Our group consist of Laneika Mattress-Musalini, Paula Williams and Kelly Collins We decided to do our assessment on “THE BF5 PERSONALITY TEST”
The BF5 Personality Test is a product of Central Test located at www.us.centraltest.com It measures 5 fundamental personality dimensions (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience) It is based on the internationally recognized BIG 5 FACTOR MODEL of PERSONALITY It takes approximately 7 minutes to complete and it highlights dominant personality traits The test can be used at all levels within an organization
The BF5 is intended to be taken by people ages 18 and up It is mostly used for recruitment and orientation There are 15 sets of 4 statements ranked 1 to 4 It also monitors social desirability The BF5 is available in English, French, Spanish, German and Dutch The objective of the test is to identify an individual’s foremost personality traits It’s very inexpensive, costing $15 or 15 credits per test. $1 (USD) is equal to 1 credit
The test is accessible online at www.us.centraltest.com This product is very cost effective, again, costing only $15 per test. Central Test offers a 40% discount to organizations ordering in bulk and Test & results can be personalized with a company logo, brand name and URL For reliability purposes, regular assessments are performed Measures of reliability include: behavioral science which measures the test taker’s psychological and physical state; environmental factors; internal consistency reliability; and test-retest reliability
The test is also assessed for validity Its validity is assessed to show a link between test performance and job performance 3 different types of validity are used: Criterion-related validity, Content-related validity, and Construct-related validity The test can be used in several different countries making it very adaptable The format is very simple. It is a questionnaire with 15 sets of 4 statements The response for each statement is ranked 1 to 4
Our group reconstructed the BF5 Personality test to one that also measures the Big 5 Factors It consist of 25 statements with response for each ranked 1 to 5 It can be altered to conform to a particular job within our organization It is cost effective and accessible (it’s created and administered in-house; it can be taken with pen/paper, online or with assistance for vision/reading impaired users It is a very simple format and it is to be used in conjunction with other hiring practices
Here you will see the instrument that we constructed
Here, the scoring details are listed: A score between 14 and 19 for the extroversion statements may indicate an increased probability of job satisfaction and productivity A score between 8 and 13 for statements pertaining to agreeableness may indicate that one’s compassionate and cooperative Conscientiousness statements should have a score between 17 and 22 to indicate that an applicant is able to work closely with other employees in the same work space A score of 20 to 25 may indicate emotional stability and increased productivity for neuroticism and A score of 16 to 23 for openness to experience may indicate intellect, job satisfaction and high productivity
To conclude, if Clemson University decided to construct a personality test supplement to be used during hiring, it could lead to employee retention, employee job satisfaction and higher productivity This method would be cost effective and accessible to its users It can be transformed to conform to departmental hiring needs and It should be used in relation to interviewing and competency/skills tests
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