3. Aim to measure aspects of your mental ability,
aptitude or your personality
Used as part of the recruitment or selection process
Provides employers with a method of selecting the
most suitable job applicants or candidates for
promotion
Used by 80% of Fortune 500 and 75% of Times
Top 100 companies
5. • How well you work with other people
• How well you handle stress
• Whether you will be able to cope with the intellectual
demands of the job
• Your personality, preferences and abilities
• Analyze your emotional or psychological stability
• Best match of individual to occupation and working
environment
8. Personality Tests
You will be presented with statements describing various ways of feeling or acting
and asked to answer each one on a 2 point, 5 point or 7 point scale. The number of
questions you are expected to answer varies from about 50 to 200, depending on the
duration of the test.
1. I prefer to avoid conflict.
A) True B) False
2. I enjoy parties and other social occasions.
A) strongly disagree B) disagree C) neutrals D) agree E) strongly agree
3. Work is the most important thing in my life.
A) very strongly disagree B) strongly disagrees C) disagree D) neutral E) agree
F)strongly agree G) very strongly agree
•
10. Some of the popular
psychometric tests are:
16 PF
MBTI
OPQ32
Thomas Personal Profiling System
Gordon’s Personal Profile Inventory
Rorschach Ink-Blot Test
FIRO-B
Picture Frustration Test
Thematic Apperception Tests (TAT)
11. Basis of these tests:
Five personality traits:
• Openness
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism
12. Five Factor Scoring:
-ve +ve
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousn
ess
Neuroticism
Openness to
experience
13. 16 Personality Factor model
(16PF)
Developed in the 1940s and refined in the
60s
Attempts to define the basic underlying
personality
Questionnaire based
Analysis using 16 personality factors
14. Factor Descriptors
A Warmth Reserved Outgoing
Less
B Reasoning More Intelligent
Intelligent
Emotional Affected by Emotionally
C
Stability feelings stable
E Dominance Humble Assertive
The 16 factors with their word
F Liveliness Sober Happy-go-lucky descriptors of each scale
Rule
G Expedient Conscientious
Consciousness
H Social Boldness Shy Venturesome
Tough-
I Sensitivity Tender-minded
minded
L Vigilance Trusting Suspicious
M Abstractedness Practical Imaginative
Straightforwa
N Privateness Shrewd
rd
O Apprehension Self-Assured Apprehensive
Openness to
Q1 Conservative Experimenting
Change
Group-
Q2 Self-Reliance Self-sufficient
dependent
Q3 Perfectionism Self-conflict Self-control
Q4 Tension Relaxed Tense
15. Colour Test
• Select one colour
• Pink
• Blue
• Red
• Yellow
• Green
• Black
16. • Pink - People who choose pink have the gentle side of human nature, health,
abundance and youth.
• Blue -People who prefer blue usually dislike confrontations and play the role of
the diplomat in order to avoid continued conflict. They are good orators, capable
of giving a good speech.
• Red- A person who prefers red is one who enjoys life to the fullest. These
individuals usually live according to their own rules and often do not follow the
traditional norms. They avoid boring people and always try to experience the
maximum fun and excitement from any endeavor.
• Green – People who choose green are capable of creating a balance between
positive and negative emotions. They are capable of seeing both sides of an
issue, have a strong moral sense of right and wrong, and tend to be idealistic.
• Black -People who like black hold things inside and do not want to be touched.
they are hard-working fixers who zero in on the essence of any problem. They
tenaciously love to find the mistakes and faults of others like detectives or puzzle
fans.
• Yellow -People who choose yellow are very business minded and like to be
thought of as educated. They use their minds to achieve their goals and as a
result, love games and are particularly good at chess.
