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Personality as a Prediction of Performance

An article in Professional Remodeler magazine called "Hire With Personality" discusses the use of personality profile tests such as Myers-Briggs, DiSC or Predictive Index when it comes to hiring people.

It's funny how much people in the construction industry get caught up in technical interviews when two of the biggest factors that will predict long-term success are personality and raw intelligence.

We were working with a client the other day as part of our Emerging Contractor Development (ECD) program and the topic was on recruiting. They were very focused on the techical aspects of the job but when we got down to rating their team and picked all the 'A' players the common traits they had were personality and intelligence while their actual experience varied greatly and compared equally to other people on the team who were 'C' players.

This highlighted how important personality and intelligence were to building their team and they set out changing the advertising and interview process to focus more heavily on these areas.

Posted by David on February 24, 2007 08:49 AM|Permalink

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