Personality Test

Personality Tests

As a help in understanding and choosing exactly which sort of report you need we offer the following clarification. Some references and extracts have been sourced from Wikipedia.

There are many different types of personality tests. Some are based on typologies or stylistic or theoretical constructs, for example Myers-Briggs, DiSC, TMI and numerous other instruments, some of dubious validity. Whilst these instruments are often useful for understanding of self and other people and personal development, they are not legal for use in employment and recruiting under the USA Equal Employment Opportunity legislation.

The most stringent personality tests have used a statistical procedure called Factor Analysis to determine the constructs. These dimensional factorial tests can be aligned with workplace requirements, and have been legally defended in the USA and are legal for use in recruitment and employment. The Apollo Profile is a factorial test and is legal for appropriate use in recruitment in the USA.

Personality tests, especially Five-Factor (Big Five personality traits) such as the NEO PIR, are extremely powerful. For a current bibliography see the NEO PIR Bibliography (Costa and McCrae, PAR, 2003). Just one article "The five-factor model of personality in the workplace" (Neubert) shows how the personality factors predict job satisfaction and performance. The Apollo Profile has significant statistical correlation with many factors of the NEO PIR.

The Apollo Profile Recruitment Test Report

The Apollo Profile is a professionally designed and validated psychometric test and a factor-based personality test. It reports on 34 aspects for job suitability and career success. The Apollo Profile Recruitment Test is a purpose built report designed for helping recruiters match applicants to jobs. Through using a proprietary algorithm the Apollo Recruitment Test can numerically compare candidates to other appropriate norm groups to provide a numerical likelihood for overall job suitability and for specific role requirements. A narrative description of the meaning of all scores is provided. Apollo offers other purpose designed reports for Staff Development and Career Development.

Apollo also offer a Job Analysis and Candidate Evaluation tool called Apollo Select which enables a recruiter to analyse the job/role, and list any skills, knowledge, attitudes and qualifications sought, and is integrated with the Apollo Profile test to provide a total summary of all applicants suitability on the one form. See www.apolloselect.com.au