Thursday, May 17, 2012

Personality Assessment Tools and Its Role in Hiring Process

By Symon Santos


Hiring process and retaining competent workers entail lots of complexities and majority of popular firms are aware of it. For the purpose of lessening complexities, most of the companies are taking advantage in the benefits that Personality Testing Tools are offering. Choosing one among numerous applicants is made simpler with these tools because each one differs in terms of personality.

There are various tools in assessing potential applicant in terms of the psychological aspect and the most popular is disc assessments. Some other firms are using Psychometric Testing for it can help in developing team spirit in the workplace as well as priorities of each individual. Researchers believe that the personality of a person was set at a young age and will never change through adulthood.

Personal preferences, thoughts and actions of an individual define the personality of an individual. It explains why some people are extrovert while some are introvert, why some are good leaders while the rest were merely followers. Each person is unique but once an individual was positioned in the right area, he or she will certainly do well regardless of his or her personality. Therefore, it is best to identify the personality of an applicant to know which position is suitable for him or her.

Those who are in the Human Resource department of a company are using a certain tool in assessing the personality of those who are already working for the firm as well as applicants. Using DISC profiling or some other tools available, they can evaluate whether the people whom they chose are working as expected. It is a great way in monitoring the growth for the company at he same time promoting a health workplace.

Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness test or commonly known as DISC Test facilitates in assessing the psychological aspect of pre-employed individuals. It identifies both the primary and secondary personalities of a person basing on the results of series of psychological examinations. DISC profiles of every employee can serve as basis in promoting professional growth for the betterment of the employee as well as the company.

Hiring personnel can also use a DISC profile in assessing parallelism in relation to some other qualifications that an applicant has presented. They are aware about the fact that an individual can maximize his or her potentials when the right job was given to him or her. It is also a fact that concentrating on the hiring process is a wiser option to prevent mismatching jobs and employees.




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