Personality profiling, Commonly referred to as psychometric testing or psychological profiling, is a fast way to comprehend someone's personality in a under certain circumstances.
It will not disclose stuff about how smart they may be|It isn't a indication of intelligence or even ability.
It will reveal things about their preferred way of acting|However you will learn about something about how they interact with the world.
In this blog post you will discover what personality profiling is and evenhow to apply it in your business or your life.
Profiling at in business
You can use personality profiling in all sorts of ways at your work. For more than 55 years profiling has helped with;
Recruitment
Staff Appraisals
Development
Team Building
Profiling in Recruitment
Hiring? You probably know already that even though a few personality types will cope, most will not. This is regardless of their qualifications or experience. An individual's personality type will determine how they cope with the work environment you are offering.
It is always better to hire people who are natural rather than people who are not.
A “Natural” will find your work environment compatible with their personality profile. They will have more opportunity to work to their natural strengths. “Naturals” are less likely to quit and deliver better results.
“Forced Fits” Are always peddling uphill. They have to invest a lot of energy just to cope with your environment. So People Maps invented SPB. This helps you figure out what your work environment is and which personality types are most likely to cope with it.
How To Do this
So one of the usual things people wish to know is “how to profile people”. The hard way to do it is to try and do it manually.It requires a system, which is a combination of a questionnaire and some code, that produces a result.
Much easier by far is to use an existing platform. It takes years of refinement and development to produce a profiler that can be relied upon. PeopleMaps spent millions and many many years to create its platform. Cheap systems are not going to work reliably enough.
Are you looking for FBI profiling? Then you need to look at a very different school and it's not what this piece is about.
Personality Profiling Tools
With so many systems to choose from. You must be ensuring you select the best one for your organisation. Make sure it has some longevity. Make sure it has been tried and tested for years.
Will it do what you need it to do?. There is no such thing as a personality report as they are all very different, picking the right one can be difficult. Is it an internet system?|Double check it has been designed to work on the web|In this day and age everything has to work online.
Very few the systems are as reliable as some claim. Check the questionnaire is short as well as accurate. Look into who the psychologist is underpinning it.
