MPM-Forced Choice: A tool to measure personality in just 16 minutes!

Technical assessments play a vital role in the hiring regime of businesses, primarily serving to evaluate the job-specific skills of candidates. Yet they offer just one piece of the puzzle. Understanding a candidate’s motivations, preferences, behaviors and reactions to challenging situations is essential for making informed talent decisions. This is where personality tests come in.

Mercer | Mettl’s Personality Map-Forced Choice (MPM-FC) is a comprehensive and detailed assessment that helps unravel a candidate’s personality and behavior. It delves into various facets of an individual’s character, helping employers gain valuable insights into how a candidate may perform in different workplace scenarios.

MPM-FC is a structurally designed short assessment that minimizes the possibility of candidates deliberately selecting answers that may present them in a socially desirable light. In traditional personality assessments, candidates sometimes tend to answer in a way they believe aligns with what employers are looking for rather than providing genuine responses. MPM-FC mitigates this issue by presenting candidates with forced choice questions, where they must choose between specific traits or behaviors, making it challenging to manipulate their answers.

By reducing the impact of social desirability bias, MPM-FC delivers more accurate and reliable insights into a candidate’s true personality and behavioral tendencies. This empowers organizations to make well-informed hiring decisions, align candidates with roles that match their authentic traits, and foster a more productive and harmonious work environment.

Like Mercer | Mettl’s Personality Map, MPM-FC has robust psychometric properties for unprecedented insights and data-driven hiring decisions.

MPM-FC isn’t a generic personality assessment. It is a combination of two worlds: Likert and Ipsative formats.

In an Ipsative format, candidates pick statements that are most like them and least like them from a given set. This approach uncovers the strongest personality traits of candidates, all while reducing the chances of response biases.

In the Likert format, candidates rate one statement at a time. This helps compare scores of different candidates, highlighting their strengths.

The hybrid structure has the advantages of both Likert and Ipsative formats. Therefore, this partially Ipsative format pinpoints the strongest personality traits that can be identified while comparing the scores of one candidate with others.

Where can you apply this tool?

MPM-FC is a powerful and compact assessment that accurately evaluates the personality traits of candidates. It is crafted with precision, which becomes a shield against socially desirable responses that can cloud your talent decisions.

There are several advantages of MPM-FC in talent management and recruitment:

MPM-FC uses a forced choice question format that reduces the chances of candidates selecting answers they think are socially desirable. This reduces responses that employers want and minimizes response distortion, providing an accurate picture of a candidate’s personality traits.

The assessment offers a detailed understanding of a candidate’s personality and behavior. It evaluates 28 personality traits across four factors, offering a complete view that can be customized as per different job roles.

MPM-FC is a highly customizable tool that aligns with different organizational job roles. This allows businesses to evaluate candidates on the specific traits needed for success in a job position, leading to an optimum job-role fit and increased chances of on-the-job success.

The assessment is valuable for both recruitment and leadership development. It helps identify leadership potential, aiding organizations with succession planning.

MPM-FC provides insightful reports and data that help organizations make informed hiring decisions. This lowers turnover and improves employee satisfaction. Further, the assessment offers data that can be utilized to create an informed talent strategy. This data helps identify patterns in the personality of successful employees, allowing organizations to refine their talent management.

MPM-FC creates an objective and consistent evaluation mechanism for candidates and employees. This helps standardize talent processes, ensuring equity and fairness in hiring.

In conclusion, Mercer | Mettl’s Personality Map-Forced Choice assessment is a reliable tool for assessing personality traits in employees and candidates. Its unique format, valuable insights, and customization make it an asset for organizations willing to make informed talent decisions, enhance hiring accuracy, and ensure high organizational performance.