Psychometric tests or questionnaires are tools used in job selection and career planning / development to assess ability, aptitude, aspects of personality, motivation or interests.
Psychometric tests can be divided broadly into three categories:
These measure your ability in a specific area such as numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning, logical reasoning or abstract reasoning. Employers use these to test your ability in a job-relevant area in order to assess your potential for that job.
These online or paper based tests are done under strict administration and time conditions and the questions have definite right and wrong answers. They are common in the recruitment process for graduate jobs, particularly with larger employers.
These have no right or wrong answers and are not strictly timed. They assess aspects of personality such as typical behaviour, preferences, interests and motivations. Recruiters may use them to gain additional information about your suitability and “fit” for a job. They can also be used in career planning and career development to help you understand more about yourself.
Everyone learns in a different way and understanding the way you learn best will affect the career you prefer as well as your academic work. Questionnaires help you to assess your preferred learning style.
At the Careers and Employability Centre we've online tests available to students, staff and graduates to help you understand more about:
It is not necessary to complete all the individual assessments; you can select the ones relevant to you and you can complete them at a time convenient to you.
You will need to use our interactive careers service to send your full name, degree subject and year of graduation and we will then send details of how to access the assessments.
If you have a disability and would have trouble accessing the online tests please contact us (for example: extra time cannot be given within the online system). We can arrange for you to take the tests in paper and pencil format in the Careers and Employability Centre.
If you would like to comment on the psychometric tests that we offer students via Web CT, please contact us through the interactive careers service.
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Need help? Talk to us
There are Careers Advisers qualified to advise on psychometric testing issues who will be happy to help answer your questions. Contact us via our interactive careers service.
