One area of controversy in the study of personality tests is how well you can accurately assess personalities of potential team or group members. According to one researcher, Stretch (2016), these tests tell us how we function as well as how others function. Using personality test results, managers can build a team of people with the characteristics they think will work well together. Read more about the use of personality tests as tools for team member selection at https://zapier.com/blog/personality-tests/.
For your first post, in a response of at least 250 words (there is a word counter in the text box), address the following items:
Identify a personality test that you have not taken yet in this course. (You can use the link provided in your textbook, http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/, to take a personality test or scroll down on this link to the section with links to multiple personality tests: https://zapier.com/blog/personality-tests/.
Take one of the tests and then compare your results with another test of your choice.
What characteristics are measured in the personality tests you have taken?
Next, identify a third personality characteristics test and discuss the differences in its areas of measurement with the new test you took for this discussion assignment.
Also, provide the link to the test from the text or the one you found in case any of your classmates want to use it.