"Personality tests" are becoming more and more popular in recruitment activities and job fairs.
This is a prominent activity in the 2023 Career and Employment Digital Transformation Festival organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Student Support Center, Ho Chi Minh City Youth Employment Service Center, Foreign Affairs and International Conference Service Center, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Foreign Affairs in coordination with Saigon University last weekend.
The Digital Transformation Career and Employment Day at Saigon University offers 5,000 job vacancies (Photo: HN).
With the participation of 35 businesses, providing 5,000 recruitment positions, young employees about to enter the labor market have the opportunity to test, orient their careers, experience the actual interview process at businesses, and receive feedback from HR experts after the interview process.
Personality testing activities within the program help young candidates assess their abilities and personalities, thereby finding their strengths and weaknesses to position themselves and plan the most suitable career and job orientation.
Associate Professor Pham Hoang Quan, President of Saigon University, emphasized that young human resources need to be equipped with basic knowledge about digital transformation, acquire and accumulate useful skills and experiences during the learning and training process, and need to understand themselves to access suitable career opportunities.
In addition, businesses also need the opportunity to access human resources that have been and are being trained by schools through information channels, meeting between supply and demand. Thereby, finding a common voice between a human resource supplier and a user.
Personality tests are becoming more and more popular in life. Especially in the labor market, besides ability, many businesses are interested in personality to determine whether the candidate is suitable for the job requirements and the culture of the business.
At the festival, there was a program to test the personality of job seekers (Photo: HN).
According to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, 22% of HR professionals use personality tests to assess candidates. These tests provide a more comprehensive assessment of a candidate’s emotional intelligence as well as cognitive and thinking skills.
In the field of human resource management, there are currently many types of personality tests used in recruitment. Testing candidate personality is considered to have many benefits such as helping businesses recruit more effectively, increasing the ability to retain employees and reducing related costs, detecting candidates' strengths and weaknesses, increasing work efficiency...
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