Personality Tests For Workers In High-Risk Jobs

Can a test predict behavior under stress and the likelihood of making a careless or macho mistake on the job? A marketer in the testing industry makes the case that it can. While skirting details on how to handle the results, he says administering personality assessments to employees in safety-sensitive jobs will find clues about whether the employee is a potential “Captain Sully” or a potential cowboy who could run the train off the tracks.