What are the advantages of Psychometric Testing?

This short blog lists some of the advantages of Psychometric Testing to assess and compare personality traits; check our blog next week for a post on the possible disadvantages of psychometric testing. We will also be publishing an introduction to psychometrics on Youtube soon – watch this space!

- Help ensure fully informed decisions for recruitment and promotion: when used appropriately and ethically, psychometrics can be highly effective. For example, choosing the wrong person for the job can be a significant cost to an organisation, as well as being demoralising for the person mistakenly appointed.

- Help individuals better understand themselves: in career and development work, tests and profiles can help people better understand their interests, ambitions and motivations, as well as their abilities and aptitudes.

- Gain accurate results that cannot be ‘faked’: most tests are difficult to ‘fake’, and so will often give a more accurate indication of a characteristic than may be gained just through interviewing, role-plays and so on.

- Gain objective results and compare individuals fairly: tests are objective, meaning that they exclude ‘good impressions’, personal preferences and other distorting factors, and enable one person to be accurately compared with another in a fair and unbiased way.

Any questions or suggestions? Don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

UPDATE 1/3/2012: You can now download our psychometric testing glossary here (PDF)

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