Paul Flowers: The Appliance Of Science

Those of us outside the board of The Co-operative Bank can only guess at Paul Flowers’s results. Maybe he was INFP — introverted, intuitive, feeling, perceptive; or maybe the crystal-meth smoking Methodist who almost brought the bank to its knees was more ENFP — the E for the sort of extrovert who boasted of a “two-day drug-fuelled gay orgy”.

We do know one thing though: the results were impressive, because it emerged this week that his lack of expertise in finance was ignored by recruiters because of his performance in psychometric tests.

Psychologists say that the ubiquity of these tests in financial services recruiting, in particular the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, which assigns everyone a four-letter code and which one psychologist compared to the Victorian practice of phrenology, is “extremely vexing”, and not just because these tests don’t screen for drugs and financial incompetence.

City recruiters said that in many first-round interviews a Myers-Briggs test, which was created in the 1960s by two amateur psychologists who had read the work of Jung, is standard...

Times.

No idea.

Anyone?

You can take the nebulous Myers-Briggs Test here.

Apparently, I'm an INFP - introverted, a bit meh on all the rest - Wow!

Fagburn seriously doubts this was the main determinant of Paul Flowers getting the Co-op gig.
Or going to a "two-day drug-fuelled gay orgy".
Though if there's an entry test for them...