Using artificial intelligence to gain insights into personality

When it comes to hiring, it can be a challenge for an employer to find the perfect person for the job. As a result, organizations often utilize personality scales as an aid in determining whether a candidate is the right fit. While there are several widely used personality tests on the market, organizations may be looking for traits or skills that are not measured by scales already in existence. Creating a new scale--which takes the work of experts such as personality, organizational, social, or clinical psychologists--can be time-consuming and costly. With this in mind, Ivan Hernandez, an assistant professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Psychology, wanted to find a way to make the creation of personality scales easier and more accessible.