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Problematic personality assessments
Personality assessments targeted toward hiring recruiters and managers assume there is a hidden truth about you that can match you up to a job. But there isn't any hidden truth that a personality test can uncover.
Personality is not that mysterious. If the assessment process seems confusing or if questions deviate into the abstract, that's a red flag.
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The simplicity of the Big 5 model
The Big 5 model group characteristics into five basic categories. Extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience.
- It doesn't sort anybody into a "type," just informs where a person will fall on a continuum.
- You won't ...
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Early 20th century personality tests
Personality questionnaires started about a century ago.
- The questions during WWI were geared to study personality and mental health problems to weed out soldiers who weren't fit to fly military aircraft.
- Academics created different personality scales on what...
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Most personality tests are invalid
Personality tests have been formulated to find the real you, but many of these tests are not tested scientifically and are more a pseudoscience.
One famous example of a commercial personality test is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that divides people into 16 different...
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The Big 5 model
One personality model survived the 20th century. It's called the Big 5 Personality Traits (5-Factor Model). It was developed in 1961 and since have been developed into its modern form.
The Big 5 model takes a holistic approach by compiling every word that could be considered a personality ...
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