Personality Tests

Online Career Tests and the Definition of Career Personality

Personality Tests are being used more as companies and organizations compete to recruit the most appropriate new employees. Despite the fact that many candidates abhor filling in these career questionnaires, the prospective employers are using Personality Tests or Psychometric Questionnaires to produce the sort of meaningful personal profile that will help them to get the right person. By this they are attempting to use personality psychology and job tests to understand the individual's personality and job aptitude.

This means that if you have not already experienced a career test, you are increasingly likely to do so.

One thing you must remember when looking for a new job - and keep this in mind when asked to do a test - the most important attribute in a new employee is the ability to fit into the organization. So what they want is someone who in many ways is like they are.

This page will help you sort out what Personality Tests are, which ones you might expect to come up against and what to do so you pass the test first time.

You are probably familiar with some of the names of the most popular career tests, psychometric questionnaires and assessments so you will recognize these names:

Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ)
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
16PF (Sixteen Personality Factors)
Personal Style Indicator (PSI)
Personal Profile Analysis (PPA)
McQuaig Word Survey
People Maps Questionnaire
and many others

As a Career Coach and Consultant, I have used many of these Personality Tests with my clients and I will give you my own personal opinion and insights which I hope will help you.

People Maps

People Maps provide one of the most useful questionnaires from the point of view of the job seeker. Because you can get a free report, you may find out as much as you need without spending any money on expensive Personality Tests reports.

These are some of the areas you can find out about:

Career Planner Report

Your career plan is important to you, specific to you and should therefore only be about you. Your Career Planner report is unique to your personality, it is not generic information. Your report will help you to identify what you need to make you happy at work and how to achieve it. Your Career Planner report includes the following sections:

Your Psychological profile

Management and co-workers
Your positive work experiences
Duties and responsibilities
Your negative work experiences
The work community
Deciding what you want
Evaluating career options
Playing to your strengths
What�s stopping you

Minimising weaknesses
Campaign tools you will need
Winning your chosen career
How to find that job
Preferred organisational culture

CVs & Interviews Report

A psychometric profile will help you to identify your personal strengths and weaknesses. Learn how to include them effectively in your CV and use this information to prepare for and excel at your next interview.

The PeopleMaps CVs & Interviews report gives you practice in advance of an interview using questions that employers may come up with based on the results of a psychometric test process. Your CVs and Interviews report contains:

Your personality profile
What to include and emphasise in your CV
How to take control of the interview
Questions to ask at the interview in relation to your personality
What to promote and what to avoid at the interview
Sample interview questions and answers about you in terms of -

as an employee
as a manager
working in teams
as a communicator
as a decision maker
as an organiser
your personal motivation
your personal development

your influencing skills
your sociability
how you react to pressure
Plus advice on how to complete personality tests.

Ideal Job Report

Everyone is looking for that elusive ideal job, PeopleMaps can help. PeopleMaps matches your personality profile results with our database of hundreds of jobs categories to help you choose what�s right for you. Your Ideal Job report contains the following sections:

The kind of job you would love and why

The kind of job you would hate and why
You as an employee
You as a manager
Your ideal boss
Working for yourself
You as a communicator
About your existing job
A list of job titles with descriptions that you would love
A list of job titles you should avoid

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