How Are Personal Profiles Created?
A personality profile is an assessment process used primarily by employers for applicants and employees.
Applicants or employees are invited to complete a personality questionnaire (which can vary from 15 minutes to 2 hours in length) and their responses are software analyzed to create a personal profile. Most personality questionnaires are designed to measure behaviours (our responses to different situations and individuals); Disc and MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) are examples of a behavioural personality analysis.
What Do Personality Profiles Measure?
The Organizational Performance Pro.fileTM (OPP) is a Personality Profiling Process that measures an individual’s Personality Traits. Traits are enduring characteristics that remain consistent over an adult’s life. A personality profile that measures traits provides a more accurate and comprehensive personality analysis for employers and employees.
OPP measures these seven most important work related traits and characteristics:
- Assertiveness
– the ability to lead, follow or facilitate, based on one’s natural risk
orientation and level of need to exercise control over others/situations;
- Sociability – the
ability to be task focused and analytical, people oriented and relationship
focused – or a bit of both, based on one’s level of need to interact with
and/or influence others;
- Pace – the ability to multi-task and handle fast
paced activities, or take a more methodical, step-by-step approach, based on
one’s openness to change and level of need for system and predictability in
their environment;
- Detail Orientation – the ability to be very “hands-on” with most
activities, or to delegate and take a “big picture” approach i.e. to be
strategic or operational, based on one’s level of need for structure and
orderliness;
- Behavioral Adaptability – the ability to modify one’s behaviors to
interact with a wide range of individuals and maintain those behavioral
modifications for an extended period of time, or just a short period of time;
- Emotiveness – the ability to be sensitive and empathetic versus logical and rational – or some of both, based on one’s level of need to express emotion;
- Creativity – the ability to be original – “think outside the box” or to maintain a more conservative / practical approach, based on one’s natural level of inventiveness.
The Impact of an Accurate Personality Profile
Appropriately used, personality profiles (or inventories, as they are also referred to) produce a wealth of information to organizations. Their results can be used for self-awareness, individual management and coaching, identifying and understanding necessary traits and behaviors for specific jobs, developing job descriptions, outlining organizational strengths and weaknesses, identifying training needs, and for selection and placement. They are a key tool for management to consider when making business decisions involving people.
The range of potential usefulness of these instruments is based on the depth of their scientific research, the number of characteristics measured, and the potential number of applications (see Competitor Comparison Table for further insight into range of application for the above mentioned and other instruments).
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