I've got mixed feelings about personality tests, in that I love categories and systematization, and I believe the whole process is psuedoscientific bullshit of the highest order, one step removed from searching for portents in sheep entrails. Are you seriously telling me that a survey of white Americans made during WW2 contains the 16 archetypical personalities?


Can't find my good Myers-Briggs meme showing all the types as the kind of malicious person they are, so have a meme of MBTI Wojaks

Strengths Finders is a little more developed than the MBTI, based on the Strengths Psychology approach of Don Clifton. There are 34 qualities which a person can have, and based on answer a 200 question survey of the form "Would you rather X or Y", the test figures out how to order your strengths. Not surprisingly, I scored a bunch of intellectual and analytical traits, but I also scored very high on relationships, like because I answered that I'd rather be with a small group of friends rather in any other social situation. This may have skewed the results.

The reason why this is three stars is that for your $40 you get a short book with a brief description of each strength and how they approach different workplace situations, and a one use code to take the Gallup Strength Finder test. I "borrowed" this book from my mom, who got it as part of an executive search for a non-profit, and it was moderately interesting, but is it worth your $40? An ordinary person doesn't need this, a good manager already knows it, and a bad manager is going to ignore it.