personality test

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noun Psychology.

an instrument, as a questionnaire or series of standardized tasks, used to measure personality characteristics or to discover personality disorders.

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Origin of personality test

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby personality test

personalism, personality, personality cult, personality disorder, personality inventory, personality test, personality type, personalization, personalize, personalized medicine, personal liberty

How to use personality test in a sentence

Devaux is looking for a job, and we asked her to complete a trial of a 90-second personality test, which assesses candidates on the Big Five personality traits.
Looking for work? Here’s how to write a résumé that an AI will love.|Sheridan Wall, Hilke Schellmann|August 4, 2021|MIT Technology Review
So it’s something that they should look out for in a personality test and to take their time.
Podcast: Beating the AI hiring machines|Anthony Green|August 4, 2021|MIT Technology Review
That’s why many personality tests, such as the Big Five, give people options from which to choose.
We tested AI interview tools. Here’s what we found.|Sheridan Wall, Hilke Schellmann|July 7, 2021|MIT Technology Review
They’ve tried everything from stopwatches and personality tests to machine-learning algorithms and pipetting robots.
Fast forward|Cara Giaimo, SM ’15|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review

More recently, he asked everyone in the lab to take personality tests, so they could learn to build on each other’s strengths and work together better.
Fast forward|Cara Giaimo, SM ’15|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review