Chapter 7
Your Close-Up: Personality Tests
In This Chapter
Understanding why personality tests matter
Uncovering surprising facts about personality tests
Doing your best with proven test tips
The online world offers all kinds of unscientific ways for you to plumb your depth — from your taste in music to your choice in colors. But flip that coin to the employment world, and personality testing becomes a serious assessment tool that helps decide who gets hired and who gets promoted.
This chapter is a serious close-up on genuine, nonfake, Real Deal assessments that have become rites of passage in today’s workplace.
Wendell Williams, PhD, Managing Director of ScientificSelection.com, is one of the world’s leading employment-assessment authorities. Dr. Williams is my guide through the psychometric minefield of employment testing.
Personality Testing Means Business
In a nutshell, employers are trying to anticipate why you do what you do at work. That’s the reason you may be required to take a personality test before being granted an interview or offered a job.
An integrity test may or may not be part of the personality assessment. Here’s what each measures:
Employment personality tests ...
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