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Personality Assessment In Personnel Recruitment

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CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter mainly discuss about the use of personality assessment in personnel recruitment in order to improve the hiring decision. There are two dominants themes of the research questions which include the hiring problem in today world, the research studies in personality as well as the use of current technologies in personality assessment as well. To discuss in more details, these studies explain about the theory of the human behavior prediction and it also discusses how the different personality skills can match with the different job positions. 2.2 HIRING PROBLEM IN TODAY WORLD Hiring wrong employees can have a very huge impact for almost all the businesses in this world. It means …show more content…

The reasons can include the recruiters who make hiring decision based on their own feelings and perceptions , great resume that give the wrong information to the recruiters, fatigue that causes the recruiters to make wrong decision, recruiters bias that affect the hiring process, and also the interviewees who cheat in the personality test. (Rubin) also stated that the distortions of the information can be one of the most important reasons of why the hiring managers today make bad hiring decisions. This is because the hiring managers recruit the person without realizing him or her actually give the inaccurate information on their resumes or application forms (Rubin). Not only this, there are also many books in the market that actually teaches the candidates to distort information during the interview session by giving untrue answers to different interview questions. In this case, distortions of information increase the possibility of hiring wrong employees. Besides, (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008) conducted another study on hiring decisions and it stated that the employers always tend to evaluate the applicants based on their biased and stereotypical information about different races and …show more content…

The standard size of letters is the one with the benchmark of 3mm and full height of 9mm. From the figure below (Figure 2.7), there are three zones which are upper zone, middle zone and lower zone. Those handwritings with the size which is less than the normal size is small handwriting and those with larger size is large handwriting. Larger handwriting in Figure 2.8 indicates that he or she is extrovert who has a high level of confidence (Cardenas). Besides, it also indicates that the person is superior and arrogant and has a high demand for attention (Cardenas). Small writing in Figure 2.9 represents the personality traits of respectful, shyness, having a deep thinkings, high level of tolerance and also the high ability to concentrate

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