Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Interest tests

These are meant to find how a person in tests compare with the interests of successful people in a specific job. These tests show the areas of work in which a person is most interested. The basic idea behind the use of interests tests is that people are most likely to be successful in jobs they like. 

These tests could be used as effective selections tools. Obviously if you can select people whose interests are roughly the same as those of successful investments by using, say the Strong-Campbell inventory, in the jobs for which you are recruiting, it is more likely that the applicants will be more successful in their new jobs. 

The chief problem with using the interest tests for selection purposes is that responses to the questions are not always sincere.