personality profiling to test cultural fit as part of job application

Personality Assessments

Personality profiling is a scientific method of determining human personality characteristics and establishes person-job fit across the talent management life cycle. The personality assessment establishes a candidate’s strengths and potential weaknesses, key work styles and motivations. Collins McNicholas can develop a bespoke report for the employer based on the specific role/department within 24-48 hours of the candidate completing the personality test.​

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Client Testimonials

– Julie Flanagan, Director, Clear Strategy

When to Use
  • In recruitment and selection, to identify the best fit candidates

  • In team building, to improve team collaboration and performance

  • In development, to identify key strengths and development needs

  • In succession, to identify top performers and develop future leaders

  • During transitions, to facilitate redeployment and restructuring

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Benefits
  • Bespoke report developed within 24-48 hours of completion

  • Off-the-shelf reporting options also available, e.g. leadership derailers, competency report

  • Computerised Web-based application, overseas/out of reach candidates easily assessed

  • It can be unsupervised/supervised​

  • Provides consistency score on candidate’s responses

  • Offered in 39 languages​

  • Reviewed by the British Psychological Society, Psychological Testing Centre

  • Feedback delivered to all candidates upon request​

Team cohesion as a result of personality assessments
Blogs on use of Personality Assessments for Personality Profiling

Read further advice on the use of Personality Assessments by our Occupational Psychology Team