Psychometric Assessments

Psychometric Assessments
Selecting the right candidates and matching employees to the right jobs is crucial for today’s organisations. Poor recruitment decisions can cost thousands of dollars in wasted selection and training costs, low productivity, and missed business opportunity. Determining which individuals possess the personality associated with effective work behaviours is key to a successful employee selection and development.
By assessing a candidate’s social traits, motivations, strengths and weaknesses, you will be provided with insight into their approach to leadership and likely behaviour in certain situations. For many types of jobs, the personality of an employee is as important as cognitive ability. But how do you determine whether individuals have the right behavioural styles for your jobs? There are a variety of different inventory tests that break people down into different categories, and SRI Executive has profiling Consultants certified, trained, and working across the most advanced Psychometric tools in the market. Psychometric assessments can add exceptional value when reviewing and comparing strong candidates. Our detailed and comprehensive approach to these assessments employs multiple methods to evaluate an individual’s ability to perform and assesses their likely thoughts and resulting behaviours.
EQ-i 2.0 Assessment for Individuals
Emotional Intelligence
How we perceive and express ourselves, the relationships we develop with our colleagues and the way in which we deal with challenges are of great importance in a professional environment. Emotional Intelligence, or EQ, is arguably more relevant than IQ, technical ability and professional knowledge in the current competitive business climate. SRI Executive consultants are certified to administer the EQ 2.0 Leadership Assessment for Individuals and the EQ-360 Multi-Rater Assessment to increase self-awareness, improve management skills and motivate teams.
The EQ-I 2.0 is a psychometrically sound, validated assessment instrument, which incorporates more than 20 years of research and development. The process is fully automated. Participants respond to an online questionnaire, which generates a detailed report on their emotional intelligence in many areas. In the recommended follow-up coaching session, the report is used as a robust and intuitive framework to address issues around leadership.
Two full reports are generated after the online assessment, a client report and coach’s report. These are provided to the client, and if there is a selection involved, to the selection committee. The reports are provided to the individual regardless of whether they have secured the position and offered a debrief with the certified consultant leading the process.
The EQi Multi Rater 360 Assessment can be used for an individual or for the full team. We can provide costs for that dependent upon your needs.
The Hogan Personality Profile (HPI)
This assessment is a measure of personality styles and is used to predict job performance. The HPI is an ideal tool to help you strengthen your employee selection, leadership development, succession planning, and talent management processes. The HPI captures key behavioural tendencies relevant to these life themes and are based on the five-factor model of personality. It is robustly researched and delves deep into the work style and motivation of the individual. The individual will have a debrief with the psychologist after they complete and online assessment. A full report will be produced for client, candidate and selection committee if appropriate. For senior roles we often use the EQI and Hogans togheter to compile a comprehensive assessmnet of the sleadership style and persona motivations of the candidates.

The Discovery Leadership Profile (DLP)
Discovery Leadership Profile™ is a 360 Assessment which gathers perspectives regarding leadership performance from an individual in a leadership position along with other raters. Based on research that identifies the key competencies for effective leadership, performance is measured using 40 items grouped into 10 competency categories. The results of the leader’s self-assessment are then compared to the combined results of the raters, completing the leadership style assessment to clearly highlight strengths and developmental needs.
Outcomes:
- Enables leaders to learn how those who are important to their success see their performance
- Compares self-perceptions to the perceptions of others
- Identifies leaders’ strengths and developmental needs in categories identified as important for effective leadership
- Provides a starting point for further developmental planning
With the Discovery Leadership Profile, leaders will:
- Understand a common model for leaderhhip effectiveness
- Benchmark their individual leadership performance
- Establish goals and monitor their efforts at adopting new behaviors
- Receive verbatim comments from raters through customized questions
OPTO:
OPTO is a personality test based on the widely accepted Five-Factor model of personality. OPTO measures 8 Dimensions of personality which are essential to behaviour and performance at work. Each Dimension is comprised of two or three underlying Aspects.
OPTO’s psychometric model is that of a hierarchical model with 20 Aspects, each of which can be combined to form the higher order Dimensions. The model and design enable both scalability and simplicity in understanding and communicating the test result and yet still covers all business-relevant constructs of personality relevant for organisational performance.

The development of OPTO is based on the Big Five model of personality, which describes five broad categories (factors) of personality traits. A large body of evidence supports this model as a versatile and strong predictor of occupational performance and work life success.
The five factors have been defined as:
- Extraversion – _level of sociability, assertiveness, expressed enthusiasm.
- Conscientiousness – _level of self-discipline, thoughtfulness, being goal-driven.
- Agreeableness – _level of being cooperative, trustworthy, empathetic.
- Openness – _level of creativity, curiosity, interest
- Neuroticism – level of experiencing unpleasant emotions, psychological distress.
Post Assessment Actions
After the assessment process all of those undertaking the assessment receive the written reports on the results, a one-to-one debrief from the certified consultant leading the assessment process. Where appropriate, the selection committee or supervisor (s) will also receive a debrief on the outcomes.
All assessments can be completed and translated in Spanish, French and English.