Psychometric Testing In Career Counseling/Guidance

Every individual has the choice to select his own career according to his abilities and skills. However most of the individual find it difficult to take decision. Therefore a lot of career counselors and guidance providers helps an individual to come out of the difficult moment by involving individual in psychometric testing in order to get information regarding his strengths and capabilities.

Psychometric testing is one of the most important source of getting more and more information. Now a days it is more common and advantageous as online psychometric testing is available that is free of cost or with very minimum cost. It helps students to understand what career is suitable for them and what the requirements are for reaching towards a specific goal.

Following are the key objectives of psychometric testing for the domain of career counseling.

1-      Psychometric testing helps counsellor’s parents and teachers to identify hidden abilities present in an individual.

2-      It helps them to identifytheir strengths i.e. things they are good at and their weaknesses i.e. things in which improvement is needed.

3-      One of the major reason of using psychometric testing is to help individuals to identify their interests. In this way it will be more helpful and supporting as individual choses his or her career with his own will and thus work hard with full dedication to achieve his goal.

4-      Psychometric testing not only helps individual in choosing his career but also helps him in knowing his own personality. He gets an insight regarding his worth and his value. He will be able to know his personality dynamics and hidden talents.

5-      Psychometric testing helps an individual to gain insight regarding aspects of work i.e. what are the requirements, what are the needs, what are the necessities of obtaining such type of career.

However although psychometric testing gives an individual an idea regarding his career however most of the people thinks of psychometric testing as an tool for making finalized decision for themselves. Therefore following are the things that psychometric testing cannot do:

1-     Psychometric testing cannot take decision for you. Although psychometric tests are helpful in deciding about the right career however they are not final source for making decision. In other words at the base of psychometric tests only an individual cannot make decisions.

2-      Psychometric testing do not helps an individual in finalizing the list of careers that can be finally adapted or that cannot be finally adapted. We cannot rule out on just basis of career.

3-      Although psychometric testing can give you a little support in getting information about yourself, your abilities, strengths, weaknesses etc. however it cannot help you to leave all the possible thinking ideas and to just rely on these tests and make decisions. An individual should have to think hard in doing right decision for the right career.

4-  Psychometric testing should be supported or done under the guidance of some professionals in order to achieve proper and verified information regarding career options and adaptation.