A personality test will provide added insight into emotional intelligence and other aspects of personality that will increase productivity and decrease employee turnover
Using A Personality Test For Employee Assessment
An economic slowdown naturally produces growing numbers of candidates seeking employment. To ensure your organization can take full advantage of newly available talent, using a personality test to help select people with high emotional intelligence and the skills needed succeed is a great tool.
Though it may seem selecting talent would be easy in the present climate, those hiring are challenged with many more resumes to review than in normal economic conditions.
Assessment tests, such as the Drake P3 personality test, when used as part of the hiring process, provides employers an efficient way of selecting the best candidates. They are the candidates most qualified for a specific job in terms of skills, knowledge and emotional intelligence.
Though various types of personality tests have been used for years, many are familiar the old Myers Briggs test, their necessity is all the more evident today. The Drake P3 has, with the benefit of a long history of the Myers Briggs test, improved and expanded a proven, but over time, limited test. A more complete personality test can more accurately assess a candidate’s emotional intelligence and gives every organization the opportunity to minimize employee turnover.
A personality test provides a manager a more in-depth read on job candidates. This will usually lead to more accurate and long-lasting hiring decisions, reducing future employee turnover. A personality test will also help candidates determine whether or not the job for which they are applying is a good match for their backgrounds and abilities.
A Personality Test Will Help Gauge Emotional Intelligence
The reality is a resume review and interview will not always identify the most optimal hire. A personality test will go beyond these typical means of analysis. Very often qualities not evident during a more basic interview process will be highlighted with the use of a personality test.
Most organizations realize high employee turnover is costly. Replacing valued performers can reach more than two times an employee’s salary for high-level or specialized positions. Even replacing entry to mid-level employees can be expensive when recruitment and training costs are considered. Selecting candidates with high emotional intelligence alone will lower costly employee turnover.
Personality Test Facts
- Studies show costs to equal one-third to one and one-half times salary with each lost employee. An effective personality test helps organizations reduce employee turnover by helping to fill open positions with “best fit” individuals.
- An added benefit of assessment testing is the employer’s ability to improve fair hiring practices by standardizing the process.
- Assessments, created properly and validated, should treat all applicants in the same, non-subjective manner and should not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability or age.
- In addition to hiring, a personality test can support training programs. Development and onboarding processes can be more effective when emotional intelligence enhances the value of these programs. Assessments allow managers the ability to find out how a new hire’s personality and behavior set will interact with the established team. The manager can then tailor the team’s actions to get the best performance out of the new employee in the shortest amount of time. Likewise, areas of potential conflict can be identified and dealt with accordingly.
- Additionally, assessments can be used for employee development to determine whether an employee’s current role is best suited for him or her. As is common in companies, workers’ roles and responsibilities change over time, creating the possibility for employees’ satisfaction and suitability to also shift. This also allows organizations to move workers into roles to make the most of their unique qualifications.
How An Effective Personality Test can Work For Your Organization
To see how you can apply a personality test to your hiring and employee development process, call Bartlett Consulting, Inc. at 608-825-3030 or email markb@profilexpert.com .
We will be happy to provide a complimentary personality test so you can experience how to use assessing emotional intelligence to not only reduce employee turnover, but improve productivity. We can also show the limitations of the Myers Briggs test relative to the expanded and in depth Drake P3 personality test.
Bartlett Consulting Inc., located in the Greater Madison Area in Wisconsin, has administered and designed tests to help a wide array of organizations test candidates, existing employees and create employee development programs in a variety of industries for decades, increasing profitability and reducing employee turnover. Contact us for your complimentary Drake P3 personality test today.