There are many aspects like looks, intelligence, personality, dress sense etc help define in understanding a person out of which personality is considered most important because other aspects change frequently while personality usually does not change as often. There are different personality traits associated with each one of us. Some people are talkative while some are quiet. Some people may be very organized while others could be carefree. It is these different personality traits that land us in different jobs that we do. In order to judge our personality traits experts have devised different tests and assessment methods.
             The most primitive method of testing a personality can be found in astrology, both Chinese and Western, using the date and hour of birth of a person. Depending on planets, angles and house positions at birth astrologers have divided personalities into twelve divergent main types or signs. Apart from birth signs Enneagram is another ancient method that uses questionnaire to differentiate people into 9 different personality types. Most psychological methods involve the use of a questionnaire to determine personality traits. Organizations today use personality assessment not only for hiring employees but they also do it to understand their consumers better.
             Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs devised this methods based on the work of Carl Jung. Over the years this method has emerged as the widely used test for personality assessment. "The basic test takes twenty minutes, and at the end you are presented with a precise, multidimensional summary of your personality-your type might be INTJ or ESFP, or some other combination. Two and a half million Americans a year take the Myers-Briggs. Eighty-nine companies out of the Fortune 100 make use of it, for things like hiring or training sessions to help employees "understand" themselves or their colleagues. Annie Murphy Paul says that at the eminent consult...