Mary Anne Kennedy leads another “Job Seekers” presentation with the Princeton Public Library and the Professional Services Group of Mercer County in “Using Myers-Briggs to Focus Your Job Search,” an event on how to optimize these test results for occupational success.
Kennedy, a global senior HR executive, is the founder and principal of her own consulting company, MAKHR Consulting, LLC. As per PPL materials, she will be speaking about “how the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which focuses on how people perceive the world and make decisions, can be a useful tool in a job search” on Friday, February 10 from 9:45 a.m. to noon in the library’s Community Room.
The event will encourage attendees to take the Jung Typology Test™ at the Humanmetrics website, humanmetrics.com/personality, which draws from the “typological approach to personality” of both Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers.
“All those who are planning to attend the February 10th Mercer County PSG meeting are invited to take the assessment. Following the assessment, you’ll see results displayed showing preference[s] along with a percentage for each preference. We’ll discuss the meaning of each letter and percentage and how this relates to career preferences,” library staff adds via email.
Kennedy received her bachelor’s in social science from Thomas Edison State University in Trenton before working in several HR environments, such as Bristol-Myers Squibb. She started MAKHR about 15 years ago, while according to her LinkedIn, she has been a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Administrator since receiving the certification in March 2001.
Developed by mother-daughter duo Katharine Briggs and Myers in the mid-1900s, the MBTI is composed of 16 total personality types varying across the spectrums of introversion or extroversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving.
From these come types such as ISTJ, or “The Logistician,” which describes those who fall under the category of “practical and fact-minded individuals.”
In the years since, these self-reporting questionnaires have grown in popularity in the corporate world, with companies using them to find the best fit among prospective employees, sometimes even before the candidate starts the job.
Kennedy, as per her LinkedIn, is also the author of “Finding The Right Job; A Step By Step Approach” (2012), a book that “provides readers with the opportunity to discover their passion and seek out the job that they were meant to do through a strategic approach.”
The speaker explains in the book’s summary on Amazon that “a successful job search is a full time job for those in transition,” adding that “differentiating oneself can be the lever that lands that person the dream job.”
Regardless of whether job applicants can identify certain traits within themselves to be mindful of during the application process, looking at oneself introspectively might inspire a new position befitting of your unique personality.
For information or possible accessibility accommodations, visit the event’s page on the PPL website via princetonlibrary.libnet.info/events.
