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Adaptive Reasoning Test
The Adaptive Reasoning Test (ART) is a brief, 25-minute timed cognitive assessment engineered to measure a candidate’s core logical thinking abilities and fluid intelligence. Comprising 15 non-verbal items, this highly efficient test evaluates figural logic through visual symbol grids and complex pattern sequences to predict performance in cognitively demanding roles. Because the adaptive system rotates items dynamically based on user answers, no two candidates see the exact same exam, ensuring strict test security in unproctored settings.
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AMA DISC Survey®
The AMA DISC Survey® is an online or paper-based behavioral assessment designed to evaluate and predict how people approach their work and relate to others within an organization. Developed for the American Management Association and built to strict psychometric standards, this 80-statement survey takes roughly 30 to 60 minutes to administer, score, and debrief. It maps actions across four foundational workplace styles: Directing, Influencing, Supportive, and Contemplative.
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Applicant Potential Test
The Applicant Potential Test (APT) is a highly efficient, 12-minute timed aptitude test engineered to accurately and objectively identify top performers, effective problem solvers, and quick learners. This streamlined 40-question assessment measures a candidate’s core cognitive abilities, helping organizations separate applicants who merely “sound good” in an interview from those who possess the practical thinking skills to do the job right.
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Applicant Risk Profiler
The Applicant Risk Profiler is a validated, 25-minute pre-employment screening test designed to identify potential hiring risks before an organization invests time and money into onboarding. This 80-question personality assessment evaluates an applicant’s core workplace attitudes and counterproductive tendencies, helping employers safeguard company assets and maintain a reliable workforce.
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Arithmetic Tests (Battery)
The Arithmetic Tests Battery is a flexible suite of five individual entry-level math assessments designed to measure basic computational speed and accuracy. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, these tests evaluate a candidate’s ability to work with whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and percentages without complex mathematical theory. Depending on the specific version chosen, the testing format ranges from 24 to 40 questions and is available in multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank structures across online or paper formats.
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Ashland Interest Assessment
The Ashland Interest Assessment (AIA) is a specialized career planning and counseling tool engineered for individuals facing educational, physical, emotional, cognitive, or psychiatric barriers to employment. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this flexible assessment consists of 144 pairs of work-related activities. It is uniquely optimized for individuals at or above a 3rd-grade reading level, featuring highly concise item phrasing printed in larger-than-normal type to ensure ease of use.
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Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 4th Edition
The Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 4th Edition (BESI) is a widely trusted, 20-minute screening tool designed to help individuals quickly pinpoint the personal and professional roadblocks preventing them from finding or keeping a job. With over 800,000 copies in print, this powerful inventory requires users to rate 50 simple statements to map out their core struggles. The assessment is completely self-scoring and self-interpreting, and it can be completed either online or on paper. (Note: While the 4th edition remains available, a modernized 5th Edition featuring updated 21st-century workplace language is also available.)
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Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 5th Edition
The Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 5th Edition (BESI) is a quick, 20-to-30-minute self-assessment designed to help individuals identify the hurdles and obstacles that stand in the way of a successful job search and long-term career growth. To ensure an easy and stress-free user experience, individuals simply rate 50 straightforward statements regarding their current levels of concern. The inventory can be administered online or on paper and scored by hand or via an automated online report.
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Basic Computer Skills Test
The Basic Computer Skills Test is a quick, entry-level pre-employment screening tool designed to evaluate an applicant’s foundational word processing capabilities and general familiarity with Microsoft Windows applications. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 26-item multiple-choice exam presents candidates with questions directly related to software screens to test practical, on-the-job technical knowledge.
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Basic Skills Test (BST®)
The Basic Skills Tests (BST®) is a highly flexible suite of 15 individual screening assessments designed to measure fundamental reasoning, numerical logic, perceptual speed, and verbal abilities in job applicants. Backed by one of the largest commercial validation projects ever undertaken—involving over 17,000 employees across 62 organizations—this modular testing battery allows employers to mix and match specific sub-tests to build a customized evaluation. The majority of these standalone, bite-sized tests are timed at just 2 to 10 minutes each, making the overall series a quick and highly efficient gatekeeper for high-volume recruitment.
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Becoming A Customer Service Star
The Becoming a Customer Service Star Assessment and Workshop is an interactive professional development tool designed to help individuals evaluate their behavioral tendencies and attitudes regarding frontline client relations. Taking under 30 minutes to administer as a standalone test—or functioning as a core asset for a 1.5-hour training workshop—this intermediate-level program identifies an individual’s personal service reflexes rather than just teaching abstract concepts.
