Personality profiling of people, sometimes called psychometric testing or psychological profiling, helps us understand a person's psychological profile in a under certain circumstances.
It will not disclose anything about how smart they are|It is not a indication of IQ or ability.
It will reveal things about the individual's preferred way of acting|However you may discover something about how they behave.
In this blog post we will talk about about personality profiling and perhapshow to use it in the office.
Personality profiling at work
Personality Profiling is utilised to help companies in a range of ways.. For over fifty years profiling has helped with;
Recruitment
Employee assessments
Coaching
Teams
Personality Profiling for Recruitment
Are you recruiting? You probably know already that even though some personality types will cope, the vast majority will not. It doesn't matter what qualifications or what experience they have. Each person's personality type will determine how they cope with the work environment you you have to offer.
Ideally you should to recruit “Naturals” over “Forced Fits”.
A “Natural” will cope with your job role much easier. They will have more opportunity to work to their natural strengths. “Naturals” will stick the job longer and perform better.
“Forced Fits” will always struggle with your work environment. They have to invest a lot of energy just to cope with your environment. This is why PeopleMaps developed the Success Profile Builder. With this tool you can identify which candidates will do best in your job role.
How To Profile People
Lots of people ask the question, how do you profile people. It's pretty much impossible to do this manually.You need some software, which consists of a questionnaire and some code, and some content to output.
However the practical way to profile people is to use one of the established systems. It takes years of refinement and development to produce a profiler that can be relied upon. PeopleMaps spent millions and almost twenty years to create its platform. Be very careful of any system that tool less than that.
Are you looking for FBI profiling? Then that's a very different subject as this is not something covered in this article.
Personality Profiling Tools
There are many personality profiling tools on the market. You must be looking to ensure you order the best one for your organisation. Will it last the test of time?. It takes years to refine a system to produce repeatable results.
Make sure it is designed for your application. There is no such thing as a personality report as they are all very different, make sure you get the right one. Is it an internet system?|Make sure it has been designed to be used on the internet|These days software has to work online.
As with most things, there are good systems and bad systems. You don't want long winded questionnaires. What psychology is utilised?.
