Personality tests and psychometrics. About online personality tests

Understanding about personality tests can be a big help should you have to face one and the best way to understand them is to do one. You can try one here for free.

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Your personality test results will reveal a range of things about you to a potential employer. Typically it will reveal your strengths, weaknesses and your preferred style of working and communicating.

To begin with you will usually be asked to complete a Forced Choice Questionnaire if it is a sophisticated system. This can be an awkward thing at first as often you want to select two answers equally but the system will not let you do so. Get familiar with this type of questionnaire and your next interview will be a little easier.

Personality profilers do not consider your education, qualifications or experience. They purely look at your personality.

It is not an exact science and potential employers often miss-use the system and depend upon it too much. Some people come across differently than they would imagine so it is important that you know how you are coming across. They are not perfect and they do get it wrong. Do not assume you know what your report says until you have tried a report and read the results.

An employer will delve into your perceived weaknesses according to the report, so it is better that you know what these may be and prepare some questions. Everyone has weaknesses in their report.

Do not try and cheat your results answer honestly. There are two reasons for this:

You do not know what type the employer is looking for
You do not know how to reproduce this type

It is also possible for experienced profile analysers to tell if you are trying to trick the system.

So, do try a free test by clicking on the link below and see what they are all about!

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The Philosophies underpinning PeopleMaps

From earliest times attempts have been made to classify individuals according to types. The psychology underpinning PeopleMaps, comes from the work of Carl Jung who identified that people divided into two categories which he described as 'extravert' and 'introvert'.

By using these two attitudes and adding what he called the rational functions of 'thinking' and 'feeling' plus the irrational functions of 'sensing' and 'intuition', he came up with eight basic types of people. Four of these fell into the extraverted category and four the introverted.

These basic eight types plus a further four 'cross types', made up of a more complex mix of the eight are used to create PeopleMaps. Below is a simplified explanation of a very small part of Jung's much more complex, aimed at helping individuals who are not psychologists gain a real understanding of 'self' and others.

Carl Jung

In 1921 Carl Jung the Swiss psychologist wrote his book 'Psychological Types'. While recognising that psychology was the youngest science and that other definitions of types might exist, he felt the need to identify type from a psychological perspective. He used his definition of types as a compass and claimed that he would not for anything be without this compass.

Attitudes

Jung claimed that people used two very different 'attitudes' when dealing with the world, 'extraversion' and 'introversion', which he defined as; "a readiness of the psyche to act or react in a certain way. The extravert is controlled by his relation to the thing without, the introvert by his relation to the thing within."

Extraverts

"Extraversion is characterised by interest in the external object, responsiveness and a ready acceptance of external happenings, a desire to influence and be influenced by events, a need to join in and get 'with it', the capacity to endure bustle and noise of every kind, and actually find them enjoyable".

Introverts

"The introvert is not forthcoming, (s)he is as though continually in retreat before the object. (S)He holds aloof from external happenings, does not join in and has a distinct dislike of society as soon as (s)he finds him/herself among too many people. In a large gathering (s)he feels lonely and lost. His/her own world is a safe harbour, a carefully tended and walled-in garden, closed to the public and hidden from prying eyes."

The Four Functions

Jung also described four functions, which together with the attitudes, make up psychological Types: thinking and feeling he called the rational functions, sensing and intuition he called the irrational. People who prefer thinking have a task focus and those with a preference for feeling have a people focus. People who prefer sensing are more pragmatic and want to deal with the here and now. They want certainty - can I see or touch it? People who have an intuitive preference are more future oriented, more about possibilities.

Carl Jung's work is used as the basis for the majority of corporate psyhcological profiling. This is why the results of your PeopleMaps report will mirror the findings of a report you may have to undertake for an employer.

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Your ideal job

PeopleMaps provides the information which will help you to select, win and enjoy the job that suits you and your personality.

Whether looking for a new job, promotion or career change, most of us apply a trial and error approach to job hunting. We hear what we want to hear at the interview and don't actually find out if the job is right for us until we have taken up the position. By then it is often too late and within a few months we are back in the job market or at least wishing we were.

Everyone has an individual personality type with different characteristics from those of others. This is why some jobs are great for one person but hated by the next. As individuals we are most effective when we understand our preferences and the tasks that give us greatest satisfaction in the world of work.

Combine this with a greater understanding of the characteristics of other types, and the impact we can have on them, and you will create better relationships and gain more satisfaction from life generally.

Save yourself time and potential anguish in searching for that elusive 'ideal' job, use PeopleMaps to let you make informed decisions about what type of work environment is most suited to your individual personality and needs.

Try it. You'll be amazed.

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About online personality profiles

About online personality profiles