I had to write this post in response to an article in The Independent titled “Teachers should face tough new tests to weed out incompetents”
It appears that none of the groups mentioned in the article understand the basics of psychometric profiling. Perhaps this is a symptom of the growing obsession of testing within the school [...]

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The PeopleMaps “How to Series” Podcast is here!
The podcast consists of a series of interviews with Anne Ellis, Director of Psychology at PeopleMaps - and we’ve created it to help you transform your business through psychological profiling.
Anne knows more about profiling than any of us, so we were really keen to get her to reveal [...]

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You might have noticed the PeopleMaps Compass on your Personality Reports for Employers. The Compass provides a visual illustration of a personality’s behaviour in particular circumstances. We have created it to show you at a glance the likely behaviour of the person whose report you are reading. Not all of the personality topics have an [...]

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Do you Facebook?
PeopleMaps does and we even have our own Facebook application: Psychologist in a Box has fans from all over the world: New York, Glasgow, London, Australia, South Africa, Turkey, Greece and Indonesia.
This is a great application. I loved doing this kind of thing at work so it is great that this application has [...]

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History of MBTI
Isabel Briggs Myers built upon the work her mother Katherine Briggs started around the time of the first world war. They were both pioneers in their time and built a respectable and enduring product with a world wide reputation. In the 21st Century MBTI is still a name to be reckoned with and [...]

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The Origins of MBTI
Katherine Cooke married Lyman Briggs in the period of World War 1. She had an interest in typology through studying biography and once she discovered Jung she accepted his system then explored and elaborated on it. Lyman Briggs was a scientist who had a major role in modern aviation and atomic energy. [...]

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Compare PeopleMaps to other profilers such as Myers Briggs (MBTI), Thomas International and SHL?
You might be familiar with these popular personality profiling systems. The major difference between the PeopleMaps instrument and all these systems is that they are meant to be delivered by a qualified person who can interpret the meaning for the respondent. [...]

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Peoplemaps is based on the psychology of Dr C.G. Jung - the Swiss psychologist who assesses that people could be identified by their ‘attitude’ to the outside world, which would either be extravert or introvert - and more often than not, somewhere in the middle of these two attitudes.
The ‘attitudes’ that are measured eg, intraversion [...]

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