[troydavis]

Although I wouldn’t work for a company which blindly made hiring decisions based on a profile, the approach in this blog post would make the company more attractive: https://www.xaprb.com/blog/personality-assessments-hiring/

Excerpts:

> The assessments are never really correct, so a vital step is reviewing the report with the candidate

…

> How the candidate reacts to the report; which things they think are true or false and why; which things they engage with and which they skip over; those are all revealing.

[wjossey]

I cofounded a company last year, and our focus is on facilitating 360 reviews / annual reviews for companies. The format of our assessments are fairly “psychometric”, but not because we use it to profile someone, but because it helps facilitate written and verbal feedback from your peers and manager. The excerpts you highlighted match our findings, and is a big reason why we run workshops as a part of our process (so we can explain how the information is used).

This is the same way I approached technical interviews when I was doing a lot of hiring. I didn’t usually care a lot about how someone answered a question, but rather how they reasoned about that answer.

[vfulco2]

Although not in the same "domain", I have had good results using viainstitute.org's character strengths tests to better understand my professional and academic clients before creating/editing their resumes, linkedin profiles and interview coaching. Its been around awhile and focuses on what people should do more of. YMMV.

[sho]

Thanks for the link. That does look like a much more thoughtful use of the technique than I had anticipated - talking about the result afterwards is a good idea. I had been thinking their more common use was indeed to blindly discard candidates based on some nonsense quiz, totally ignoring the creativity and passion the candidate could have otherwise brought to the team.

I've actually done a couple of these tests, although for the life of me I can't remember in what context, and thought them ridiculously simplistic and obviously gameable. Now I'm curious to try some of the more subtle ones the author alludes to.