Personality assessments are a form of psychometric assessment that gives information about the individual personality preferences and personal qualities.
Personality Assessments are also called:
- Personality Questionnaires
- Personality Inventories
- Personality Profiles
- Personality Profiling
Personality assessments combined with ability tests and/or motivation and values questionnaires are referred together as psychometric assessments.
In a recruitment context personality questionnaires may answer employer's questions such as:
- “How are they going to go about doing the job?”
- “Do they have the right attitude and preferences to fit in?”
- “Are they detailed and hard working?”
- “Can they lead a team effectively?”
- “Do they have the competencies required for the role?”
- And many more aspects of their personality fit with the role
In a career planning context, personality assessments may answer individual's questions like:
- “What types of roles are my preferences best suited to?”
- “What type of organisation and industry would I prefer?”
- “What type of leader do I need?”
- "What different careers might suit my strengths and interests"
- And many other career questions
Read more about each of the following personality assessments:
- California Psychological Inventory (CPI434) – read more about the construction of the CPI…
- California Psychological Inventory – short form (CPI260)
- Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)
- Hogan Development Survey (HDS)
- 15 Factor Questionnaire (15FQ)
- Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ32)
- Occupational Personality Profile (OPP)
- NEO PI-R™ and NEO-FFI
- DiSC
The preferences personality assessments tend to measure fall into the big 5 personality characteristics:
- Emotional Stability
- Extroversion
- Openness
- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
Read more about the Big Five Personality Dimensions...
Together personality profiles, ability tests and values assessments may assist in analysing individuals for a variety of purposes – such as recruitment, development or career analysis.
Personality assessments have been criticised by some in that some are easy to fake - read more about faking..
Download a pdf of these personality assessment tools and their descriptions
