How To Use Personality Tests for Hiring and Staffing

I have found that using personality testing has helped me save time and money. Personality and IQ testing can help with the screening process to eliminate people who are not a good match for you and/or your company. These tests can also help you double check your instincts when advancing job candidates through the interview process. They can also help you strengthen your team to make sure that you have the best personality traits for each position. Remember everyone can bring different strengths to the table and the more that you are aware of these strengths, the more you can develop a strong team using each strength in the best way possible.

Over the years, I have used a wide variety of personality, strength and IQ tests. Here are my favorite below which a bit of information on each test.

Each test focuses on various attributes, so I like to look at all three. Remember, you want to find the personality that suits the job best, not just your favorite personality. In fact, it is important that each member of the team brings complementary traits to the team. Here are my favorite tests listed below:

• Myers Brigg Personality Inventory
• Strengths Finder
• Wonderlic

Myers Brigg Personality Inventory which looks at extraversion/introversion and sensing/intuitive and thinking/feeling and judging/perceiving. Each person is given a four letter summary which suggests a personality type. There are 16 types all together. Here are the results from our 2014 team. As you can see, we have a variety of personality types.

Strengths Finder is another one of my favorites. This test focuses on each employee or applicant’s strengths. Does your team need someone who is an achiever, harmonious, responsible, adaptable or a learner? Here are the results of seven of our team members from a strengths finder that our office took about ten years ago. As you can see once again, our team has a variety of strengths. Each column represents a different employee on our team. There are definite similarities which are important to our team and also some important distinctions among employees.

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