by Melissa A. Messer, MHS, and Heather Ureksoy, PhD
Purpose: Assesses workplace personality traits in adults
Age: 17 years to 70 years
Admin: Individual
Time: 25 minutes
Qualification Level: U
Assesses an Adult's Work-Related Personality Traits that are Related to Effective Job Performance
The results of the WSA will provide insights to both employees and hiring managers.
- Helps workers understand their own job preferences and approaches, allowing them to identify potentially satisfying occupations and providing the foundation for work with a career counsellor.
- Helps hiring managers identify the working styles they value in employees and select applicants based on the degree to which they possess those working styles.
Features and benefits
- The only workplace personality assessment that uses the current Occupational Information Network (O*NET) terminology. The personality traits measured by the WSA can be compared to the traits associated with hundreds of current occupations listed in the O*NET database.
- Administer either online or on paper, in a group setting or individually.
- Online administration and report generation is available through PARiConnect. Once the test is complete, easily generate two reports: an Interpretive Report for users and a Personnel Selection Report for hiring managers.
- Measures 18 constructs, including all 16 working styles defined by the O*NET. These constructs are grouped in five general categories: drive, interpersonal skill, adjustment.
- The Assessment Booklet includes 14 agree-or-disagree statements for each of the 18 constructs measured.
- The User’s Workbook helps examinees organize their results, generate a list of their own top 10 working styles, and match those styles to potential occupations.
- For the counsellor or HR professional, the Score Summary Sheet provides a fast way to score and organize the working styles of a client or job seeker.
