For the last few years, companies were instituting hiring processes that included a number of best practices, but were avoiding the use of tools, such as personality assessments, to assist them in identifying the best candidates. Today, we are seeing a significant increase in the use of particularly effective personality assessments to enable hiring managers to learn more about the candidate’s natural motivation and talents before they make the hiring decision.
The reasons were varied as to why personality assessments became less used. I believe that one reason was that we saw too much litigation from unhappy and unsuccessful candidates. As a result, employers began to shy away from using any tool that could significantly differentiate one person from another. Read more…
