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The assessment provides detailed descriptions of views along multiple dimensions of an individual’s personality, including:

Adam Grant • PrinciplesYou From Ray Dalio

Foundation for the Study of Personality in History,

Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Understandably, YouScience strives to make the experience and the resulting “strengths profile” as positive as possible. The post-assessment report doesn’t harp on what kids are not good at and also doesn’t tell anybody that the best fit for them is an unskilled, low-wage job. The 500 careers in its database all require at least some post-high scho... See more

Education Next • First, Know Thyself. Then, Pick a Career Path

used the Gallup Organization’s Web-based StrengthsFinder Instrument to pinpoint their five signature strengths,

Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses

By far the most extensively examined—and firmly established—system for grouping personality traits is the framework known as the Big Five. (Other systems, such as the Myers-Briggs test—or MBTI, as it is also known—are less widely used in academic psychology.) The Big Five traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neur

Sam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

Traditionally, high school students have taken assessments that are designed to identify strengths and talents and point to how those might map onto promising careers, but these have notable shortcomings. A new generation of assessments promises a better approach. Instead of assuming that individuals already know themselves, it puts them through a ... See more

Education Next • First, Know Thyself. Then, Pick a Career Path

GROSS: We’re certainly not saying that horsepower and IQ don’t matter. They certainly do, but there is a clearing bar at which point, for most roles, I think people tend to overvalue it and don’t realize the logarithmic nature of the curve and assume it’s linear. But I actually think, earlier than many people realize, you want to switch to caring a... See more

Nate Meyvis • Nate Meyvis

For a good brief introduction to the Big Five, check out Sanjay Srivastava’s Web site: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sanjay/bigfive.html. For a more advanced treatment, see John, O. P., & Srivastava, S. (1999). The Big Five Trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of pe

Sam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

Every one of the students has the same thick book before her, A Primer for Rorschach Interpretation.

Annie Murphy Paul • The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves