Taking A Pre-Employment Personality Test?
January 2009
Welcome to Personality Test Answers That Get You Hired. This website is designed for people taking a pre-employement personality test or career test as part of a job interview .
With an extremely competitive job market these days, employers are enjoying a "buyers market." There are hundreds of job
candidates for every opening. To help them select the best job
candidate, they're implementing the use of pre-employment personality tests as one of
the tools they use to help distinguish the good job candidates from the rest during the job interview process.
If you've read the papers you know that unemployment is rising nationally. That means more and more job seekers are applying for the same job you are. How do you make yourself stand out from the rest? Chances are your prospective employer has 10-12 other very well qualified job candidates just like you.
In their eyes all job applicants may have very similar qualifications. Employers want to get a deeper look into your personality beyond what standard job interview questions can provide. One of the tools employers use during the job interview process is the personality test.
So what is a personality
test? It is a type of career test that aims to describe aspects of a person's character
that remain stable across different situations. In other words, by
categorizing your personality traits, employers are using a service that
claims to be able to predict which job candidates will fit best for
any particular employment position. While the companies that sell these pre-employment testing services will claim that these personality tests are accurate. In reality however many managers will tell you they lost great candidates because those job applicants scored poorly on the personality test part of the job interview. Don't let this happen to you.
One very popular personality test used
by employers is the Myers Briggs Personality Test - a
personality questionnaire designed to identify certain psychological
differences according to the typological theories of Carl Jung. A growing company that offers employment testing for companies is Brainbench. Their growth is a direct result of employers increased interest in testing. Both the Myers Brigss personality test and the Brainbench perstonality test are increasingly chosen by employers.
Most job applicants willingly
answser employer's personality test questions as part of the job interview process and realize when it's too late that they could have been a little better prepared. Hiring managers will closely scrutinize your personality test answers. Even the slightest indication that you may not be a suitable job applicant could prevent you from receiving a job offer.
When you take a personality test during the job interview process, you'll
notice the test will ask the same personality question with slightly
different wording many times. This type of questioning is designed to test your level of honesty, sincerity and integrity. It's very common to answer a personality test question one way and a similar question a slightly different way. Pretty soon you end up making yourself seem like a very indecisive employee, one who is trying to outsmart the pre-employment test. Those kind of personality test answers can cost you the job offer.
By purchasing the eBook below, including the free bonus eBook "50 Interview Question Answers That Get You Hired!" you'll get a solid understanding of what these tests seek to measure and learn what the best personality test answers are for the type of position you are seeking. If you ask around many people will advise you not to prepare but to just take the test. Instead, learn how to answer personality test questions that will show you're the perfect candidate for the job.
Is this job interview a really good career opportunity for you? While you may be able to produce a satisfactory result without professional advice, you might answer just one or two questions "inappropriately" and cause your application to be disqualified. Is is worth it? Wouldn't you feel better if you knew how employers are going to rate & interpret your personality test answers?
Don't risk questionable results from the job interview pre-employment
personality test.
If we were all the same, the personality test results wouldn't matter. But of course we're
not. Every single person has a different personality, and therefore a different pre-employment personality test result.
Some personality types can be grouped into some general categories such as
introverted, extroverted, etc. How will the test categorize you? This is important because certain types of personalities fit very specific jobs. Sales positions, for example, are looking for extroverted, high energy personality types. Even if your test results predict you to be a great employee, you may be categorized as the wrong type of employee.
Executive hiring managers want to avoid risk.
Today a manager's career
can depend on his or her ability to select great employees during the job interview process. If you're adding a new person to your "team" you want to be sure that you choose the best candidate for the job. So the
conservative corporate manager will take steps to better qualify each job candidate. The pre-employment personality test is just one tool
during the job interview that helps them do this. In most cases employers likely put too much weight on the personality test. But no manager is going to want to risk challenging the results. If they hire you knowing you have a negative personality test profile, they risk getting themselves fired. As a result most managers choose the candidate that fits the profile and represents the least amount of risk.
Why personality tests can be unreliable:
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They only measure different attitudes
about things from different people. Your attitude about something in
general cannot be used to predict how you'll react to different & distinct business situations.
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They cannot predict behavior because
behavior is context sensitive. People act differently in different
environments. If you're in sales, and you're way ahead of your quota, you will almost certainly handle price concession requests differently than if you were way behind quota.
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They associate success with
specific personality types. In fact, personality requirements are
different for different jobs. Rarely do any of the tests customize their
recommendations by job type or environment. It's simply "This person
may (or may not) succeed." This just doesn't happen in real life.
You Need To Know How Your Answers Will Be Interpreted By Employers.
How would you answer the most common
personality test question:
"I have never told a lie."
