The Big Five Personality Dimensions
In recent years, the many personality dimensions have been distilled into a list of factors known as the Big Five.12 The Big Five personality dimensions are (1) extroversion, (2) agreeableness, (3) conscientiousness, (4) emotional stability, and (5) openness to experience.
Extroversion: How outgoing, talkative, sociable, and assertive a person is.
Agreeableness: How trusting, good-natured, cooperative, and soft-hearted someone is.
Conscientiousness: How dependable, responsible, achievement-oriented, and persistent someone is.
Emotional stability: How relaxed, secure, and unworried a person is.
Openness to experience: How intellectual, imaginative, curious, and broad-minded someone is.
Pre-employment psychometric testing, which includes personality testing, has grown into an industry estimated to be worth $2 billion a year. This has been fueled by employers’ increased desire to identify candidates in all fields with the career readiness skills they seek.13 Companies are applying these assessments “not only to make more informed decisions when employing new people, but also to gauge existing employees’ performance and ability as well as a tool for personal development and growth,” says Joanne Bondin, director of MISCO, Malta’s leading knowledge-based independent consulting firm.14 Over 75% of Fortune 500 companies use these tests at different stages of the recruitment process, believing that hiring decisions will be more accurate and predictive of high performers.15 But are they? Research finds the following:
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