At some point in your life, you have probably taken a personality test of some point. Schools often give personality tests to help their students decide what they want to do with their lives. Churches will sometimes give personality tests to assess a person’s spiritual gifts. Businesses will give personality tests to help access how to utilize the skill sets they have available. You have probably heard of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which classifies each person into 16 personality types based on their preferences.
Personality tests can be useful in a mentoring situation. No personality test is completely accurate, but they can be a good starting point from which a mentor and mentee can get to know more about each other. Personality tests can also help to identify areas the mentee needs to work on. The demands of the writing career make it such that the extravert tends to succeed where the introvert does not. The judging personality may have advantages and disadvantages that the perceiving personality does not. Using his or her knowledge of the mentee’s personality, the mentor can then help to identify traits that the mentee can take advantage of as well as identify traits they he must work to overcome.
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