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Free online Meyers-Briggs personality test - 2 minutes to take, a life time
to fathom
- The Meyers-Briggs personality test is used quite
often by companies to gauge whether a candidate would be a good fit for
a particular job, with regards to his or her personaility. A good
example would be that introverts (who tend to get drained of their
energy when interacting for long times with a lot of people) may not be
good fits for customer-facing jobs.
- I've taken this particular online test many
times over the years and the results have been consistent. It's just 72
yes/no questions, and the result is displayed as a set of 4 letters
which are abbreviations. Each letter represents your personal
preference, with a strong preference indicated by a high percentage, and
a weak preference by a very low or close to zero percentage. For
example, my personality type is INFJ (Introvert, iNtuitive, Feeling,
Judging) with a very high eprcentage in the intuitive (87+% usually).
The web site has a lot of explanation what each set of four letters
represents. For example, the INFJ type is also somtimes called "The
Counselor".
- Link:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
Free online language translation - when your search gets you to a foreign
language web page
- There's a wealth of information on the web
that's in a foreign language. Sometimes, it's also very impressive when
you can write a sentence or two in a foreign language to a business
contact or friend in another country. These links have online
translation tools, some you just copy and paste an foreign language text
to, and hit the button to translate into English, OR type in your
English text then translate to another language.
- You can also point to the URL of an entire web
page and have it translated.
- Google's search results' pages also can
detect a hit is in a foregin language and usually show an option: "Translate
this page to English"
- Warning: language translation is an art and
not a science that can easily be fathomed by computers. Be forewarned
that the translations probably should NOT be used in formal settings, as
the chances of them being accurate are remote at best. e.g. "I love the
smell of the pork roast your mother made." may be translated to "I love
that your mother makes a smell like a burning pig."
- Link:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com - good
- Link:
http://www.babylon.com - better
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