Adaptable Employees—Indispensable and How to Identify Before Hiring
But how do you find out if someone is truly adaptable in a way that can fortify your company’s competitiveness? Here’s how.
October 11, 2010
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But how do you find out if someone is truly adaptable in a way that can fortify your company’s competitiveness? Here’s how.
I believe extensive workplace psychological simulation is a valuable hiring tool, yet I strongly recommend the use of a range of evaluations, including handwriting analysis, in conjunction with other psychological testing methods to determine a person’s fit for the demands of any job.
A personality assessment by a licensed psychologist of a prospective employee, business partner, or anyone else you don’t yet know very well who could be a risk to your well-being, could be very effective.
Then again, it might not be, as in the case of a man who served more than 10 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit after authorities obtained an arrest warrant based on psychological analysis of his drawings that examiners claimed implicated him.
While I believe there may be some value in the Myers-Briggs personality assessment, particularly in helping to determine social inclination, for example, two things must be kept in mind: it’s a self-assessment test, so it may not reflect true personality; the test labels the subject either-or, and nothing in-between, so it’s possible to get different results taking the test on different occasions.
In determining your optimum career, or if you’re a hiring supervisor looking for the right person for the job, a wide range of personality evaluations are firmly recommended.
But what do you do if you want to get into a totally new career and you would like to identify, in detail, your subconscious motivations and abilities to help you make the most of your new venture? You need career assessment methods that delve deeply into your personality, such as handwriting analysis in conjunction with comprehensive astrology and numerology.