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Employers may use the following:  \nAptitude tests measure skills and abilities. These can include numerical, verbal, logical and abstract reasoning. Numerical and verbal reasoning are most commonly tested.  \nPersonality assessments measure various innate personal characteristics. Examples include:  \n• Myers Briggs Traits Inventory (MBTI), based on Carl Jung’s psychological types-ways in which people perceive their world. These are sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling.  \n• The OPQ 32 by SHL is one of the most common personality questionnaires used in recruitment and explores candidates’ motives and character, individual preferences, perceived strengths and weaknesses.  \n• Cattell’s 16PF which measures 16 personality factors. Personality assessments of this nature generally include the ‘big 5’ factors-extraversion, openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness and agreeableness.  \nSituational judgement and situational strengths tests. SJT’s present real life work scenarios to test how you resolve a particular situation and the behaviour you demonstrate. With SJT’sthe employer identifies particular skills or strengths that are important in the role and devises situational based scenarios to see if you demonstrate those skills and strengths in your answers. Examples include:  \n• Capp Situational Strengths Test  \n• Saville Consulting Work Strengths  \nGamifcation  \nGamification, or games-based assessment, involves using games-based tools to assess candidates for different competencies and personality traits. It’s being used in a range of sectorsand its use is growing as employers see it as a new way of engaging with their potential workforce. Gamification is often used alongside other methods of assessment in the early ‘screening’ stages of the application process. The assessments record behaviours, choices and decision-making rather than skills or experience. Examples of game based assessments: Arctic Shores Skyrise City, Firefly Freedom, Cosmic Cadet  \nGamification Frequently Asked Questions:  \n• Do I have to be a gamer? No, the tests don’t require any ‘gaming’ skill to complete; they are measuring personality. They tend to be simple enough to make sure everyone has an equal chance of performing well, therefore are considered to be inclusive methods of assessment.  \n• Do I really have to take it seriously? Yes, it’s part of the assessment process for a very real job, so make sure you focus and complete the assessment somewhere quiet with no distractions in order to ensure your performance reflects the real you.  \n• How can I prepare? Read the instructions carefully to make sure you understand the rules. You’re unlikely to be able to repeat the test.  \n• Should I play the game in the way I think they want me to? Be honest and answer instinctively. If you’re focusing on demonstrating what you think they want to see, this will show hesitation and affect your results.  \nUpdated: Nov 18/HF/v3  \n• I’ve done one of these before so I know how to play this one…Caution! The games are usually bespoke to a particular employer or role. Treat it as a new experience as they may be assessing different things.  \nWhat tests do employers use and why?  \nEmployers use aptitude and personality assessments in recruitment and staff development. Some wellknown firms operating and supplying psychometric instruments in the UK include SHL, OPP, Kenexa, Saville Consulting and Profiling for Success. Psychometric tests used in graduate recruitment will generally be ‘normed’ against a representative sample of an undergraduate/ graduate population.  \nTests from different test publishers vary in their level of difficulty. Practice questions are often easier than the ones you would encounter in the real test. 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