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Employment testing is the practice of administering written, oral, or other tests as a means of determining the suitability or desirability of a job applicant.

The premise is that if scores on a test correlate with job performance, then it is economically useful for the employer to select employees based on scores from that test.

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals.

Its areas of focus include:

An aptitude is a component of a competence to do a certain kind of work at a certain level.

Outstanding aptitude can be considered "talent".

An aptitude may be physical or mental.

Aptitude is inborn potential to do certain kinds of work whether developed or undeveloped.

Ability is developed knowledge, understanding, learned or acquired abilities (skills) or attitude.

The innate nature of aptitude is in contrast to skills and achievement, which represent knowledge or ability that is gained through learning.According to Gladwell (2008) and Colvin (2008) often it is difficult to set apart an outstanding performance merely because of talent or simply because of hard training.

Talented people as a rule show high results immediately in few kinds of activity, but often only in single direction or genre.

A test or examination (informally, exam or evaluation) is an assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs).

A test may be administered verbally, on paper, on a computer, or in a confined area that requires a test taker to physically perform a set of skills.

Tests vary in style, rigor and requirements.

For example, in a closed book test, a test taker is often required to rely upon memory to respond to specific items whereas in an open book test, a test taker may use one or more supplementary tools such as a reference book or calculator when responding to an item.

A test may be administered formally or informally.

An example of an informal test would be a reading test administered by a parent to a child.

An example of a formal test would be a final examination administered by a teacher in a classroom or an I.Q.

test administered by a psychologist in a clinic.

Formal testing often results in a grade or a test score.

A test score may be interpreted with regards to a norm or criterion, or occasionally both.

A skill is the ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.

Skills can often be divided into domain general and domain-specific skills.

For example, in the domain of work, some general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self-motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be useful only for a certain job.

Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used.