Personality assessments, or “communication style” as I prefer, are highly valuable in the hiring process for one important aspect – communication.\u00a0 How many office conflicts have you seen where poor communication was adding oxygen to the fire?\u00a0 We see it in almost every office conflict.<\/p>\n
One way to diffuse these situations is to assess candidates before they join your team.\u00a0 Doing so allows the manager to know the preferred communication style of the new employee.\u00a0 This knowledge can also predict potential conflict areas between two employees before any conflict develops.<\/p>\n
However, there are still companies out there who harbor concerns about assessments.\u00a0 One common concern is mentioned in this BusinessWeek.com article – Personality and the Perfect Job<\/a>:<\/p>\n Isn’t there a danger that employers who use personality tests as part of the employment process stereotype individuals?<\/strong><\/p>\n Enlightened employers consider personality as only one facet of the selection process. Finding the right “fit” between the job and the person should be a win-win proposition and should be a matter of discussion for any professional interview process.<\/p>\n Some of the personality traits to consider: Do you prefer a structured environment, or is a variety of tasks more important? Do you thrive in crisis situations or value consistent processes? Would you rather work primarily by yourself, or as a member of a team? Are you a big-picture thinker, or do you excel in making sure all the details of a job are completed? Knowing both your own preferences and the requirements of a prospective job can help you (and the employer) make a choice that will give good prospects for ongoing success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The key point in there is to know what the job requires.\u00a0 My concern with personality assessments is not that they stereotype individuals but rather that hiring managers think there is only 1 personality that can succeed in the position.\u00a0 This reason is why I prefer to use the term “style” instead.\u00a0 Personality is really more about style and how someone will approach people, problems, data, etc.\u00a0 It is not indicative of skills, aptitudes and motivations.<\/p>\n This distinction must be made when hiring.\u00a0 In the end, assessing solely for style is still better than not assessing at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Personality assessments, or “communication style” as I prefer, are highly valuable in the hiring process for one important aspect – communication.\u00a0 How many office conflicts have you seen where poor communication was adding oxygen to the fire?\u00a0 We see it in almost every office conflict. One way to diffuse these situations is to assess candidates before they join your team.\u00a0 Doing so allows the manager to know the preferred communication style of the new employee.\u00a0 This knowledge can also predict potential conflict areas between two employees before any conflict develops. However, there are still companies out there who harbor concerns about assessments.\u00a0 One common concern is mentioned in this BusinessWeek.com… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,6,14,16],"tags":[244,341,340,1748,342,339,338],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-n7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}