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Article: Personality Tests Analyze Chemistry, Communication Styles Among Staff.
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- PR News
- Article date:
- December 4, 2000
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Your job applicant describes himself as a "people person." But what does that really mean?
Susanne Hite, who runs the nine-person PR department at NewSouth Communications, had never met Chris Villines, an applicant for a manager's position on her staff earlier this year. But Hite still knew an awful lot about him - that he was "gregarious and sociable," that he "tries to please," that he likes working for a "participative" boss and that he "often will become friends with his customers or clients."
All that information was gleaned from a personality test administered to Villines, which he filled out when he submitted his resume to NewSouth, a 1,500- ...