Comments - Do Pre-employment Personality Tests Work? - RecruitingBlogs2024-03-28T11:29:29Zhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=502551%3ABlogPost%3A1194481&xn_auth=noThere’s no right or wrong per…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-05-12:502551:Comment:11953432011-05-12T03:58:27.593ZRichard Stephenhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/RichardStephen
<p>There’s no right or wrong personality style but understanding how a person likes to act is going to provide brilliant insight in to whether they are suitable for a particular environment….The accountant who is chatty may annoy all the other 50 quiet and introverted accountants in the firm. The quiet CEO will get lost by the noise of their overbearing senior leadership team…or the accountant firm happens to be full of extroverts who are sociable and friendly…the CEO is surrounded by equally…</p>
<p>There’s no right or wrong personality style but understanding how a person likes to act is going to provide brilliant insight in to whether they are suitable for a particular environment….The accountant who is chatty may annoy all the other 50 quiet and introverted accountants in the firm. The quiet CEO will get lost by the noise of their overbearing senior leadership team…or the accountant firm happens to be full of extroverts who are sociable and friendly…the CEO is surrounded by equally quiet or respectful people who gel well together. You don’t know unless you ask them – through a personality questionnaire.</p>
<p>It’s about the gut feeling ok with science! Hopefully science backs up people intuitions. But ask someone’s gut to stand up in a court of law and they will be all about the process and scientific method and rigour of the tools used.</p>
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<p> </p> Tim,
While I agree with the…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2011-05-10:502551:Comment:11944912011-05-10T20:50:32.262ZValentino Martinezhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/ValentinoMartinez
<p>Tim,</p>
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<p>While I agree with the questionable value of "Personality" tests & related testing, and the points you make--I must disagree with the image you have selected to portray a Tester of Personalities, because the picture you've chosen to use here is misleading. It seems to be displaying a person holding a vile of some kind of liquid, chemical, diluted blood--who knows, but it certainly is not a good rendition of what testing for a personality would look like. To that…</p>
<p>Tim,</p>
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<p>While I agree with the questionable value of "Personality" tests & related testing, and the points you make--I must disagree with the image you have selected to portray a Tester of Personalities, because the picture you've chosen to use here is misleading. It seems to be displaying a person holding a vile of some kind of liquid, chemical, diluted blood--who knows, but it certainly is not a good rendition of what testing for a personality would look like. To that end, please consider using the picture I'm entering for that purpose.</p>
<p>Happy to be of service and you're quite welcome.<a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1442317680?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1442317680?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>