There is a very specific
answer to this question that will indicate whether or not you are an
honest person. It's one of the most basic questions from the category
"integrity." The more you know about how to answer this question, the better your chances are of choosing the correct personality test answer, and landing the job. This question is actually from a whole category of personality test answers based upon integrity. Each question attempts to trip you up, to see if your really an honest person or not. Is that fair? Of course not. Of course you would say that you've told a lie once or twice in your life- right? Or maybe not. You'll get this question and the appropriate answer in detail when you download the eBook.
You need to prepare, study, and understand the psychology behind career tests.
Why are so many employers using these tests during the job interview process?
The answer is simple.
Companies use of the pre-employment screening test has increased over 300%
in the last five years alone because of complex computer modeling
that employs powerful mathematical algorithms, making the results seem far more
accurate than ever before.
But the most important reason employers love these tests are simply because there
is little else out there to evaluate you with.
Your previous employer will
refrain from saying anything negative about you because they may risk
litigation (getting sued). Today, your previous employer will only confirm your dates of
employment. Leaving employers with just a very few ways to evaluate you-
your resume, which you wrote; your references, which you gave them; and your
education- here they can at least verify your degree, and your GPA.
You may be asking yourself "Is it
ethical to learn how to take these
tests?" Absolutely. You're not trying to trick the personality test. You're just learning how your respones will be interpreted. Most people will suggest you "just answer the
personality test questions honestly." But you're only human. If you're taking a test for a
job interview that can really advance your career, you can't help but be a
little (a lot?) apprehensive when you take a personality test. It's perfectly normal, but can have a very significant impact on your test results.
Just like practicing a speech, you'll remove your
apprehension and nervousness by knowing what to expect, the type of questions you'll be asked, and how to answer the in a way that gives you the best chance at landing the job.
Let's take a look at
more personality test / career test questions.
We'll begin by putting our questions into
segments. For demonstration purposes, let's assume the segment is
"reliability." Here's some questions from this area:
- How thorough are you?
- Do you complete all your assignments?
- Are you the type of employee who always
arrives on time?
- How do you handle conflict?
- Are you persistent or do you give up easily?
These are typical
personality test questions the employer will
have about you. Don't be surprised to see questions like this:
"Work is the most
important thing in my life."
How should you answer?
Agree or disagree? If you don't know, it could cost you this job opportunity. Do you really
want to risk it? You may be seen as a workaholic that doesn't know when to quit. Or you may be viewed as someone with no personal life.
Here's another question:
"I would be
interested in learning how people handle stress at work."
This is a trick personality test question. Do you want to tell the empoyer you are so bad at handling stress that you need help? Or that you're a little on the arrogant side and you think you can handle any stressful situation? The eBook will tell you the most appropriate answer.
Like any other part of the job
interview
process, you need to do your homework on personality tests. You've already selected a
conservative outfit to wear during your interviews. You've spent hours and hours reading
job interview preparation material, about the company you're applying to, and finally personality test questions. You know what job interview questions to expect, and how to
respond. Your resume is polished and highlights all of your accomplishments beautifully.
Why would you risk losing your job on the pre-employment personality test
results?
Get my eBook "How to Beat
Personality Tests" right now.
Since it's in a PDF document format, you'll be able to download it in minutes, and start to understand how
employers and managers interpret your answers to the personality test
you will take during the job interview process.
You'll go into the test
feeling confident, and you'll take the personality test without any intimidation whatsoever.
Ever since I began to research these tests I've been amazed at how many people really don't understand how personality tests work.
But don't believe me, listen to this, from someone who had to take the Best Buy personality test:
"I had an interview at
Best Buy. Everything went great, but they told me I had to take their
personality test. I was really nervous because a friend from school had
taken the same test. He was so nervous that while taking the test he began to panic, and answered questions many different ways. Best Buy told him that his personality test results were
'unfavorable' and they ended the interview process. I bought the eBook 'How
Employers Rate Personality Test Answers." I was able to read it in
just a few hours, and it really clarified how these test work. Needless to say I
got the job at Best Buy."
Michelle C.
Minneapolis,
MN
You can't go wrong. Buy the eBook to have complete confidence when you take your job interview personality test- the one that can make or break your career. Read the eBook and get test results now that will ensure you're a top rated job candidate.
You'll get:
- Sample personality test questions and the correct answers based on the top 50 tests used by companies today.
- Expert tips, tricks, and techniques that will help you get the best possible personality test rating.
- An understanding of how the questions are grouped by category, and what each category tells employers about you.
- Each category contains a series of questions with a specific strategy on how to answer them while maintaining a consistent personality profile.
- The eBook is yours to keep. Download the .pdf file and keep it for future reference and share with family & friends.
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Recent newspaper articles on pre-employment personality testing:
New York Times: Revisiting Psychological Tests: Can They Really Do That?
Washington Post: Before Scoring That Job, You'd Better Ace the Test
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