Psychometric Test
7 Reasons
Why Businesses Use PeopleMaps As Their Psychometric Test of Choice
1) It’s affordable. No hidden costs and you can enjoy reports for less than £5 ($8)
2) Quick and easy to use.
3) Incredibly accurate reports.
4) Custom designed reports. You design what you actually want.
5) You can embed the questionnaire in your website and brand it as your own.
6) The PeopleMaps Personality Map and Compass, make it easy to see personality at a glance.
7) Reports written in plain English so anyone can use them.
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What is a Psychometric Test?
Here is an example of the psychometric test questionnaire.
You will see that it offers four statements and asks you to select which one is MOST like you.
It will then ask you to select which one is LEAST like you.
You will then be asked to select one of the two remaining statements; one of which will be MORE like you than the other.
The questions can be tricky as they come in pairs of statements. This is a feature that makes this questionnaire extremely accurate. Answering 50 to 100 simple A / B statements is a crude device compared to what you see here.
This is why with a mere 5 questions, the PeopleMaps Psychometric questionnaire can be so accurate.
There is much misunderstanding about what a psychometric test actually is. Firstly we are specifically talking about personality tests here, which is what most people mean when they use the term “psychometric test”. All personality tests are psychometric tests, but not all psychometric tests are about personality.
For one it’s not a test. I know that sounds crazy but it should be more accurately referred to as an assessment. You see a test implies that there is a right or wrong answer. That there is a good result or a bad result. That there is something that can be passed or failed. But there isn’t.
- It’s not possible to fail a psychometric test as it is not a test.
- There is no right or wrong answer.
- There is no such thing as a good or bad personality type.
It’s no wonder that people get confused. Somewhere along the way we started referring to it as a test and it sort of stuck. Unfortunately that’s how people view it and often view it negatively.
Instead you should use a psychometric test to enhance your understanding of self and others. It is not something anyone can pass or fail. It’s about verbalising something that most of us have great difficulty with.
Your personality affects everything you say, think and do. Every decision you make is influenced by your personality, so it is important that you understand what’s going on “under the hood”.
Psychometric testing in recruitment
Business has been using psychometric testing for over fifty years. Each year industry spends over $100 million on personality profiling.
PeopleMaps has developed the first psychometric test designed specifically for recruitment.
The most common application is recruitment and candidate selection. It’s very important that companies hire the right people and as they lose faith in traditional tools such as CVs, they are increasingly looking for better tools, such as personality testing.
Psychometric tests online have become increasingly popular as they offer a significant time saving. It used to be that a personality test took all day and people had to come and sit in a room for hours answering questions. Afterwards a consultant would interpret the results and produce a report. It was a long and expensive process.
With an online psychometric test, an employer can be reading a candidate’s report in less than ten minutes.
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Psychometric testing in management
If you are in management then your success is determined by your ability to get results through your subordinates. This is why business psychology is a core skill in management today.
PeopleMaps has developed a library of personality topics to help managers understand each of their staff members. Through this deeper understanding managers can increase their productivity.
Topics include;
- How to communicate
- How to delegate
- How to lead
- How to reduce stress
- How to create an ideal work environment
Managers no longer need to try and figure all of this out for each member of their staff. A quick glance at their personality report will remind the manager of the most effective way to delegate to each staff member for instance.
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Personality tests in personal development
If you are a coach or trainer then an understanding of your clients or students is essential. Personality is the bedrock of personal development.
What is good advice for one person is the completely wrong advice for another. A personality report is the starting point of personal development. PeopleMaps provides coaches with a library of topics on a wide range of subjects, so they may design and build the report their client actually needs. Jung was a great believer in striving towards realizing our potential, no matter what age.
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Psychometric Tests FAQ
Let’s put some myths to bed.
1) Long questionnaires do not produce more accuracy. Users get bored and this adversely affects the results. This is one of the reasons the PeopleMaps questionnaire returns such amazingly accurate results even though the questionnaire only takes five minutes.
2) You don’t need a consultant to read the report to you if the reports are written in plain English. PeopleMaps writes all its reports in plain English. No specialist knowledge is required.
3) You do not need to go an a training course for days to use professional psychometric testing. With PeopleMaps you will be up and running in ten minutes.
4) Online personality testing is how things are done in the 21st century. There is no reason to drag everyone into a room and have them complete a questionnaire. Let them do it from the comfort of their own home.
5) Properly designed personality questionnaires cannot be easily manipulated by users. Only poorly designed questionnaires are subject to this. The PeopleMaps bi-polar, forced choice questionnaire is extremely reliable and impenetrable to most people.
6) Personality reports do not come in one size. It used to be in the old days that you received a one style of personality report and then had to sift through it to get the parts that were relevant to you. Today PeopleMaps provides you with complete control over this and provides you with a huge library of topics so that you can design exactly the report you need. This way you are only paying for the content you use, making this a unique psychometric test.
Psychometric Career Test
Looking for your ideal job? This FREE Career Test is the most powerful test on the web. It only takes about 5 minutes to complete and will reveal more about what your ideal job looks like than many of the paid for tests.
Discover what you were simply born to do, with this free psychometric test for career development.
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i like the psycho metric test i enjoy them
Understood the comments that the test is for assessment of personality as per the requirement of the organization
To my opinion is that this test is conducted to see if the person personlity fits with certain code of conduct of certain society or company. But with the personality of a person to be judged whether right or wrong is hectic since always a person is struggling to live the best to the fullest in his/her daily life.