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Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test-II
The Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test-II (BMCT-II) is a 25-minute timed online assessment designed to measure a candidate’s mechanical understanding, spatial perception, and ability to learn new technical skills. Replacing all older paper versions, this modernized 55-item test uses everyday visual mechanisms to evaluate how effectively an individual can apply physical laws to real-world repair and maintenance scenarios.
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Boilermaker Test
The Boilermaker Test is a journey-level pre-employment assessment designed to evaluate a candidate’s technical knowledge of industrial boiler installation, heating systems, and mechanical repair. This 121-item multiple-choice exam takes under 30 minutes to complete and can be administered via online or paper formats. It focuses strictly on practical, job-related engineering concepts rather than abstract theories.
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Can-Do Attitude Test
The Can-Do Attitude Test offered by Creative Organizational Design is a fast, under 30-minute personality screening assessment designed to evaluate an applicant’s optimism, workplace morale, and willingness to go the extra mile. Available in both online and paper formats, this test helps employers look past technical skills to secure hires who bring a positive, cooperative energy to the job.
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Career Directions Inventory
The Career Directions Inventory (CDI) is a flexible, highly cost-effective vocational counseling tool designed to facilitate career exploration for high school, college, and university students, as well as adults navigating a professional transition. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this 100-item test can be administered in an online or paper format and is suitable for individuals aged 14 and older, regardless of whether they plan to pursue post-secondary education.
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Career Exploration Inventory – EZ 2nd Edition (CEI-Easy)
The Career Exploration Inventory – EZ 2nd Edition (CEI-Easy) is a quick, 20-minute interest inventory designed to help job seekers discover, map, and plan their future educational, work, and leisure paths. Consisting of 96 distinct activity items, this streamlined assessment features a highly accessible, easy-to-read format that makes it an excellent choice for individuals or group settings with limited time.
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Career Interest Profiler & Canadian Career Interest Profiler
The Career Interest Profiler (CIP) & Canadian Career Interest Profiler are flexible vocational screening tools designed to help individuals clarify their personal interests and connect them to fulfilling occupational paths. Backed by extensive research on over 17,000 individuals, this 25-minute assessment contains 180 items. It is uniquely designed to highlight a substantial number of vocational and technical occupations that do not require a college or university degree, alongside those that do.
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Career Values Scale
The Career Values Scale® is a fast, 15-minute vocational assessment designed to measure the underlying work-related values that dictate an individual’s job satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Consisting of 88 items, this highly accessible test can be administered in an online or paper format to help people clarify what is truly important to them in a career.
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Checking Accuracy Test
The Checking Accuracy Test is a quick, entry-level pre-employment screening assessment designed measure a candidate’s ability to read and verify raw administrative data accurately. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 30-question multiple-choice exam evaluates practical, on-the-job clerical precision rather than abstract reasoning.
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ChemTest
The ChemTest is a journey-level pre-employment skills assessment designed to verify a candidate’s core physical and chemical knowledge. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 43-item multiple-choice exam evaluates an individual’s practical comprehension of chemical operations rather than complex academic theory.
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Clerical Skills Test
The Clerical Skills Test is a quick, under 30-minute screening assessment designed to objectively determine an applicant’s core administrative capabilities before hire. Available in both online and paper formats, this highly practical test helps employers bypass hiring guesswork by verifying foundational office literacy and numerical accuracy. Physical booklets feature a unique hidden carbonless panel that automatically captures answers for fast manual grading, while the digital version offers immediate automated reporting.
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CNC Operator Test
The CNC Operator Test is a quick, journey-level screening assessment designed to measure a candidate’s technical knowledge and field experience with computer-numerical-control (CNC) machinery. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 60-question multiple-choice exam evaluates practical, on-the-job manufacturing mechanics rather than abstract engineering concepts.
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CNC Test
The CNC Test is a quick, journey-level pre-employment skills assessment designed to evaluate a candidate’s understanding of core industrial computing and machining concepts. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 60-question multiple-choice exam focuses on practical technical knowledge rather than abstract manufacturing theory.
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CNC Trainee Test
The CNC Trainee Test is a trainee-level screening assessment designed to evaluate the foundational knowledge and technical skills of prospective computer-numerical-control (CNC) operators. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this comprehensive 90-item multiple-choice exam identifies candidates with the right baseline aptitude before an employer invests heavy training resources.
