Assessments

Linking personality and values to career choices

All too often, people make career choices for the wrong reasons and find out too late that their career is at odds with their personality and values. Thompson Technologies uses a variety of psychological assessments to help our clients evaluate individuals within the organization. By having a better understanding of an employee’s strengths, values, personality and behavioral style, organizations can better assess and evaluate where the best fit exists.

While offered as part of the other Thompson Technologies Career Development Services programs, Thompson Technologies also provides these assessments individually as organizations see fit. Our certified professionals can provide numerous assessments and interpretation of results quickly and on-site. Learn more about our most popular and widely-used assessments:

 We also offer many other assessment tools including: Tru Value Program™, Success Insights Wheel™, Managing for Success™, Deal me In™, Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential™ (MAPP™), Strong Interest Inventory™ and Attribute Index™.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator®  (MBTI)

One of the most recognized assessments instruments, the MBTI is primarily concerned with the valuable differences in people that result from where they like to focus their attention, the way they like to take information in, the way they like to make decisions and the kind of lifestyle they adopt. People with opposite preferences tend to be opposites in many ways. They are likely to be weak where others are strong and strong where others are weak. Each type has its own set of inherent strengths and has a big impact on career choices. Some of the benefits of learning the associated personality styles are: improved productivity, better communication, more defined leadership preferences and improved interpersonal skills.

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Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior™ (FIRO-B®)

Another instrument from the family of MBTI, the FIRO-B assessment, has helped people around the world understand how their need for inclusion, control and affection can shape their interactions with others at work or in their personal life. Easy to administer and complete, the FIRO-B assessment is ideal for one-on-one coaching, team-building initiatives, communication workshops and leadership development programs.

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Campbell Interest and Skill Survey®  (CISS)

Vocational interests and skills are important components of personal characteristics. What people like to do and their confidence in what they can do, plays an important role in future career satisfaction and success. The CISS profile analyzes self-reported skills and shows how one compares with people in general and with happily employed people in a variety of occupations. The basic purpose of this survey is to help find a career in which one will be fulfilled and productive.

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Personality Research Form  (PRF)

Awareness and acceptance of ourselves—the way we are—is the first step toward a sound career choice. It is also the foundation for managing our behavior and gradually acquiring new alternatives in behavior. The purpose of the PRF is to give insight into how people operate in their business personality and how to best manage weaknesses, particularly those which might have been problems in past experience. The goal is not to label “good or bad”, “right or wrong” or “sane or crazy”, but to provide an understanding of what makes us tick, what makes us happy and how to manage those responses.

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Career Anchors™

This inventory is designed to help people identify their career anchors and to think about how values relate to career choices. Career Anchors is a combination of perceived areas of competence, motives and values that one would not give up; it represents the real self. Without knowledge of anchors, outside incentives tempt people into situations or jobs that subsequently are not satisfactory because they feel that “this is not really me.” This activity notebook, based on the book by Edgar Schien of MIT, helps individuals review their career history, values and choices to determine which core value drives or motivates their career success. It helps them to determine their “right fit” in a changing landscape which we call work and move forward with a career management plan.

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“I-SPEAK” Your Language®

Based on the work of the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, I-SPEAK® is designed to help establish an essential communications bond with other people, regardless of personal style. It helps to: gain insight into one’s own communication style, identify and understand the various communication styles of others and appropriately adjust one’s style to enhance communication and rapport. Simply put, the better one is able to relate to others, the better the chances of finding success in ones career and getting job offers.

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The Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values Assessment (PIAV):

Values and attitudes help to initiate one’s behavior and are sometimes called hidden motivators because they are not readily observed. This assessment measures the relative prominence of six basic motives: theoretical, utilitarian, aesthetic, social, individualistic and traditional values— leading to an understanding of what drives a person’s behaviors and the attitudes that move them into action. This instrument is often used in the selection process.

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DISC™:

DISC is a four quadrant behavioral model and the universal language of observable human behavior. Its validity is proven just by watching people. Moreover, DISC allows one to communicate at a higher level to achieve substantial results in gaining commitment and cooperation, building effective teams, resolving and preventing conflict and gaining endorsement within organizations.

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TriMetrix™:

TriMetrix is a premier assessment tool combining three validated instruments DISC, PIAV, and PTSI into one powerful system for job benchmarking and talent selection for maximum performance.
TriMetrix assesses both the job’s requirements and summary of candidate’s talent matching up the identical areas. The results offer an unbiased assessment that reveals: if an individual has the specific talents or attributes needed for the job, opportunities and areas for further development, behaviors people will bring to the job and the values that motivate them to do a job.

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