Chapter 8 Web Links

Personality and individual differences

Job descriptions and person specifications

See page 268 of the book.

The following link from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, a UK Government ministry, gives advice on putting together documents such as job descriptions and person specifications. It includes templates for and examples of these documents:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/higher-education/access-to-professions/prg/recruitment-step-by-step/defining-the-job

Keirsey’s temperament sorter

See page 275 of the book.

The following link is to a section of the Keirsey website where the 16 Myers-Briggs groupings are analysed in terms of their main characteristics, famous people with that personality type, and linked to jobs appropriate for that personality type:
http://www.keirsey.com/4temps/overview_temperaments.asp

 

Big personality test

See page 278 of the book.

The big personality test was a UK-wide personality test carried out by the BBC, and based in the OCEAN scale. A description of the test can be found at:

https://www.peoplemaps.com/bbc-big-personality-test-child-of-our-time/

A dataset of the results can be found at:

https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7656#!/details

 

Online personality tests
 
See page 280 of the book.

Many personality tests, such as Myers-Briggs and Keirsey, are commercial products which are expensive to purchase and administer. There are, however, some shorter versions of the tests which can be accessed online for free:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

The HumanMetrics Jung Typology Test™ is a version of the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory test, and will give you your four-letter score.

Meanwhile, some example questions from the McDonald’s Australia personality test mentioned on page 280 can be found at:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/could-you-pass-ridiculously-intrusive-5524546

 

Artificial intelligence and big data in recruitment and selection

See page 290

This radio broadcast investigates the use of data and artificial intelligence in recruitment and selection:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000462k

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