8. Psychological profile questionnaire
Prior to being invited to attend a Selection Interview all applicants must complete the AIFP Psychological Profile Questionnaire.
Being a fire fighter is a psychologically demanding job. As one part of our assessment process, applicants are required to complete a series of psychological tests to evaluate their overall suitability for this role.
These are designed to provide insight into your problem solving ability, work related attitudes and values, your style of working with other people and a range of other personality traits.
When completing the tests it is very important to remember that we are not looking for “perfect” people. We are however, looking for honest people.
We appreciate that when applying for a job people naturally want to make themselves “look good”. However if you do this it will be detected by certain scales within the testing. If you try too hard to look “perfect” by not describing yourself honestly and openly, your profile results will be considered Invalid.
This means that no meaningful conclusions can be obtained from your answers.
If this happens, you will be excluded from progressing to the selection interview. You will not be permitted to complete the psychological profile for another 12 months.
We are also looking for people who are careful and deliberate in their work style. It is therefore important that you read each question carefully. If you rush through the questions, this will be detected. A pattern of very careless answering will also result in an Invalid profile. This will also result in you being excluded from progressing to the selection interview and from attempting the psychological profile for 12 months.