Psychometric tests are instruments for assessing an individual’s personality traits, IQ, aptitude, talents and behavioral style. Psychometric tests are widely used in career counseling and job placement and recruitment to correlate a person’s skills and personality with a meaningful job and career. Which will suit them the best and bring out their passion and strengths. The word ‘psych’ means mind and ‘metric’ means measurement so the word basically means measuring one’s mind.
Robert Sternberg defines intelligence as the “mental activity directed toward purposive adaptation to, selection, and shaping of real-world environments relevant to one’s life”. So measuring an individual’s intelligence helps us understand what they are capable of and how they’ll adapt and react to their surroundings.
A lot of personality tests like NEO- Five Factor Inventory. Which was developed by Costa and McCrae, MBTI assessment. which was developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Personality and Preference Inventory are also included in these tests. Personality can be defined as the distinctive differences in the patterns of thinking, behaving and feeling that people have. These tests help us understand and classify people in different classifications like introvert/extrovert or stable/neurotic according to how to act and adapt in various situations. Knowing these personality traits of an individual helps us analyze them and understand them better. The MBTI assessment consists of 16 distinctive personality types and people discover their personality type by taking a test.
Importance of Psychometric Tests for students:
We’ve all been at a point in our life where we don’t know what to do next. There are way too many options in front of us and it gets overwhelming. When we don’t know what decision to make next. Career planning is really important for young adults of age 14 to 18. Because that is the time when we choose the stream. Which we will follow in the future.
80% of the time, the career we choose for ourselves is influenced by the people around us. Career counseling and the environment. In which we live. It is vital for students who are in grades 8th-12th to receive the Best Career Counselling to help. Them understand their strengths and weaknesses.
These tests help the student gain a clear idea of what they want as it focuses on the student’s mental, emotional and psychological ability towards different areas. The answers given by the students are analyzed by career counsellors who then recommend the best course of action for the students. The test helps people gain an understanding of their skills, interests, passion, aptitude and personality. Which helps them to make the right career choice. As they analyze an individual’s capabilities based on a few simple questions. It helps the student to reach their potential.
Benefits of taking Psychometric Test:
- Due to the various areas covered by it, it brings out the passion and interest of the individual. Which may have been hidden before because he never got a chance to come out. Because of the variety of questions involved in these tests. A person’s hidden talent or passion can see the light.
- It helps both the student and the parents understand their child’s potential and affinity. The test tells us what we’re truly capable of doing.
- Just because we like a particular field doesn’t necessarily mean that we’ll be good at it. With the help of this test we can understand our strengths and weaknesses.
- Points of improvement may come out during the test and when we know where we lack. It is easy for us to bounce back and gain those skills.
- Career Counsellors provide the students with various options of careers available to the student based on the result of the test. The career options which are provided to the students are based on their mental ability, aptitude and personality. Any further guidance of how to achieve more skills. Which will help the student in the field they choose is also provided.
Mind Mirror(Career Counselling and Guidance) is one of leading counselling centers in India. Who specialize in counselling and psychometric tests. Unlike the various misleading tests which are available online. Our licensed counsellors provide you with the best career counselling in Jaipur and stand with you to help and guide you as you make one of the most important decisions of your life. Which will stay with you forever.
