PRE EMPLOYMENT TESTING

APPROACH TO PERSONALITY TESTING

- One member of the Hire Success Development Team is a Medical Doctor who contributed considerably to the unique approach in which was taken in assessing individual personalities. As a Medical Doctor, he was trained to accurately diagnose illnesses and medical problems based on evaluation of patient "symptoms" and other medical tests. Often, "symptoms" are provided exclusively by the patient and verified by other tests.

If a Medical Doctor were to have a patient describe how 100 of the most common symptoms were affecting them at any given time, the Doctor would normally have a very good idea what disease or problem the patient might be suffering from. The Doctor would ask more questions of the patient and possibly run additional tests to verify his or her diagnosis.

An applicant is given 100 Adjectives, (descriptive words describing various aspects of their Personality), and asked to describe the "degree" of which that word or phrase applies to them AT WORK. They simply answer with the number "1" if the word strongly describes them or "5" if it doesn't describe them at all. They can also use the values 2-4 to describe some degree of applicability in between.

In our research, studies have proven that the 5 point (1-5) evaluation choice provides the most ACCURATE feedback compared to 3 choices or even 7 or more choices. This is the reason Hire Success chose the 5 point evaluation. Once the Applicant has provided the answers to these 100 common personality characteristics, the Hire Success system evaluates this information using some of the same techniques and algorithms often found in Medical Diagnostic Expert Systems.

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