Psychometric test is a scientific way of assessing a person’s ability or personality in a structured way. There are 3 main types of tests: ability, personality and interest (although both personality and interest are more like psychometric questionnaires). Some tests are used by employers to help them in their recruitment process while other tests can help people with career decision making.

Psychometric tests are designed to produce a quantitative assessment of one or more psychological attributes like reasoning ability, interests, propensity, and disposition, etc.

Psychometric tests give clear picture of personality traits, a person’s perception, tendency and view towards different circumstances. It reveals ability and planning skills and visionary skills as well. It measures strength of a person and his ability to lead.

• Psychometric tests enable one to select the right candidate(s), who in turn would be instrumental in enhancing the productivity of the company;
• For being cost effective - Psychometric test prevents wrong hiring of the candidate(s) & HR department very well knows the cost attached to the bad hire;
• These assessment tools will make the employer identify the right candidate for the right position;
• For future planning – The results can be saved in data base for the future development and improvement of an individual, as the tests cover all the major aspects of an individual in the context of personal feelings, professional attitude and motives;
• For measuring the leadership qualities of a person;
• For taking the decision at the time of promotion;
• Psychometric test will also give a clear view about what training the staff requires like professionalism, integrity, confidence building, effective communication skills etc., which will benefit the company;
• For getting the details of all important aspects in relation with the personality, interest, quality, ability etc of the candidate(s);
• Psychometric tests are one of the best assessment tools in this fast moving world. It is being widely used in all the domains - BPOs, Manufacturing Companies, Service Industry, Career Counselling, Banking, Retail, Telecom, FMCG etc.
• For getting the psychological assessment of the candidate - Psychometric tests reveal the attitude and approach of the candidate(s). As it is not easy to judge certain personality traits, like Temperament, motivation, confidence, reliability etc. even after meeting candidate(s) number of times. Here comes the role of the Psychometric tests - as it shows the psychological view of the candidate
• For faster results – As these test consume less time (15 to 45 minutes) and the results are available within maximum 48/24 hours.

a) 16PF (Personality Factors) Test (Even known as 15 Trait Test): All the 16 personality factors are considered in relation with the general view of personality. It reveals the leadership quality, reasoning, stress tolerance, change adoptability, behavior, motivations, and values.

This test focuses different major management dimensions like Decision making, Leadership style, Initiative, Personal adjustment.

b) Leadership Test: The leadership test gives idea about whether the person is capable enough to lead and assign the authority. Is he really responsible or a casual person? The right degree of delegation of authority brings balance in the execution of the different projects in the company. The dynamic and energetic attitude of a person makes him/her a leader, who is liable for his/her deeds. Co-operative, judicious and devotion are also covered in this test results.

The test result shows the degree till which a person can be empowered and allowed to lead or not.

c) Temperament Test: Temperament test puts stress on person's emotional and sensible factors as well and considers intuition and rationalism and his/her implication at work.

Ability of taking initiative, dominating others or not, involvement, ambition, willingness to work in group or individualism are other aspects covered by temperament test.

d) Recruitment Personality Test: Recruitment Personality Assessment tool helps you to identify strengths, weaknesses, competencies and positive factors of an individual.

This test plays very vital role as it helps to avoid the costly mistake of wrong hiring