Psychometric Testing makes everyone's life easier

Candidates are inherently suspicious of psychometric tests. Understandable as many employers misuse them and keep all the information to themselves. However with proper use psychometric profiling will help the candidate and the employer discover if the job and the candidate are a good match. You see unless it works for both of them then there isn't a good deal on the table. It should be a win: win situation and nothing less. Maybe i'm an idealist but as an employer wouldn't you prefer that the candidate left the interview knowing that the job just wasn't suited to them and why? Surely better than them thinking they weren't good enough in some way. Pschometric profiling should be helping to reduce judgementalism and it can if it is used properly.

Comments

[liz]

How do you stop candidates lying? anyone with half a brain, looks at the job description, works out what the employer wants, and then completes the forms appropriately !!

[Martin Gibbons]

Good point, which makes you wonder why companies rely on CVs so much. The PeopleMaps profiler is difficult to cheat in a constructive way for two reasons; 1) You would need to know what the employer is looking for in terms of psychological profile and 2) You would need to know how to create this. With personality profiling you tend to get the real person. More truth than lies.