Recruitment Personality Test
How To Hire The Right Candidates, Every time
Recruitment Personality Test for Small and Large Recruiters
This recruitment personality test is quick and easy to set up. No training is required. Perfect for busy managers who just want to hire the right candidate. Designed as an Interview Guide, you can print off the report and immediately begin interviewing the job candidate with it.
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No setup costs or training costs, making this the most affordable, professional profiler available today. Try it for free and judge for yourself.
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Why most recruitment personality tests don't work for busy line managers
Most personality tests were designed for psychologists, not hiring managers. They produce long, jargon-heavy reports that take hours to interpret and require specialist training to use correctly. By the time you’ve worked out what it means, you’ve already lost the candidate to a faster-moving competitor.
PeopleMaps Risk Guard was built specifically for recruitment. It takes 5 minutes to complete, produces a plain-English report tailored to your job role, and includes the interview questions to ask; so even an inexperienced line manager can conduct a revealing, structured interview the same day.
What's in the recruitment personality test?
For example, if you are hiring a sales person then you will want to read about their natural sales style and their ability to make and keep appointments.
If you have hiring a manager then you will want to know how they approach delegation. You may also want to know how the manage or lead staff.
You will be interested in different things depending on the job role. So instead of giving you a long, unwieldy and expensive report to sift through, PeopleMaps lets you design your own report by picking the handful of topics you feel are most relevant.
How to use a recruitment personality test with PeopleMaps
Step 1. Choose your report design
Select the report that matches your job role. PeopleMaps has over 40 topic areas covering everything from sales style and delegation to resilience under pressure. If you’re not sure which topics to pick, send us the job description and we’ll recommend a configuration.
Step 2. Send the questionnaire to your candidate
You get a unique link to send to each candidate. The questionnaire takes 7 minutes to complete on any device. No instructions needed — candidates find it straightforward.
Step 3. Use the report to guide your interview
Your report arrives immediately and is written as an interview guide, not a psychology textbook. Each section includes specific questions to ask the candidate and explains what to listen for in their answers. Print it out, take it into the interview and use it.
Personality Testing for Recruitment
Personality Testing for Recruitment is not like any other type of profiling. You should not use a general personality report for recruitment.
You should always use a specially designed personality report for recruitment.
What makes PeopleMaps the right recruitment personality test for your organisation
No training required
Unlike most psychometric tools, Recruitment Risk Guard needs no specialist knowledge to use. Line managers pick it up in minutes. There is no certification course, no mandatory briefing and no consultant required.
Results in 5 minutes
The candidate questionnaire takes 5 minutes to complete. The report is generated instantly. You can have a personality-based interview guide ready before the candidate has finished their coffee.
Built as an interview guide
Every report includes interview questions written specifically for that personality type. You are not left to interpret data; you are given a conversation guide that reveals the real person behind the CV.
Tailored to the job role
A personality test for hiring a salesperson should focus on different issues than one for hiring a manager or a customer service agent. PeopleMaps lets you choose a report design relevant to your role, so the report your manager reads is focused and directly useful.
Why employers trust PeopleMaps for recruitment personality testing
Over 1.5 million people have completed the PeopleMaps questionnaire. Clients across the UK and internationally; from contact centres processing hundreds of hires a year to SMEs hiring their first member of staff. PeopleMaps has been described as “spookily accurate” and something they would not now recruit without.
“PeopleMaps is a cost-effective aid in our staff selection and development activities. The online profiling has become an integral part of our recruiting process — easy to access, quick and simple to use by applicants and to administer by HR personnel. The personality insight helps in structuring our candidate interviews and increasing our confidence in the selection process.”
Roger Tyler, Syscomm
Recruitment personality testing across industries
Recruitment Risk Guard is used by hiring managers across a wide range of sectors. The report design adapts to the role, which means the same system works for a contact centre hiring 50 agents a month and a professional services firm hiring one specialist a quarter.
High-volume contact centre recruitment
Contact centres face some of the highest staff turnover rates of any sector. Using a recruitment personality test at the shortlist stage identifies candidates whose natural personality is suited to the demands of the role, before they start. PeopleMaps clients in contact centres report significant reductions in early attrition as a direct result.
Recruitment agencies
Recruitment agencies use PeopleMaps to add value to every placement, providing clients with a personality report alongside the CV. This differentiates the agency and reduces the risk of a bad placement for both parties. White label options are available for agencies who want to brand the reports as their own.
Sales recruitment
Hiring salespeople is one of the most expensive recruitment mistakes a business can make. A personality test for hiring sales staff focuses specifically on natural sales behaviours; motivation, resilience, communication style and approach to targets, giving you a far more reliable picture than a CV or first interview alone.
People Maps is a cost-effective aid in our staff selection and development activities.
The online profiling it provides has become an integral part of our recruiting process, is easy to access and quick and simple to use by applicants and to administer by HR personnel.
We have found that the personality insight provided by straightforward and reliable reporting helps in structuring our candidate interviews and in increasing our confidence and success in our selection process.
Frequently asked questions about recruitment personality tests
What is a recruitment personality test?
A recruitment personality test is a structured questionnaire that reveals how a job candidate thinks, communicates and behaves in a work context. Unlike a general personality test, a recruitment personality test is designed specifically to help hiring managers make better decisions — focusing on traits relevant to the job role and providing interview questions based on the results.
How long does a recruitment personality test take?
The PeopleMaps questionnaire takes 5 minutes to complete. The report is generated immediately and is available to the hiring manager as soon as the candidate finishes. There is no waiting period and no manual scoring required.
Can you fail a recruitment personality test?
No. There are no right or wrong answers in a personality test for hiring. Although it is commonly referred to as a “personality test” it isn’t in fact a test, it’s an assessment. The report is not used to pass or fail candidates; it is used as an interview guide to help the manager understand the candidate better and ask the right questions. Personality is not graded, it is described.
Do I need training to use a recruitment personality test?
Not with PeopleMaps. Recruitment Risk Guard is specifically designed so that busy line managers can use it without any psychological training or specialist knowledge. The report is written in plain English and includes the questions to ask in the interview, so there is no interpretation required.
How much does a recruitment personality test cost?
Recruitment Risk Guard is the most cost effective way to access recruitment personality tests. One of the biggest costs associated with profiling is the training costs. PeopleMaps requires no training to use Recruitment Risk Guard. The report credits are very affordable and for larger users a license is available that grants you unlimited use for a small monthly fee. Register for a free trial account to see the full pricing.
Is a recruitment personality test the same as a psychometric test?
Personality testing is one type of psychometric test. A psychometric test measures psychological characteristics, which can include personality, aptitude, reasoning or emotional intelligence. When used for recruitment, a psychometric personality test focuses on personality behaviours that are relevant to job performance and cultural fit.
How is PeopleMaps different from MBTI or DISC for recruitment?
MBTI and DISC were not originally designed for recruitment. PeopleMaps Recruitment Risk Guard was. The reports are written as interview guides rather than personality profiles, which means the hiring manager gets specific questions to ask rather than a document to interpret. It also takes 5 minutes rather than 30, requires no training and costs a fraction of traditional psychometric testing.
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