Feeling overwhelmed by hundreds of available personality tests on the internet? Well, don’t worry, we have summarised all the available free online personality tests for you.

Each of the personality tests has its own uniqueness which is designed for different purposes. That’s why not every personality test will satisfy your needs. For example, those who want to take a personality test to understand their emotional aspects should take the Enneagram Test instead of HIGH5 Test.

Yeah.

I got your quizzical look for those two terms.

Fret not.

In this article, we will give you the guidance of what personality test you should take based on your needs:

9 free personality tests you can take online:

1. DiSC Personality Test
2. Big Five Personality Test
3. Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
4. Enneagram Test
5. 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF)
6. HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (HEXACO-PI-R)
7. Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI)
8. True Colors Test
9. HIGH5 Test

1. DiSC Personality Test by 123test.com

The DiSC is a personality test that is focused on workplace-related traits such as teamwork, communication, and productivity. Therefore, this test is commonly used during the job selection process to predict your potential performance in the company and how well you will fit yourself with the company culture and your colleagues.

Here are the definitions of the four main personality profiles described by DiSC model:

• Dominance: Measures how you deal with problems, control situations and assert yourself.
• Influence: Measures how you deal with people, communicate and relate to others.
• Steadiness: Measures your temperament, i.e., patience, persistence, and thoughtfulness.
• Conscientiousness: Measures the way you organize your activity, procedures and responsibilities.

The DiSC test at 123test.com contains 28 groups of four statements. You need to choose one statement that suits you the most and one statement that least represents you for each group. The results of the test will give you the percentage for each DiSC factors.

Perfect for: Job-seeker who wants to be familiar with the test before the selection process.

Also read: How Personality Test can Boost Your Career

2. Big Five Personality Test by 9cv9.com and IBM Watson

The Big Five Personality Test is arguably the most widely accepted personality theory in the scientific community and also the most reliable psychological model to measure personality. Even though it is not as popular as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), it is believed to be the most scientific way to conceptualise the differences between people.

The Big Five Personality Test helps you to understand why people see, react and behave differently during the same situation. What makes Big Five Personality Test more scientifically validated is it describes people in terms of traits rather than by grouping into specific categories.

The traits measured by the Big Five Personality Test are:

• Openness: Measures intellectual curiosity, and willingness to experience new things or ideas.
• Conscientiousness: Measures self-discipline, determination, and goal orientation.
• Extraversion: Measures willingness to interact with others.
• Agreeableness: Measures prioritization between other people’s needs and self needs.
• Neuroticism: Measures the way you react during a tough time.

The test provided by 9cv9.com is unique since you don’t need to do a questionnaire to obtain your result.

Instead, you only need to upload any kind of written texts, which can be your cover letter (when applying to a job) or written posts from your Twitter or Facebook account.

For Twitter and Facebook, you have to connect to them and allow 9cv9 the permission to read your written posts on those media platform. Thereafter, using IBM Watson‘s Artificial Intelligence linguistic analytics, it will output your personality result.

Human is naturally self-defensive so for other existing questionnaire type of personality tests, the participant might give a socially desirable answer instead of the true answer when answering the assessment.

With 9cv9.com‘s Big Five Personality Test system, the chance of this kind of bias is minimized.

Perfect for: First-timer and those who want to scientifically know their personality characteristics.

3. Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) by 16personalities.com

Myers Briggs Type Indicator is probably the most widely-known personality test on this list. The test has been taken by over 335 million people at 16personalities.com. The MBTI is based on the Jung Personality Test and was developed by Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers to be more understandable and useful in people’s lives.

From your interaction result among the preferences, the test identifies 16 distinctive personalities, which are the combination of these four aspects:

• Energy: Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)
• Information: Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)
• Decision: Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
• Structure: Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)

After completing 52 questions at 16personalities.com, you will get a comprehensive explanation about your personality type in terms of its strength & weakness, romantic relationship, friendships, parenthood, career paths and workplace habits.

Furthermore, the test result also shows celebrities or movie characters who have the same personality types with you to help you better relate to your result. For example, Jon Snow from Game of Thrones has INFJ personality.

Once you have obtained your result, you can also copy your personality link and paste it at 9cv9 personalities tab.

When you paste your personality link there, the system will extract your personality. You can also manually input your personality type into the 9cv9 system. Once done, your personality can be used for your job searching process.

Perfect for: First-timer and those who want to know their personality characteristics.

Also read: ATS-Friendly Resume: What Is It and How to Make One?

4. Enneagram Test by truity.com

Enneagram is an emotion-centered personality test that describes your way of interpreting the world and managing your emotions. The name Enneagram comes from the Greek, which means nine (Ennea) and drawn or written (Gramma). Therefore, Enneagram classifies people into 9 types, each with its own driving force, fears, and internal dynamics.

After completing the test at truity.com, you will get the score for all 9 Enneagram personality types and you will know which one from these personality types suits you the most.

