Personality assessments give information about the personality preferences and qualities the person displays.
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.
The things personality assessments tend to measure fall into the big 5 personality characteristics:
- Emotional Stability
- Extroversion
- Openness
- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
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.
In a recruitment context personality questionnaires may answer 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?”
In a career planning context, personalityassessments may answer 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"
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)
- NEOPI-R™
- DiSC
Download a pdf of these tools and their descriptions
We have other assessment tools in the following categories:
- Ability Tests
- Integrity Tests
- Values and Motives Assessments
- Interest Inventories
- Sales Assessments
- Safety Assessments
- Behavioural Exercises