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Job Interviews For Dummies®, 4th Edition
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Job Interviews For Dummies®, 4th Edition

by Joyce Lain Kennedy
December 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
339 pages
7h 40m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 7

Your Close-Up: Personality Tests

In This Chapter

arrow Understanding why personality tests matter

arrow Uncovering surprising facts about personality tests

arrow 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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