What are psychometric tools?
Psychometric tools are questionnaires or tests that help businesses to select the right people, facilitate individual and team development, and increase organisational effectiveness. In the main, they fall into the following categories: • Personality: powerful methods of predicting how someone will typically behave. • Ability: measure aptitudes such as how someone will perform when solving problems or reasoning with verbal information; many measure potential rather than current level of knowledge. • Career interests: help to identify the types of work to which someone would be suited. • 360-degree feedback: gather feedback on an individual’s performance or personal attributes from a range of sources, from juniors to superiors. A psychometric tool should be: • Objective: the results obtained from it are not influenced by the administrator’s personal preferences or biases. • Standardised: it is administered and scored according to standard procedures; people’s scores on the test are comp
