After taking the test I got to see what the test results said about me. Of the five models that they gave me the first one was Extroversion. I would say I agree with this. In the facet section, it talks about the different makeup of this and how they came up with the results. It talks about being friendly and being gregarious which I later had to look up what meant. The second one was the agreeableness. I think this sums me up pretty well. I always like to find common grounds and try to avoid conflict when it isn’t needed. They said this one fit me 89. The third one was conscientiousness and I feel like this one fits very well. I always like to think of what my actions will cause other people. I think this one is important to me because I feel that people need to be more conscious of people’s feelings then fewer bad things will happen. My score for this one was an 86. The fourth one was neuroticism and I got a low 35 for this one. I feel these results should be lower and that I feel that I don’t have a lot of cravings at all. I remember putting very inaccurate for most of them so I am not sure how it says that I have a lot of cravings. For the fifth dimension, it was openness to experiment and I score lower than expected in this. I don’t believe this is accurate because I feel that I am pretty open to experiences and like going places to experience new things.
I think if an employer was looking at this information then they would gain information about me and some of my strengths. It would say I’m good working with people and am very friendly. I personally would not like it if an employer got this information because I feel that it is slightly off. This could be because I took the shorter version. I think if employers did start to look at this information is could be tricky because people could lie about there answers which could make them look better. This could show fake results that could cheat your way on getting hired. I do believe that this test could be beneficial for higher if done right. They should see how the person does on some of the important categories and make sure they still go through the interview process and make sure that they still talk with each person. I believe nothing beats getting a face to face conversation with each candidate so you can see how they are with talking to a person. I feel you learn more about them.
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I also had some areas where I didn’t entirely agree with the results but to really make this test more accurate I feel that the only correct way to go about that would be for there to be a lot more questions and for those questions to be more specific. I also felt the same way about how an employer would see some good qualities about me but overall I wouldn’t want them to see all of the results because there are some things that they may not like to see. Overall good job!