How to Evaluate Yourself and Your Career With a Personality Test

Personality tests are used to gauge an individual’s personality traits. Some tests are based on self-reporting, while others are projective in nature, assessing both conscious and unconscious aspects of personality. A personality test is often designed to measure the function of the frontal lobe, one of the four main hemispheres of the brain, which is responsible for higher order executive functions and motor functions.

The five-factor model of personality was created in the 1920s by psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, who studied human behavior and psychological traits.… Read more