If you’re looking to quantify your approach to candidate assessment, customising a Personality Test is an essential piece of the puzzle. A Personality Test allows you to build up a broader picture of an applicant, getting an idea about their preferences and traits.
While broadly used personality tests and accompanying frameworks exist, your business, its culture, and its requirements are unique, so customising a Personality Test and creating your own personas, or profiles, allows you to build a bespoke solution that can best serve your approach to HR.
As well as text, you can include videos, audio, and imagery to pose scenarios and ask questions to get an idea of a candidate’s approach to work, and their working preferences. You can take the results from a Personality Test, typically in the form of an assigned persona type, and include them alongside the results from Aptitude Tests and Skills Tests, and develop a bank of data on a candidate to balance against their CV and interview performance.
For example, if you’re hiring for a position that requires strong social skills as it involves a lot of collaboration, both with colleagues and with clients, and a candidate’s answers result in a profile that’s described as introverted, that gives you some important questions to ask in the interview (if the rest of their application is strong enough to get them to the interview). By contrast, if a candidate applying for the same role gave answers resulting in a profile that’s described as being a people person who works best with others, their preferences might justify bringing them to interview over an equally qualified candidate.
The result for your business of a well-crafted Personality Test is that you’ll be able to bring the best candidates to interview, and make the right hiring decision faster.