Module – 5

Testing & Assessment

What is Employment testing?
• Employment testing is the practice of administering written, oral, or other tests as a means of
determining the suitability or desirability of a job applicant.

• Employment testing & selection procedures are aptitude tests and examinations that help a
business predict the success of a job candidate.
Explain the Test related to assessment of knowledge, skills
and abilities?
1. Test related to assessment of knowledge.
a) Certification.
b) Qualifications.
c) Workshops.
2. Test related to assessment of skills.
3. Test related to assessment of abilities.
Define Personality?
• Personality can be defined as those inner psychological characteristics that both determine
and reflect how a person responds to his or her environment.
Important methods of assess the personality:
1. Projective methods.

2. Personality inventories.

3. Interview method.

4. Case history method.

5. Observation Method.
Personality Tests:
• A personality test is a tool used to assess human personality. Personality testing and
assessment refer to techniques designed to measure the characteristic patterns of traits that
people exhibit across various situations.
Types of personality Tests:
1. Objective Tests.

2. Projective Tests.
The five- factor personality trait model: the big five.

1. Neuroticism.

2. Extraversion.

3. Openness to experience.

4. Agreeableness.

5. Conscientiousness.
Write a note on Birkman Method.
• The Birkman Method reveals four key perspectives of every person: Motivation, Self-
Perception, Social Perception, and Mindset. In understanding these perceptions and how they
influence each other, individuals can better understand the emotions and actions that drive
their life.
Behavioural qualities of Birkman Method.

1. Motivation.

2. Self-perception.

3. Social perception.

4. Mind-set.
MBTI: Myers Briggs type indicator.
• The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator is a self-report inventory designed to identify a
person's personality type, strengths, and preferences.

• The questionnaire was developed by Isabel Myers and her mother Katherine Briggs based
on their work with Carl Jung's theory of personality types.

• Today, the MBTI inventory is one of the most widely used psychological instruments in the
world.
Classifications of individuals according to MBTI.

1. Extraversion Versus introversion.

2. Sensing Versus intuition.

3. Thinking Versus Feeling.

4. Judging Versus perceiving.

Write a note on FIRO-B.
• Fundamental interpersonal relations orientation behaviour – (BIRO –B).

• The Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation–Behavior instrument was created in

the late 1950s by William Schutz, PhD.

• Schutz developed the FIRO-B theory to aid in the understanding and predicting of how
high-performance military teams would work together.

• Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation is a theory of interpersonal relations,

introduced by William Schutz in 1958. This theory mainly explains the interpersonal
interactions of a local group of people.
Benefits of FIRO-B.
1. Individual development.

2. Team building & development.

3. Selection & Placement.

4. Building relationship.

5. Conflict management.

6. Retention.
Honesty & Integrity Assessment.
Types of Integrity tests:
1. Overt integrity Tests.

2. Personality oriented Tests.

Non – Interviewing methods.
Graphology:
• graphology, inference of character from a
person's handwriting. The theory underlying
graphology is that handwriting is an expression
of personality; hence, a systematic analysis of the
way words and letters are formed can reveal traits
of personality.

• Graphology is the analysis of handwriting with

attempt to determine someone's personality traits.
No scientific evidence exists to support
graphology, and it is generally considered a
pseudoscience or scientifically questionable
practice.
Skills Assessment?

• Skill assessment tests are designed to help employers evaluate the skills of their job
candidates & employees.

• Skill assessment can help us to identify and hire in active learners.

Types of skills Assessment:
1. Hard Skills Assessment.

2. Work sample test.

3. Cognitive ability test.

4. Personality test.
Leadership Assessment:
• Leadership assessments are tools used to evaluate management skills.

• A leadership assessment may help company managers evaluate the leadership potential of
candidates applying to supervisory roles.

• Current supervisors and leaders may also take leadership assessments to analyse their own
management traits and strengths.
Games & Group activities for leadership assessment.
1. Games.
a) Tallest Tower.
b) Minefield.
c) Spotting the difference.
d) Office trivia.
e) Leadership Race.
f) Scavenger Hunt
2. Activities.
a) Situations.
b) Leader you admire.
c) 30 seconds on the clock.
d) Round table.
e) Back to back drawing.
f) Shipwreck.
Administration of Tests & Assessment:
Administration of tests in two ways:
1. Group Test.

2. Individual Test.
Key interviewer skills:
1. Knowledge about the job.
2. Training & Experience.
3. Listening attentively.
4. Emotional maturity.
5. Control of anger & aggression.
6. Empathetic attitude.
7. Ability to recognise the uniqueness.
8. stable personality.
9. Extrovert behaviour.
10. Physical stamina.
Thank you!!