Are Personality Assessments Effective Hiring Tools?

Cultural fit is critical to maintaining an engaged, productive and satisfied workforce. To ensure that match, businesses often use personality assessments to gauge a candidate's degree of cultural fit in the hopes it will translate into loyalty and lower turnover. But are these assessments accurate and how much do they really reveal?

Not All Assessments Are Created Equal

Probably the best-known personality assessment is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI, developed in the 1940s based