Over 1 million people have taken the PeopleMaps personality test and I was wondering why. I thought I would summarise some of the reasons here and explain what a personality test is in the process.

People do personality tests when they are thinking about their careers as often they will have to complete one as part [...]

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Figures vary on how common workplace personality profiling is, depending on where you look. We use the statistic provided by ere.com from their 2007 survey, which shows that over 65% of employers use “personality measures” as part of their employee screening and assessment toolkit.
We wondered if these figures pan out when asking jobseekers about [...]

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Personality profiling needn’t be expensive, but sadly many professional providers feel they need to charge premium prices. PeopleMaps decided at the outset to offer affordable online profiling to everyone, anywhere because we truly believe the world can be a better place when we understand more about ourselves and others.
And because our reports are written in [...]

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People are complex The environment and other people working with them could influence behaviour change on a regular basis. Behaviour has reasons, not causes and if we understand the reasons why, in most areas will be more committed.
Psychological type gives a snap shot of the preferred behaviour that comes almost unconsciously to most people. This [...]

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Validity is concerned with the extent to which an assessment instrument actually measures what it is designed to measure. It implies comparison between the assessments and some external criteria. Reliability is concerned with the consistency of assessments.
PeopleMaps is a Jungian profile designed to measure personality. The measures used are Jung’s rational and irrational preference scales, [...]

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The theory underpinning PeopleMaps comes from the work of Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist who believed every individual was unique. His theory focuses on the cognitive aspects of personality i.e. how people think; take on board information to make their decisions and sense of the world.
He created categories of psychological type through a combination of [...]

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Ever since profiling came into the business domain, it has been obscured in smoke and mirrors. It has been the classic case of “take the watch off the client and tell them what time it says”. Don’t get me wrong - there is a role for consultants and training, but it should be in [...]

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