Purpose: This assessment helps you identify professionals who are pleasant and easy to get along with, have the confidence to make decisions, who are customer oriented, interpersonally sensitive and empathetic, caring and nurturing, cheerful and positive, hard working, flexible, and dependable. It also includes an aptitude component to determine the degree to which the individual can handle new learning and deal with complexity.
About the Test: This test consists three parts: (a) a 165 question personality inventory, (2) 44 aptitude questions, about evenly divided between verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, and abstract reasoning, and (3) a set of 34 open-ended statements to which the candidate has to type in a short answer. This test takes about 120 minutes to complete although it will vary from person to person because it is untimed.
What the Report Gives You: Graphical display of scores, explanation of aptitude results, list of Strengths and Developmental Concerns, a display of the actual responses to the open-ended statements, and Suggested Interview Questions.
Testing Process: Online testing provides immediate reporting. Proctoring is desirable but not required.
Options: Contact us to learn how we can customize the test content or the way information is presented in the report to meet your specifications. We can also help you validate an assessment for your workforce or establish company-specific scoring.
Validity Information: Available upon request.
Undesirable Behaviors
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Test Content
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Desirable Behaviors
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Needs less demanding responsibilities, easily overwhelmed by complexity
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General Mental Ability
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Able to make decisions with complex information
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Simplistic thoughts, negative attitudes, grammatical mistakes
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Open-ended questions
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Articulate, meaningful comments, expresses positive attitudes, no grammatical mistakes
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Argumentative
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Agreeableness
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Easy to get along with, nice
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Hesitant, uncomfortable in a leadership role
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Assertive Leadership
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Willing to make decisions, comfortable in leadership role
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Not service minded, stingy about making allowances for customer needs
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Customer Service
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Wants to understand and keep her customers happy
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Fails to live up to promises
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Dependability
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Dependable, reliable
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Doesn’t like detailed tasks
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Detail-Mindedness
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Enjoys working on detailed tasks
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Overreacts to stress, gets upset easily
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Emotional Resilience
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Calm, level-headed, handles stress well
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Needs a lot of quiet time
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Extroversion
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Enjoys interacting with people
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Uncaring about people’s feelings
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Empathy
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Interpersonally / feelings sensitive
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Not interested in helping employees feel valued, respected and appreciated
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Human Relations Mgmt Style
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Makes an effort to help employees feel valued, respected and appreciated
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Direct, blunt, tends not to adjust his/her style to meet others needs
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Impression Management
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Diplomatic, interpersonally sensitive, strives to communicate in ways others can relate to
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Tends to use rules for their own benefit
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Integrity
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Strong moral values
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Focuses on pay & benefits
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Intrinsic Motivation
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Enjoys daily tasks and interactions
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Doesn’t like to deal with needy people
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Nurturance
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Likes caring for people in need
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Prefers traditional approaches and standard solutions
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Openness to New Experience
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Curious, inquisitive, innovative, interested in learning
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Finds fault easily, gloomy attitudes, complains
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Optimism
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Cheerful, enthusiastic, upbeat, positive
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Lacking confidence, vacillates on decisions
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Self Confidence
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Confident, quick decisions
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Loose management style
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Task Structuring Mgmt
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Stays on top of delegated assignments
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Prefers to take care of own assignments
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Teamwork
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Prefers to work collaboratively
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Does the minimum
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Work Drive
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Willing to go the extra mile
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