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With the standard of person-job matching transferring from “skill fit” to “deep trait alignment”, using MBTI as a personality assessment tool in company recruitment has become more and more popular. This paper takes an overall review on the application of MBTI personality theory in personnel recruitment. The paper reviews related literature in past 20 years and finds out practical value of MBTI in recruitment (such as career interest matching and team configuration) and its limitations (including controversies on reliability and validity and subjectivity of results).
With the standard of person-job matching transferring from “skill fit” to “deep trait alignment”, using MBTI as a personality assessment tool in company recruitment has become more and more popular. This paper takes an overall review on the application of MBTI personality theory in personnel recruitment. The paper reviews related literature in past 20 years and finds out practical value of MBTI in career interest matching, incentive mechanism optimization and team configuration and its limitations (including controversies on reliability and validity and subjectivity of results). Based on the new economy situation and current application issues like interpretation bias of results, applicant faking and the risk of labeling, this paper constructs an integrated model including three stages, screening, assessment and configuration and proposes “Multi-stage Recruitment Screening Model Assisted by MBTI”, clarifying the role and weight of MBTI in different recruitment stages.
This paper reviews the application of MBTI in recruitment objectively and comments on its limitations objectively (including controversies on reliability and validity and subjectivity of results). Based on current application issues like interpretation bias of results, applicant faking and the risk of labeling, this paper constructs an integrated model including three stages, screening, assessment and configuration and proposes “Multi-stage Recruitment Screening Model Assisted by MBTI”, clarifying the role and weight of MBTI in different recruitment stages. This paper provides theoretical reference for corporate practice. For job seekers, this paper reviews objectively the limitations of MBTI and guides job seekers to view the results of assessment rationally and not to have restricted career choice because of “labeling”. This paper provides theoretical reference for career planning.
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