Personality Testing & Analysis
BDO Recruitment offer an online personality and psychometric testing service in conjunction with Thomas International – one of the leaders in personality assessment.
The Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) is a validated, positive, non-critical, behavioural analysis of a person, emphasising your strengths and capabilities in the work environment. The PPA is not a test. You cannot ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ it.
The Thomas System reports are designed for individual use or they can be bundled together to provide a more detailed picture of a person in specific areas of interest. The reports cannot be used to make decisions but rather to provide accurate and validated insights into how a person behaves in varied circumstances and under certain conditions.
This information is extremely useful to the person taking the assessment and to the people who either interact with the person or perhaps manage the person. Each report is unique and based on the individual score captured.
The Benefits of PPA for a company are;
- Increases performance levels and reduces costs by identifying the best job fit to match organisational and team culture.
- Unique, 10 minutes to assess a person – saves screening costs and management time.
- Links human resource strategy to business strategy, identifying HR strengths and limitations and maximising results.
- Reduces subjectivity, resulting in better selection and return on staff and management investment.
- In conjunction with Thomas TST identifies leaders and high flyers.
- Highlights training needs resulting in savings on training costs
The main benefits of using the PPA for an individual would be
- Provide an accurate overview of your work behavioural preferences
- They give you the self awareness to consolidate your working strengths and compensate for your limitations
- Can be used to modify your communication style for greater effect
- Used to understand the impact your behavioural preferences have on your work colleagues
Please contact us to learn how the PPA can help you as an employee to improve your performance or as a company looking to assess prospective candidates. BDO Recruitment will provide a complete assessment and feedback programme for individuals or companies.
Click here for a list of sample report;
These reports are included in the Career Investment Program level 1
A comprehensive assessment of an individual including working strengths, fears, motivators and the value that person brings to an employer. It also includes how they are likely to perform under pressure, how they modify their behaviour in their current job and any frustrations or problems they may be facing.
It generates questions for use in an interview scenario, for both personal development and recruitment. It asks questions in relation to the whole profile, including the whole profile, including points to review.
Designed to simplify and aid feedback. Highlights descriptive words, general characteristics, motivators and value to the organisation.
A useful outplacement tool to identify and stimulate conversation in the area of career guidance. It enables you to target three precise areas: junior/clerical, supervisory or executive/professional.
Once a PPA has been completed there a wide range of reports available which will enable you to appreciate and understand the way your people work.
Each Additional Report is charged at 150.00
List of Reports
Executive Summary
A similar assessment to the PPA profile but formatted in a bullet point summary.
Management/Sales/Interview Questionnaires
Provides a series of structured behavioural type questions to be used at an interview. The questionnaires get behind the candidate’s mask at interview. It helps you to question their ability to do the job.
Personal Review
It reports on the personal style of the individual using key descriptive words. Gives advice on how to maximise the person’s potential.
Strengths and Limitations
Give a fast and effective overview of the behavioural strengths and limitations of an individual. This report is extremely useful in appraisal.
How to Manage
Guidance on how to manage a person, motivation to be used and the style of communication best received by them.
Training Needs Analysis
Identifies likely training needs and details competences and weaknesses.
Driver Assessment Report
Looks at the behavioural characteristics linked to high risk driving. It compares a driver’s preferred behaviour to the known high risk behavioural characteristics and gives a rating of 1-5.
Management Audit
Considers a person’s strengths and limitations in relation to six key management competencies. These are managing and motivating; decision making; planning and problem solving; communication style; administrative ability and how they develop others.
Sales Audit
Details a person’s likely ability to open and close a sale and service clients as well as reporting on their presentation style and administrative ability.
Admin/Technical Audit
The profile is described in its application to a role in an administrative or technical capacity.
Call Centre Audit
It identifies how a person responds to client needs, how they impart information, problem solving skills, their likely persistence and sensitivity as well as how they will promote products and services.
