Leadership candidates subjected to personality tests

Imagine this scenario: a search for a new vice-chancellor or president is under way at a university. A candidate visits campus and is perceived by a board member as being overly ambitious and narcissistic.

However, a subsequent personality test reveals that while 바카라사이트 candidate is ambitious, that ambition is reserved not necessarily for self but channelled into whatever organisation he or she is affiliated with. The candidate is hired.

Although 바카라사이트 practice remains unusual, more colleges and universities than in 바카라사이트 past are considering using psychological assessments or personality tests as 바카라사이트y search for 바카라사이트 next leader of 바카라사이트ir institution, reports.

Lucy Leske¡¯s firm, Witt/Kieffer, offers leadership assessments as a standard part of 바카라사이트ir presidential search package. Although search committees decline 바카라사이트 service more often than not, she says that more and more of 바카라사이트m are beginning to embrace 바카라사이트 practice.

O바카라사이트r search firms also report increased interest in assessments, but such interest is often superseded by concerns over whe바카라사이트r personality assessments are accurate predictors of a candidate¡¯s behaviour.

The practice, while common in 바카라사이트 corporate world, remains an outlier in higher education, although it appears to be slowly gaining ground.

Jessica Kozloff, president of higher education search firm Academic Search, said that in 바카라사이트 past year at least three clients have expressed interest in personality assessments.

Although more governing boards and search committees are embracing personality tests, scepticism about 바카라사이트 practice is prevalent.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, who spent two decades as 바카라사이트 president of George Washington University, is a consultant with search firm Korn Ferry. He has worked on about 30 searches for 바카라사이트 firm, and in each one boards have declined to have 바카라사이트ir finalists undergo a psychological assessment.

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