Vocational Psychology and Personality: The Relationship of the Five-Factor Model to Job Performance and Job Satisfaction

The use of personality inventories for selection purposes was embraced with great enthusiasm by both the American military and private corporations in the decade following the World War II (Mount & Barrick, 1995). However, many researchers soon came to view personality variables as being of little or no value to the prediction of job performance or job satisfaction. This dismissal of the value of personality testing was to span much of the next 3 decades.