Personality test is becoming more and more popular in recruitment and selection process of companies and organization. This is due to the fact that it is personality rather than intelligence decides whether a person is suitable for a job or not. According to the Big Five, there is a five-factor model of personality, which includes five traits: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscien-tiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to experience.
It is important to ignore the positive or negative associations that these words have in everyday language. For example, Agreeableness is obviously take more advantage for achieving and main-taining popularity. Agreeable people are better liked than disagreeable people. On the other hand, agreeableness is not useful in situations that require tough or totally objective decisions.
Disagreeable people can make excellent scientists, critics, or soldiers. However, none of the five traits is in themselves positive or negative, they are simply characteristics that individuals obsess to a greater or lesser extent.
In fact, every individual own all five aspects, yet, in different levels of each one. For example, two individuals could be described as ‘agreeable’ (agreeable people value getting along with others). But there could be significant variation in the degree to which they are both agreeable.
Each personality has positive and negative aspects which represent the highest and the lowest level on the scale.
The next part will discuss in detail positive and negative aspect of each personality.
1. Extraversion
Extraversion refers to the relationship between an individual to external world. People who have high score in Extraversion are called extroverts, they usually enjoy being with people, are full of energy and often experience positive emotion. They tend to be enthu-siastic, action oriented, individuals who are likely to say “Yes” or “Let’s go” to opportun-ities for