The problem with including the MBTI on your resume has nothing to do with its accuracy, precision, or scientific basis. It's about relevance.
Flip the problem around: If your interviewer asked you for your MBTI type, would you think that was a good sign? Is that the kind of company that you want to work for, the kind that spends valuable interview time quizzing you about being an INTP? Let me venture to guess that the answer is "no". So why provide such detail?
(If the answer is "but I would never want to work for someone who doesn't know, and care, that I identify as an INTP", then I withdraw my observation. Good luck to you.)
My more general advice is: A resume isn't a dossier that summarizes one's entire life. You're not trying to adopt a child. You're trying to score a six-month gig. Focus, focus, focus.
> Flip the problem around: If your interviewer asked you for your MBTI type, would you think that was a good sign?
No, that would not be a good sign, point taken, although I'm not sure it's that bad when you mention it as an applicant. The relevance for me was describing what kind of guy I think I am (somewhat of an introvert), but maybe I should downplay it or leave it out completely.
The risk I see with hiring someone who lists their MBTI on their CV so prominently is that one day I'm going to ask them to do something, or work with someone, or communicate in a certain way about something, and they'll claim they can't or won't, based on that.
Flip the problem around: If your interviewer asked you for your MBTI type, would you think that was a good sign? Is that the kind of company that you want to work for, the kind that spends valuable interview time quizzing you about being an INTP? Let me venture to guess that the answer is "no". So why provide such detail?
(If the answer is "but I would never want to work for someone who doesn't know, and care, that I identify as an INTP", then I withdraw my observation. Good luck to you.)
My more general advice is: A resume isn't a dossier that summarizes one's entire life. You're not trying to adopt a child. You're trying to score a six-month gig. Focus, focus, focus.