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Combined Basic Skills – Chemical Operator
The Combined Basic Skills – Chemical Operator assessment is a quick, entry-level screening test designed to measure a candidate’s baseline technical and problem-solving skills for industrial environments. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 52-item multiple-choice exam evaluates core workplace competencies rather than dense academic theory, helping employers bypass hiring guesswork. The Combined Basic Skills – Chemical Operator test is part of the Combined Basic Skills Tests battery.
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Combined Basic Skills – Clerical
The Combined Basic Skills Clerical is a part of the CBS Series for assessing Reading Arithmetic Inspection and Measurement Troubleshooting and more, in industrial roles. The assessment is a rapid, entry-level screening test designed to measure foundational clerical competencies, administrative accuracy, and problem-solving skills within industrial and manufacturing environments. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 64-item multiple-choice exam focuses on practical, day-to-day workplace tasks rather than complex administrative theory. This test is part of the Combined Basic Skills Tests battery.
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Combined Basic Skills – Custodial Services
The Combined Basic Skills Custodial Services is a part of the CBS Series for assessing Reading Arithmetic Inspection and Measurement Troubleshooting and more, in industrial roles. The Combined Basic Skills – Custodial Services assessment is a rapid, entry-level screening test designed to measure foundational literacy and problem-solving skills for maintenance and facility roles. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 24-item multiple-choice exam evaluates practical, on-the-job competencies rather than complex theory to help employers make objective hiring choices. This test is part of the Combined Basic Skills Tests battery.
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Combined Basic Skills – Electrical
The Combined Basic Skills Electrical is a part of the CBS Series for assessing Reading Arithmetic Inspection and Measurement Troubleshooting and more, in industrial roles. The Combined Basic Skills – Electrical assessment is a rapid, entry-level screening test designed to measure foundational technical, reading, and math skills for industrial settings. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 52-item multiple-choice exam evaluates practical, on-the-job mechanics rather than complex engineering theory to help employers make objective hiring choices. This test is part of the Combined Basic Skills Tests battery.
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Combined Basic Skills – Food Industry
The Combined Basic Skills – Food Industry assessment is a rapid, entry-level screening test engineeredto measure foundational technical, literacy, and mathematical skills within the food manufacturing sector. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 42-item multiple-choice exam evaluates on-the-job competency—including Reading Comprehension, Arithmetic, Process Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Team Skills—rather than dense academic theories. Available in both online and paper formats with instant automated reporting or quick hand-scoring options, this EEOC-compliant screening tool is highly optimized for evaluating job applicants or existing employees for food production, packaging, and general plant floor support roles. It is fully legal for use in Canada. This test is part of the Combined Basic Skills Tests battery.
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Combined Basic Skills – Mechanical
The Combined Basic Skills – Mechanical assessment is a rapid, entry-level screening test engineered to measure foundational technical, literacy, and mathematical skills for industrial environments. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 52-item multiple-choice exam focuses on practical, on-the-job mechanics rather than dense academic theories. This test is part of the Combined Basic Skills Tests battery.
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Combined Basic Skills – Metric
The Combined Basic Skills – Metric assessment is a rapid, entry-level screening test engineered to measure foundational technical, literacy, and mathematical skills utilizing metric units for industrial environments. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 52-item multiple-choice exam focuses on practical, on-the-job mechanics rather than dense academic theories. This test is part of the Combined Basic Skills Tests battery.
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Combined Basic Skills – Tools
The Combined Basic Skills – Tools assessment is a rapid, entry-level screening test engineered to measure foundational technical, reading, and hardware skills for industrial environments. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this concise 81-item multiple-choice exam focuses on practical, hand-on competencies rather than dense mechanical theories. This test is part of the Combined Basic Skills Tests battery.
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Combined Basic Skills Tests
The Combined Basic Skills (CBS) Tests are a comprehensive suite of entry-level screening assessments developed to measure essential foundational competencies across diverse industrial, service, and administrative roles. Designed to be completed in under 30 minutes, these highly efficient multiple-choice tests evaluate practical workplace knowledge rather than abstract theory to help employers make data-backed hiring and promotion decisions.
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Combustion Control Technician
The Combustion Control Technician test is a journey-level pre-employment skills assessment designed to evaluate a candidate’s advanced mechanical and electrical trade knowledge for high-stakes industrial operations. Taking under 30 minutes to complete, this extensive 118-item multiple-choice exam focuses strictly on practical field competence rather than abstract engineering theory to ensure employers make objective hiring and promotion decisions.
