Are Personality Tests Fair?

In recent years, psychologists and human resources practitioners have suggested the use of personality testing as a tool to assist in making better and more informed hiring and developmental decisions. However, before deciding to use personality assessments in your organization, there are a number of pros and cons to consider.

Pros of Personality Assessments: 1) Strengthening the interview: A good personality assessment can help hiring managers to know which soft skills and behavioral interview questions they should pay attention to during the interview. 2)Gaining a deeper insight into candidates: Employees and job candidates have a wide variety of skills, abilities, and work styles. These differences are not always apparent on a resume or during an interview, so personality assessments can give you another tool for understanding what the candidate has to offer and how they will fit into your work culture. 3)Development and recognition tools: Personality assessments help you to understand the values, motives and preferences of employees and will help you understand what they need from you as an employer to stay engaged. 4)Team building: Employees are increasingly working in a team environment. When building and managing teams, understanding the personalities of team members is critical for success. 5) Improving the culture: Personality tests can be used to enhance your organization’s culture by understanding each employee’s communication styles, leadership styles, learning styles, and level of introversion or extroversion.

Cons of Personality AssessmentsTests take time: 1)Testing and obtaining the results from a professional can take time, which can result in losing a candidate to another company.Tests cost money: 2) Personality assessments can be costly. Estimated costs range between $100 and $5,000 per candidate. 3)Rules and regulations: The personality testing market isn’t subject to government regulation. Technically, anyone can design and administer tests. To increase the probability of accurate interpretations, and to avoid any unintentional discrimination, it is important that you find a fair and consistent test and you use only trained professionals to administer and evaluate the assessments.

http://www.helioshr.com/2014/05/pros-vs-cons-of-personality-assessments/

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