Why is an understanding of personality relevant to the workplace?
Practitioners may be asked this question by respondents who are cynical about the ability of a psychometric to accurately represent them. Often, job candidates may have had bad experiences of being assessed in this way, and need reassurance that they are not being ‘trapped’ or ‘tricked’ by the process. In fact, understanding your own and others’ personality can lie at the core of feeling happy and fulfilled in your work. Self-awareness and the motivation to empathise with others can be the trigger for concrete improvement in the quality of working relationships and in overall performance and productivity. Done in an ethical and credible way, psychometric assessment hits at the heart of who you are, which couldn’t be more relevant to the place where you spend so much of your life – at work.
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