it's not a name or a word or a system that we're constantly referencing, but it's enough in the public unconscious so that, you know, out of 100 people, you're going to have a certain percentage that are like, yeah I know Myers Briggs regardless of whether or not they know their type and a big reason is because of its infiltration into the business world

HR departments like you mentioned consulting firms it became sort of a

a cashier thing to do for a while and somehow the Myers-Brick system really got its

its leg in there and in fact we were talking to Beatrice Chestnut

when she came up to record an any gram program.

She said that people in the any gram community

are very envious of people in the Myers-Brigs community who have like you know really found a

foothold in the business community in order to spread the system more and more and so what's

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