Paradigm FiT IN™

Are you looking for a personality test which is:

  • scientifically solid?
  • accurate?
  • easy to relate to competency models?
  • instead of labelling people, it highlights motivational areas for development?

If you answered yes to the questions above, you have found a suitable tool from the BCF.

FiT In™ Professional Personality Profile, the "Five Trait Inventory" is an advanced personality test, based on the "Big Five" theory and developed for corporate HR use.

FiT In™ is an HR development tool, it gives your key staff higher self-awareness and highlights development areas. It also provides an effective selection reference tool, in short, FiT In™ helps select those people that can best work and grow with your organization.

Application Fields
  • Development needs analysis
  • Training and coaching
  • Assessment centres
  • Recruitment
  • Selection
  • Career planning, succession planning

Major benefits
  • Higher self-awareness
  • Realistic personality development objectives
  • Better recruitment decisions
  • Increased performance due to better individual understanding - job fit
  • Enhanced performance due to the right blend of personalities within work teams
  • Increased effectiveness due to selection of suitable leaders


How does FiT IN™ compare with other profilers?


FiT IN™

Origin
Developed 2001-2003 based on the latest advancements in personality testing (Big 5 and fundamental factor-analysis research by Samuel Goldberg (1993)).

Psychological model
26 specific Scales grouped in 5 broad Dimensions to establish a continuous comprehensive profile.

Resolution
Trait-Model. Each scale is independently defined. This way FiT In™ is capable of generating an original, unique and distinctive profile for basically every human being on the planet.

Purpose
Designed to support the HR Management processes of modern corporations. Identifying work related behaviour-patterns and tendencies. Social as well as self-oriented approach. Results shall help both the company and the person to recognize his/her real professional potential an realise it.

Corporate fields of use
Recruitment, succession-planning, self- and team development.

Summary
An advanced and modern test, developed with a broad spectrum of corporate applications and special reports in key areas of recruitment and HR-development. Web based, online system. Comprehensive user manual, user training and additional consulting is available.


16PF

Origin
Developed in the 1940's in the USA, by Cattell James.

Psychological model
16 factors that establish a continuous comprehensive profile.

Resolution
Trait- Model. Each trait is independently defined.

Purpose
Identifying the mental health and preferences a person shows in everyday life. Mainly social approach. Results shall help a counsellor to better know the individual behaviour.

Corporate fields of use
Self-Development and mental diagnosis.

Summary
Long and well established tool with widespread additional publications. But the main usage is to help counsellor and psychiatrist. Not recommended for recruitment.


MBTI®

Origin
Developed in the 1940's in the USA, by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers based on the personality theory of Carl Jung (1921).

Psychological model
4 Dimensions that establish 16 types.

Resolution
Typemodel. Types are rough, each type broad and complex. Therefore, if a person does not belong very clearly to one type, interpretation becomes difficult, because it is hard to grab the meaning of mixed types.

Purpose
Identifying the basic way a person behaviourally and intellectually approaches his/her environment. Mainly social approach. Results shall help a person to better get along especially with other people.

Corporate fields of use
Self- and team development.

Summary
Long and well established tool with widespread additional publications. But as developed in the USA in the 1940s it faces similar limitations as DISC: Maybe the VW Beetle of Assessment. Also no possibility for customizations. Not recommended for recruitment.


DISC®

Origin
Developed in the 1930's in the USA, by William Moulton Marston.

Psychological model
4 Dimensions that establish 16 typical patterns.

Resolution
Typemodel. Patterns are rough, each pattern broad and complex. Therefore, if a person does not belong very clearly to one pattern, interpretation becomes difficult, because it is hard to grab the meaning of mixed types.

Purpose
Identifying certain emotional reaction-patterns a person shows in certain environments. Mainly self-oriented perspective. Results shall help the individual to better cope with his/her own patterns.

Corporate fields of use
Self-Management

Summary
Long and well established tool with widespread additional publications. But as being developed in the USA of the 1930s it is kind of the Ford T-Model of personality tests. Further, there is no possibility for customizations.