For each type of Enneagram personalities, truity.com gives you a further explanation about it and describes it in different health levels. For example, a healthy Type 1 is a perfectionist who seeks ways to improve the situation, and still accept the dynamic of life as it is. While an unhealthy Type 1 is a perfectionist who is out of control with unrealistic expectations and is focused on irrelevant factors.

Understanding your Enneagram type can help you approach situations more effectively, expand your perspective, understand why you behave the way you do and how you react to stressful condition.

Perfect for: Those who wants to understand more about their emotional aspect.

5. 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) by openpsychometrics.org

16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) is a personality test developed by Raymond Cattle in 1949. This test is based from Allports 4000 proposed personality traits, which then narrowed down to 16 traits by Cattle.

The purpose of this test is to measure normal behaviors and can be utilized for career development, employees selection, marital help and counselling. The picture below shows the 16 traits measured in this test:

At openpsychometrics.org, the test result is measured by your responses toward 164 given statements, which will only take around 10 minutes to complete it.

The result gives you a score between 0 and 4 for each trait, which will give you ideas about how strong you are in those 16 traits.

Perfect for: Those who want to take a quick short all-around personality test.

Also read: STAR Interview Method: Best Technique to Nail Your Job Interviews

6. HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (HEXACO-PI-R) by hexaco.org

HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (HEXACO-PI-R) is a personality test that breaks down your personality into six dimensions. These six dimensions include Honesty-Humility (H), Emotionality (E), Extraversion (X), Agreeableness (A), Conscientiousness (C), and Openness to Experience (O).

You might think that these dimensions are very similar to the traits of the Big Five Personality Test.

You’re right.

HEXACO-PI-R is developed from the Big Five Personality Test with an addition of the sixth trait, Honesty-Humility (H). This sixth trait is what makes it unique as compared to other personality tests.

The assessment is comprised of 100 questions, which can be completed in about 15 minutes. The results will show you the score for each trait and how it is compared to the general survey-takers.

The result you get will be like this:

Perfect for: Those who already took Big Five Personality Test before.

7. Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) by iluguru.ee

For those who are wondering how extrovert or introvert you are, this personality test is perfect for you. The Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) measures two independent dimensions on your personality, which are extroversion versus introversion and neuroticism versus stability. After completing 57 questions at iluguru.ee, the test will generate three scores, which measure:

• E score: How extrovert you are
• N score: How neurotic you are
• Lie score: How socially desirable you are trying to be in your answer

Fun fact: According to Eysenck’s theory, the percentage of the extrovert population is only about 16%, the same with the introvert, and the rest (about 68%) are in the middle between extrovert and introvert, which is referred as an ambivert.

Perfect for: Those who want to understand their most basic trait, extrovert or introvert.

8. True Colors Test by my-personality-test.com

True Colors is a fun and insightful personality-identification system that groups you into four primary personality type. Interestingly, True Colors is a simplified version of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), taking the most important concepts from it and further enhancing it to be more user-friendly and fun.

This test is focused on the way you interact with others.

Therefore, taking this test helps you to uncover your key social information, mitigates potential conflict with others and creates understanding and collaborative environment.

This would be very powerful, especially if your job requires effective communication and intense team-work.

After taking the test at my-personality-test.com for around 10 minutes, you will get the percentage score for each of your true personality colors, which are:

• Orange: Energetic, spontaneous, charming
• Gold: Punctual, organized, precise
• Green: Analytical, intuitive, visionary
• Blue: Empathetic, compassionate, cooperative

Fun fact: Our population consists of 35% Gold, 27% orange, 23% Green, and 15% Blue according to True Colors methodology.

Perfect for: For team-leader role, and those whose job requires intense communication and team-work.

9. HIGH5 Test by high5test.com

If you ever wonder what you’re good at, this personality test is for you. HIGH5 Test is a strength-focused personality test that helps you find what you’re naturally good at.

Finding your strength will benefit you in many ways. You will be happier, more confident, better engaged, more likely to achieve your goals, have stronger relationships and live a more fulfilling life. Because of its benefit, professionals from 90% of Fortune 500 companies have taken this test according to high5test.com.

The HIGH5 Test comprises of 100 questions and takes you around 20 minutes to finish it. Unlike others, this test will not group you into a specific type.

Instead, the test identifies your top five unique strengths.

Perfect for: Those who want to apply for studying, start a career, or even for those who consider career change.

Also read: When to Quit Your Job?

So what’s next?

Now that you already knew of the various personality tests, it’s time to take them, and uncover every layer of your personality.

After finishing the personality tests, head over to 9cv9 Job Portal to find job opportunities that suit your personality.

For the 9cv9 Personality Test by IBM Watson and 16personalities, you can input your results on 9cv9 to better match to jobs and internships.

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Today, we are proud to announce a native chat feature on 9cv9 Jobs and Career Platform.

The problem with most job boards is they don’t have a native chat feature to sync with their jobs’ applicants.

This means once a candidate applies to an Employer’s jobs, the Employer has to copy down the email, or Skype ID of that candidate and then send an email down to the candidate, or open their Skype application to add the candidate’s Skype ID and thereafter, to wait for the candidate to accept the Skype request and then to converse.

