Interests and Personality Assessments Interests and personality assessments are often used to assist people in understanding themselves and in determining patterns of interests and behaviors. Select...

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INTERESTS AND PERSONALITY ASSESSMENTS
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A personality test is a way to measure individual personality constructs. It is an assessment involving techniques to assess the patterns of traits that people manifest across different situations. This type of tests help one understand themselves better by knowing their strengths and weakness.
An interest test reveals what an individual like to do and whether these likes match the job options or not (Asyhar et al., 2020). It helps in selecting career opportunity that matches interests. Strong Interest Inventory is a test conducted for career assessment. It is used to measure an individual’s interest so that they do not face any difficulty in deciding career choice.
It explores interest in six areas that are artistic, social, realistic, enterprising, investigative and conventional. This type of test may be used when hiring for a new candidate or in career counselling.
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As mentioned by Anwar (2017), personality tests play an important role when hiring an individual for the job as it helps the company in determining strengths and weaknesses of the prospective employee. Strong Interest Inventory test is used in the workplace when hiring the new candidates. It is a test that helps people match their interest with qualifications, career and leisure activities by determining individual’s preference in several areas to help them know what they enjoy doing with their work and their free...