Psychology Test

The terms PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS- PSYCHOLOGY TESTS - PSYCH TESTS are often used inter-changeably to describe the same thing.

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.

A psychological test is an instrument designed to measure unobserved constructs, also known as latent variables. Psychological tests are typically, but not necessarily, a series of tasks or problems that the respondent has to solve. Psychological tests can strongly resemble questionnaires, which are also designed to measure unobserved constructs, but differ in that psychological tests ask for a respondent's maximum performance whereas a questionnaire asks for the respondent's typical performance. A useful psychological test must be both valid (i.e., there is evidence to support the specified interpretation of the test result) and reliable (i.e., internally consistent or give consistent results over time, across raters, etc.).

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