Sounds like alot of steps just to interview a candidate online?

Imagine doing that for 100 candidates or 1,000 candidates?

All these laborious steps in transferring the hiring process from the job board to third-party applications are unnecessary, and lead to an increase in hiring time.

For example, we tried posting on an existing job board and received some applications for our job.

Once we have shortlisted a particular candidate, we had to add him on Whatsapp. We then ask whether the candidate has Skype (as we usually use Skype for business communication since there is no other better alternative) to see if we can add him on Skype as well.

This took us nearly 13 hours from chat initiation to receiving his Skype ID.

And we are not even talking about the rest of the interview process, i.e., finding his strengths and weaknesses, asking him about his job experience, etc.

Well, it’s 2020 so wouldn’t it be good if a chat can be at the same place as the job application website.

Introducing 9cv9 Native Chat Feature…

How it works

1) As an Employer/Hiring Manager, login to your 9cv9 Jobs and Career platform.

2) Click to “Jobs” whereby all your jobs are managed. (Alternatively, go to your Pipeline page by clicking “Pipeline” on the left menu bar).

3) Click on the Applications if there is a new application. (In your Pipeline page, click on the “Applications” tab).

4) At the Candidate row, click “Actions” and click on “Message” to be redirected to the chat room.

In the chat room, you need to wait for the Candidate to accept the chat.

If the candidate accepts the chat, then you can start your interview, i.e. asking of job related questions to the Candidate.

That’s it! Happy interview time. If you like to see an interactive video, watch this below.

FAQ

1. Does this feature come only with the paid plans?

No. This feature is available for all Employer users, free or paid plans.

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Get started on your hiring journey by posting a job on 9cv9

Before you can post a job, you would need a Company to be able to post a Job.

1) Login to your Employer Portal here.

2) At the top right hand corner, there is a “Post Job” button. Click on it.

3. In the first part, we will need these information for the job information.

Job title: A title for your job. Our maximum length for the title is 100 characters.

Key Function: The function and type of your job. Type and choose from our list or type and add a new function to the list.

Type: Choose from full-time, part-time, project-based, remote, or internship

Experience (Years): Number of years of experience needed for the job

Minimum Education Level: The minimum education level needed for your job

No. of vacancies: How many headcount will you be hiring

Working location: The address that the candidate(s) will be working at

Country: The country that the candidate(s) will be working at

City: The city that the candidate(s) will be working at

Nationality: By default, this will be “yes”, which means you are accepting anyone and everyone of all nationalities to your job. If you choose “no”, then an extra field “Preferred nationalities” will appear below.

Preferred nationalities: Only appear when “no” is chosen for the previous nationality question. This allows you to choose the preferred nationalities of your applicants. Do note that nationalities are self-declared by the applicants and we are unable to fully verify their nationalities.

Interview rounds: Number of interview rounds that the applicants have to go through in order to be hired by your company

Language of interview: The language spoken or written during the interview(s)

Technical test: Whether there is a technical test in any of the interview(s). Usually for technical roles, there is usually a technical test interview round.

4. Job Scope

In the job scope page, we need these information:

Job Templates: Job Templates provided by our team to populate the description, skillsets and requirements.

Job Description: Description of your job with a minimum of 700 characters so that it is informative and descriptive enough for our applicants. Also, please avoid the use of discriminatory languages like “he/she”, or “visually impaired”.

Skillsets: Adding skillsets will help you attract more relevant candidates so we highly encourage to add the skillsets needed for your job.

Requirements: Requirements for your job. This open-ended paragraph format enables you to add any other requirements that are needed for your job.

Certifications: Required certifications for your job

Screening questions: Adding screening questions allows you to have better quality candidates. Screening questions will be shown to the candidate when they click “apply” to your job. You can also view the screening answers at your candidate pipeline.

5 Job Benefits

Salary Recommender: Our salary recommender takes your inputs of

• Key Function
• Country
• Experience

And we run it through our current database of candidates’ expected salary to give you a range of their expected salaries.

For example, this is how it looks like when we have some applicants that fit into your inputs

Salary range: You can choose the currencies of USD, SGD, IDR, VND and MYR

Salary period: You can choose per year, per month, or per project

Equity: You can choose whether to give your candidate some equity

Other benefits: You can input any other benefits here as part of the job

Email Notifications: You can input emails that you will like to be notified of when an applicant applies for the job

Once done, click “Preview” to make sure everything is in order. Preview mode allows you to see what will potential applicants be looking at when they click on your job detailed page.

If everything is good, then click “Publish” and that’s it.

FAQs

Can i edit a job after I post it?

Absolutely. Just click “Jobs” at the menu bar on the left and scroll to the job you want to edit. Click “Actions” and a dropdown will appear. Click “Edit” to edit the job.

Can i add images to my job description or requirement?

We don’t have this feature as of this moment. We will be looking to implement this.

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