Hiring by personality test: science or fortune-telling?
An HR director and a psychologist clash over personality tests in hiring; students debate whether employers should use them.
C1Adults55 minDebate
About this lesson
A C1 speaking lesson (debate). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- C1
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Debate
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 55 minutes
- Topic
- Personality
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Multiple choice, Word order
- Key words
- a trait, conscientious, to game a test, Where's the evidence for that?, That rests on the assumption that…, In fairness, …, to rule someone out, a self-report questionnaire
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Debate the use of personality tests in recruitment, supporting claims with reasons and evidence
- Challenge claims by asking for evidence and questioning assumptions