Title: (Optional) Identify employment tests and personality profiles.
Course: Marketing (12164) > Section: Developing a Career

Identification should include

- the types of employment tests commonly administered by employers
- the types of personality profiles commonly used by businesses
- the purposes of employment tests and personality profiles
- examples of sample tests (e.g., employment, personality, drug).

Process/Skill Questions:

- What qualities does an employer seek to identify from the results of an employment test?
- How might a person prepare for an employment test?
- What information can a personality profile provide? Why do employers sometimes administer personality profiles to potential employees?
- What are the advantages of the different types of pre-employment/personality tests?
- What recourse does a candidate for employment have if he/she feels they were denied a position based on the results of a test?
- When is the administration of a pre-employment test not legal?