Evaluation of Personality Traits for a Successful Career of Engineers

Armin Betz

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.657.1056

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Evaluation of Personality Traits for a Successful Career of Engineers

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Various research on aptitude testing has been accomplished yet [1,2,. Experiences from many years of HR consulting and knowledge of the industrys needs regarding to and lack of specific scientific research in aptitude testing for engineers emerged into research acivities in this field. The paper presents the data and main results of the field of aptitude testing for engineers. Its present situation as well as the reasons for that are considered and its necessity is shown. The gotten insights are presented: the existence of personality traits typical for engineers, the existence of key criteria and deduction of HR development measures necessary for a career. A newly developed personality test was applied to the occupational area of engineers. With more than 1400 tests conducted, many deductions were possible.Through the innovative approach of standard profiles of corresponding average groups rather than with demografic equivalent results could be derived. These are typical traits on the one side and development areas on the other.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 657)

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Aptitude Testing, Definition and Measurement of Engineers’ Traits

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