Getting Started


This is a part from our study how to recognize people traits at the first sight. This guide is made to help HRs or Project Lead have a quick view of potential candidates and/or new teammates personality. Working with nature is more productive than working against it.

No personality type is inherently better or more desirable than another in general. This reference is applied to the tech industry only.

MBTI reveals how we tend to interact/think. It’s not that Thinkers don’t feel or Feelers don’t think, but only that they differ in the degree. The same for other preferences (I/E, S/N, P/J)

The Basic


The MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) is a framework designed to identify a person's personality type, strengths, and preferences**.** Each type have 4 preferences among 8 available preferences.

The Four Preferences

Introverted — Extroverted

Low energy vs. High energy

I — E

How we interact

Sensing — Intuition

Abstract vs. Details, facts

S — N

How we gather information

Thinking — Feeling

Logical vs. Emotional

T — F

How we make decision

Perceiving — Judging

Open minded — Decisive

P — J

How we deal with outer world

Reference


Questions for screening

Engineering

Sensing, Thinking and Judging. A little N — Intuition is okay. (S + T + J)


Design

Intuition, Feeling and Judging (N + F + J)


Sales — Marketing

Extraverted and Feeling (E + F)


People Ops

Intuition and Feeling (N + F)