Personality Tests
This article covers meaning, importance & example of Personality Tests from HRM perspective.
What is Personality Tests?
Personality tests are techniques or methods with certain preset questions to determine a person's certain abilities pertaining to his/her personality. Personality tests can determine various aspects like temperament, emotional response, socialability, stability etc. These personality tests can be used to sketch out certain personality attributes of a person which can help in many aspects.
Importance of Personality Tests
These days many employers use such personality tests during recruitment or during employee evaluation & training and development. There are many tests some are projective like the ink blot test. Some tests are not projective are more question model oriented like MMPI, Guilford-Zimmerman, Myer Brigges type indicator (MBTI).
Different types of Personality Tests are:
1. 16 PF Personality Test
2. Jungian Personality Typology
3. Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
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Examples of Personality Tests
Example is a person wants to become a social worker, such tests could check the degree to which a person can be social. In case of armed forces, mental & emotional stability of the person can be tested. For the post of a CEO, the personality test would check the stress management, time management, patience etc of the individual.
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