职业性格测试 你了解几分.docx

职业性格测试 你了解几分？《华人街日报》 True or False: These Tests Can Tell if You Are Right for This Job An applicants handshake may be crucial at a job interview. But a personality test can tell a company whats behind that handshake. 在求职面试中，应聘者在握手时的表现或许至关重要。不过，能让企业了解到握手背后的真实情况的则是性格测试。 Companies as varied as electronics retailer HHGregg Inc., rental-car agency Avis Budget Group Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. all use personality tests to help assess job applicants for conscientiousness, extroversion or other traits that may be useful in forging a successful career─or, alternatively, derail one. 电子产品零售商HHGregg、汽车租赁企业Avis Budget Group集团以及通信公司Sprint Nextel等各类企业都在采用性格测试来考察求职者的责任心、外向性格以及其他可能有助于造就成功职业生涯（亦或毁掉职业生涯）的性格特征。 The questions are rarely straightforward, and neither are the answers. Psychology is involved, after all. Applicants may try to give answers they think the company wants to hear, and arent likely to admit to character flaws or bad behavior. So there can be a great deal of opacity regarding what the questions are even measuring, psychologists say. 此类测试题极少直截了当，其答案也是如此，毕竟其中涉及到了心理学。应聘者可能会试图给出他们认为企业想听到的回答，不大可能会承认自己的性格缺陷或不良行为。许多心理学家认为，其后果是此类测试题所测试到的东西还非常不明确。 Moreover, test makers say a single answer holds little meaning in its own right and must be weighed alongside a series of other responses. For the best predictive results, companies often find out what traits their high performers display, and then test for those characteristics. 此外，出题者也指出，单单一个回答本身并没有什么意义，必须把它与其他一系列回答放在一起考量。为了实现最佳的预测结果，企业常常找出其表现优异的应聘者表现出了什么性格特征，然后对这些特征进行测试。 Here is a sampling of personality-test questions, what psychologists and test designers say about what each question is really looking for, and how the range of possible responses could be interpreted. 下文介绍了一些性格测试的样题、心理学家与试题设计者对各测试题实际要考察的是什么、受试者的回答会如何被阐释。 1. On television, I usually prefer watching an action movie than a program about art. 1.