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the twelve signs of the zodiac." 16
    missal in terms of an inadequate "fit." We believe that there is a So why is the corporate world, which we think of as so fix-unique slot for each person, the tests announce—even ated on empirical, in fact, quantifiable, measures of achieve-though we may fail to find it in your particular case.
    ment like the "bottom line," so attached to these meaningless My job, though, is to find a "fit," however wobbly, in any in-personality tests? One attraction must be that the tests lend a stitutional structure that will have me. And with this simple superficial rationality to the matching of people with jobs. No task in mind, the personality tests seem even more mysterious. If I one, after all, wants a sadistic personnel director or a morbidly am a public relations person by training and experience, what shy publicist; and if you failed at one job, it is probably com-good will it do me to discover that my personality is better suited forting to be told that it was simply not a good "fit" for your into a career as an embalmer? Presumably there are extroverted ner nature. As Paul writes:
    engineers and introverted realtors, who nevertheless manage to The administration of personality tests is frequently presented as a gesture get the job done. The peculiar emphasis on "personality," as opposed of corporate goodwill, a generous acknowledgement of employees'
    to experience and skills, looms like a red flag, but I have no way of uniqueness. Under this banner of respect for individuality, organizations knowing yet what the warning's about.
    are able to shift responsibility for employee satisfaction onto that MY LONG-THREATENED one-hour make-up session with Kim-obligatory culprit, "fit." There's no bad worker and no bad workplace, 16 Paul, Cult of Personality, pp. 133-34.
    17 Ibid., p. 130.

    berly finally arrives, and the reason for this ghastly intrusion In this case, definitely drained, but I am loath to disown the good into my time is that I blew off a prior scheduled session out of news of my E-ness. She proceeds through the letters, pausing sheer sullenness and inability to simulate the cheerfulness that a in between to let me acknowledge the truth of them. "N is for successful Kimberly interaction requires. We start with the intuitive, as opposed to S, which is a kind of detail person. The results of the Myers-Briggs test. "You're an ENTJ," she an-challenge, for an N, is that they are kind of disorganized." Ah yes, nounces. "I was so excited when I saw it!"
    that's me. T is for "thinker as opposed to feeling," which is very
    "Remember the two overlapping circles?" she quizzes good although she herself tests on the feeling side, and J means I like me. I acknowledge that I do. One was the world, one was me.
    "closure on things." The danger there is that I might come to
    "Well," she explains, "the personality is part of you." "As opposed to
    "premature closure," and she can help me slow down a little. I the world?"
    suspect this is a veiled reference to my recent insistence on a time
    "Yes! Each letter signifies something, and together you get a frame for our coaching process, or at least some estimate of when I kind of fruit salad! The E—that's for extrovert. You know that would be released into the world as a viable candidate—a demand word?"
    she had weaseled out of.
    "Mmm."
    "Now for the really good news," she tells me. "ENTJ is also called
    "It means that you get your energy external to yourself."
    the commandant. They usually rise to the highest level in She too is an E, and being E is "good news for the job search, organizations. You are a natural leader!"
    because introverts have a lot of trouble getting out there."
    "So I should apply for CEO jobs?"
    I cannot think of how to respond, which seems to occasion a
    "Well no, but you can tell people you have really strong rare moment of self-doubt in Kimberly. "Do you agree about the leadership qualities. Would you be comfortable with that?"
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