Personality Test

A psychometric instrument that attempts to quantify traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion, emotional stability, or risk tolerance. Personality tests were introduced in industry during and after World War I to screen for "maladjusted" workers, and are now the most widespread form of digitized hiring assessment — used by an estimated 76% of U.S. employers with more than 100 employees. They have long been criticised for pathologising mental-health and neurodivergent traits and for failing to predict job performance, and are a key vector through which disabled candidates are screened out at the earliest hiring stages.