Personality tests help employers screen out desirable candidates in accordance to the skill requirement. It assists companies to make better choices while recruiting employees with specific qualities that can be enhanced as per the job roles & responsibilities.
Benefits of Personality tests
There are limitations to self-awareness and sometimes our brain needs to be stimulated for an adequate response. There are things each one of us intuitively ‘know how to do’ but may not know if we have that ability to perform that task. A face-to-face interview often limits the potential for being creative, imaginative and rational. Candidates undergoing personality tests are tested on their qualities including Determination, persistence and the willingness.
Projective techniques are a mix of tools and techniques that is based on evolutionary adaptive processes and behavioural economics. Projective techniques are typically divided into five groups and can each be applied as required. It includes Associative techniques, Completion techniques, Constructive techniques, Choice/ordering techniques and Expressive techniques. All these techniques consists of perceptions, impressions, emotions and heuristics to help analyse a candidates inner conflicts, habits, social behaviour, social influences, thinking style etc.
It goes beyond just communicating to what is asked and helps the candidate present themselves in a more transparent, logical and sensible sense. The test involves projective techniques, that help reveal candidates emotions and internal conflicts that may not appear easily while appearing for a competency based interview.
Helps Determine Leadership and Extraversion Qualities
A personality test helps determine qualities like Leadership and Extraversion in an employee or a new candidate. Both of these personality traits play an important role in a business environment. Remember, a leader is more than just a boss and leadership comes naturally to a person’s overall behaviour. How a person manages and be creative can determine how good a leader he can be. Additionally, his motivational spirit also adds to his personality and helps employers bring in better leadership qualities to their organisation workflow.
Similarly, for a sales profile, employers look at candidates who are extrovert and are confident communicators. Ever seen a sales person who does not talk! Qualities associated with sales profile need to include being cheerfulness, assertiveness, gregariousness and highly confident in the product he is representing. For employers, it is important that the candidates they select have the desired qualities that make sense in lieu to the job roles they are assigned with. Personality tests can really be helpful in choosing, recruiting and selecting the perfect employee. This will be a good future decision for the organisation that can further use the employee for other senior roles and enhance these attributes.
While cost of infrastructure, technology and even managing businesses may have gone down, the cost of recruitment & selection has seen a dramatic increase in recent years. The human resource development team spends a large amount of company’s expenditure and efforts on hiring employees and yet most of the employees chosen are not even committed to the company for long or not up to the required job preferences. Cengrow knows how important objective and quantifiable information can be for analysing an individual’s potential and therefore offers businesses psychometric inventories comprising of personality tests, questionnaire type inventories, tests of intelligence, analytical ability tests, competency based interview, general aptitude tests etc. Cengrow has the expertise to design and develop customized inventories, keeping in view cultural dynamics and client specific needs.