Each profession is characterized by a set of specific duties, actions and requirements in relation to the employee. Especially working with people involves certain standards of behavior of specialists. How do you know if you are able to work, say, as a doctor or teacher? Do you have enough agility, knowledge and patience to work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
Proficiency Tests
There are certain tests to determine the properties of your character. They help to find out what you can do and apply in your work, and what you should avoid, so that after a year you do not end up in a hospital bed with a nervous breakdown. While still in school, while studying in graduation classes, children undergo aptitude tests. Answering certain questions, you can find out your capabilities, tendency to any particular profession. Such tests are mainly carried out by school psychologists, a psychological service in employment centers. Particular attention is paid to the suitability of police officers.
Why do police officers take proficiency tests?
There are many situations in practice when an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs cannot objectively evaluate what is happening. There are enough reasons: from bribes to family ties of employees, concealment of crimes. To do this, they introduced mandatory testing of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the suitability of their profession.
According to the results of psychological research, it is possible to determine whether a person is capable of heroic acts, whether he can sacrifice his interests, whether he has the proper level of responsibility and patriotism. Tests for the suitability of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can also indicate personality problems, without which it is unacceptable to work in the bodies. All tests for determining professional suitability are divided into two large blocks. The first defines the general personality traits of the employee, positive and negative aspects, interests, abilities and values. The second block draws the attention of the researcher to existing deviations from the norm in human behavior.
Multifactor tests for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
To compile personality characteristics, psychologists have a large arsenal of tests. They make it possible to compose a whole complex of personal qualities and properties, as well as to predict human behavior in stressful situations. These tests include: Kettel's questionnaire, MMPI2, Sondi's technique, Bass-Darki test, CPI. More often than not, universal tests are quite large and take a long time to fill out, which is why automatic psychological tests for professional suitability are used in many departments. Using these techniques, the personnel specialist draws up a general personality profile.
Narrowly targeted tests to identify problems
There are certain pointed personality traits called accentuations. In various extreme situations, vulnerability of these character traits may arise, which is unacceptable for a police officer. Carrying out narrowly targeted tests for professional suitability, the specialist identifies the weaknesses of the employee. The main working tools of a psychologist are such methods as the questionnaire Leary, Jan Strelyau, KOT, Myers-Brigs test, CPM-A J. Raven.
The second block is not always used, only if there are any contentious issues in the behavior and worldview of a person. After passing a set of tests, the specialist concludes that the specific employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is professionally fit. Such a serious approach is associated with increased emotional burnout of police officers. Preference is given to reliable, responsible, firm, patriotic, non-mercenary, mentally stable candidates.