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Pro-Serve are offering you the chance to create your own behavioural profile. This will allow you to understand the information an employer will be looking at if you are asked to complete a psychometric test as part of an application. A psychometric profile can also be an excellent addition to your CV.
There are many forms of psychometric analysis. Pro-Serve uses the internationally recognised DISC version. Prices start at £19 + VAT.
What does Disc Measure?
DISC measures the four factors of an individual’s behaviour: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance. They can be characterised as Assertiveness, Steadiness, Patience and Structure.
DISC also interprets the relationships between these factors. For example, a highly dominant person with a high level of influence will behave quite differently to an equally dominant individual with a low level of influence.
The factors combine like this to generate (theoretically) around one million different profiles.
Using this information, DISC can be used to describe a person’s general working style, their motivations and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses, and some of the basic assumptions they make about other people. It can also go far in helping to predict how a person will react or perform in various circumstances.
As you will see from the following quote, psychometric testing is fast becoming an integral part of the recruitment process.
“It has been estimated that some 70% of UK organisations test their workforce either for personality or ability before making a job offer or conferring a promotion.”
- Personnel Today Magazine
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