Evaluating Personality, Ethics, and Skills in IT Career Development

This report explores the significance of identifying and evaluating personality traits, skills, and ethical considerations in the context of IT career development. It delves into recruitment processes used in the IT industry, including skill testing and psychometric testing, to identify suitable candidates. The report includes a critique of the author's MBTI test results, an appraisal of postgraduate study and international experience, and an analysis of the importance of ethics in the IT sector, referencing the Facebook data breach as an example of ethical failure. The conclusion emphasizes how understanding individual capabilities and competencies contributes to the growth and ethical practices within the IT industry, facilitating effective adaptation to market needs.

Running head: IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING PERSONALITY
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Name of the student
Name of the university
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1. Introduction
The identification of the different psychological capabilities has helped in maintaining
the supply of skilled workforce in the organizations. The skilled workforce helps in the smooth
functioning of the business in the market. The recruitment processes that are implemented by the
organization helps in maintaining the standards of the work functions that are planned by the
business as it helps the organization to bring in continuous innovations while operating in the
international markets. The research is aimed at exploring the different recruitment systems that
are undertaken by the IT industry and the manner in which it facilitates the smooth performance
of the business organizations as per the objectives of the same in the market. It also enumerates
the ethics of the IT sector and the manner in which the identification of the right job role has
helped the industry to undertake continuous innovations.
2. Recruitment process used in IT
The recruitment process that is use by the IT industry can be segregated in mostly five
steps. The steps that are undertaken by the IT industry are Recruitment Planning, Strategy
Development, Searching, Screening, Evaluation and Control. The planning and strategy
development processes helps the organizations in the industry to identify the job roles that is
required to be recruited for (Zichao, 2014). The identification of the major roles helps the
organization to perform as per the objectives of the same while operating in the international
markets. On the other hand, searching for the most appropriate candidate from the internal and
the external sources helps the organization to bring in changes in the systems of the business in
the market (Mohanan, Cheriyan & Rajesh, 2017). The recruitment of the skilled workforce helps
in maintaining the different levels of changes in the performance of the business through the

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application of the ethics. Screening the candidates helps in the identification of the most
appropriate candidates as per the job roles. The evaluation and control over the processes helps
in the safe functioning of the workforce as per the objectives of the business while operating in
the international markets.
2.1 Skill testing
The skill testing will be helping the me to identify the skills and incorporate the same like
SDLC and the knowledge on the Web Technologies. It has helped me in differentiating between
the capabilities of the individuals identify the competencies that the candidates and I might face
while operating in the respective job roles. The different skills will be helping the candidates to
bring in changes in the systems of the business through the delineation of the different factors
that affects the functioning of the organizations.
2.2 Psychometric testing
The psychometric testing helped me to identify the psychological traits that are inherent
in me. It provided me with the insight of the change that the candidates are capable of brining
into the systems of the business. The evolution of the IT industry is specifically based on the
continuous innovation that is undertaken by the professionals (Kakkireni & Vinnakota, 2016).
The identification of the innovator or the analyst helps in maintaining the different levels of
changes in the systems of the business in the market situation.
3. MBTI test and evaluation
The MBTI test forecasted the result for me to be an Architect (INTJ A). It has portrayed
my nature to be intuitive and assertive at the same time. The result has helped me in identifying
the positive functioning that I might undertake during the tenure of my job role. The key

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elements of the Thinking and judging has helped me in undertaking decisions that are fruitful for
the proper functioning of the processes that are planned as per the IT industry. the thinking and
judging capabilities will be helping me to assert the proper functioning of the processes that are
planned by the IT industry.
4. Appraisal of the experience and the post graduate study
The appraisal of the experience and the post graduate study has helped me to get hold of
a job role in the IT industry. The skills that I have gained during my study and the experience
that I gathered from my involvement in different sectors has helped me while undertaking the
recruitment questionnaire.
5. Importance of ethics and scandals in IT
Ethics play a major role while identifying the key functions that are undertaken by the IT
industry as per the needs of the market. The understanding of the ethics helps in developing the
systems that helps in winning over the different negative elements that affects the functioning of
the business in the market.
Scandals
The facebook data breach case has affected millions of social media users which was
caused due to a single company, Cambridge Analytica. Around 1 million people in UK,
Philippines and Indonesia might have had their personal information in the social media, which
was compromised through the infiltration. It is one of the most recent examples of an ethical
breach that Facebook encountered, which affected the loyalty of its users.

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6. Conclusion
Therefore, from the above discussion it can be stated that the identification of the
different capabilities and the competencies of the candidates has helped in the growth of the IT
industry as per the needs of the same to expand in the markets. The identification of the different
aspects of the change in the systems are planned through the ethics of the business and the
manner in which it can be applied to the processes to make the same more effective.

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