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Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory
The Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI) is a 15-to-30-minute assessment and training tool designed to evaluate an individual’s capacity to adjust to overseas relocation, travel, and immersion in new cultures. Available in both online and paper formats, this unique test measures cross-cultural adaptability independent of a person’s prior language skills or international experience. Rather than just testing basic awareness, it scores four critical dimensions—Emotional Resilience, Flexibility/Openness, Perceptual Acuity, and Personal Autonomy—to provide an actionable roadmap for developing practical global communication skills.
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Customer Service Skills Test
The Customer Service Skills Test is a 56-minute, timed pre-employment assessment designed to measure both foundational clerical skills and customer service aptitude for frontline roles across any organization. Available in both online and paper booklet formats, this dual-language test blends cognitive evaluations with situational logic to see how an applicant reacts to daily workplace scenarios. It scores multiple practical dimensions—including reading comprehension, numerical reasoning, attention to detail, and customer service logic—to deliver an intensive five-page performance report for hiring managers.
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DISCstyles Assessment
The DISCstyles Assessment is a highly validated behavioral profile designed to help organizations understand how personal chemistry impacts everyday employee success, leadership, and communication. Taking only 10 to 15 minutes to complete via online or paper formats, this concise 30-item assessment evaluates a person’s behavior across three distinct contextual settings—work, home, and social—to plot a highly accurate view of their preferred operating style. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. Military, the tool generates a personalized report that maps an individual’s strengths, communication preferences, and underlying workplace motivations.
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Electrical Aptitude Test
The Electrical Aptitude Test is a quick, under-30-minute screening assessment designed to measure an individual’s foundational potential to understand electrical layouts, process flows, and relevant mathematics. This 36-item multiple-choice test is available in both paper and online formats, helping employers evaluate a candidate’s baseline capacity to learn technical trade skills before investing in extensive training resources.
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Electrical Entry
The Electrical Entry test is a 30-minute screening assessment designed to evaluate entry-level applicants on their fundamental electrical knowledge and practical skills. This 60-item multiple-choice test is available in both online and paper formats. It helps employers make informed hiring and promotion decisions by verifying technical capabilities across seven core areas before investing corporate capital into training.
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Electrical Learner Series
The Electrical Learner Series (formerly the Electrical Repair Apprentice Battery) is a modular pre-employment testing suite designed to screen electrical apprentice candidates for foundational technical aptitude and learning readiness. This series features five standalone multiple-choice tests (ranging from 25 to 40 items each) that can be purchased and administered separately depending on an employer’s specific onboarding focus. Symmetrical to the needs of trade programs, it is more challenging than a generic basic skills battery but less demanding than a full maintenance trainee exam, making it a perfect tool to predict an applicant’s long-term on-the-job training success.
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Electrical Maintenance Trainee
The Electrical Safety Knowledge test is a paper-based, journey-level assessment designed to screen electrician and maintenance applicants on their technical competency and safety protocols. This 60-item multiple-choice test takes less than an hour to administer and is scored by hand. It helps industrial facilities and manufacturing operations look past generic resumes to verify that candidates possess the practical knowledge required to operate safely around high-voltage setups and equipment.
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Electronics & Instrument Technician
The Electronics & Instrument Technician test is a comprehensive, journey-level screening tool designed to evaluate the technical knowledge and practical skills of industrial maintenance applicants. This robust 100-item multiple-choice test takes less than 30 minutes to complete and is available in both online and paper formats. It helps manufacturers and industrial facilities look beyond generic resumes to verify an applicant’s ability to troubleshoot complex digital circuitry, process controls, and automated software networks before investing significant company training budget.
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Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment
The Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment (EISA) is a 50-item training and development tool designed to measure and improve adult emotional intelligence across five key areas. Requiring under 30 minutes to complete or score, this assessment is available in both online and paper formats, and it requires no professional certification to administer. Rather than a standalone test, it functions as a comprehensive workshop curriculum—complete with workbooks and facilitator guides—to help individuals identify their personal strengths, understand how they control emotions, and develop action steps for professional success.
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Employability Skills Inventory
The Employability Skills Inventory (ESI) is an 80-item self-report assessment designed to help individuals quickly evaluate their own workplace strengths and weaknesses to improve their job readiness. Taking only 20 minutes to complete in either online or paper formats, this self-scoring and self-interpreting questionnaire evaluates critical skills directly mapped to federal SCANS requirements. It provides administrators with a fast snapshot of a client’s core capabilities while giving individuals clear improvement strategies and action worksheets to build their professional value.
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Employee Screening Questionnaire
The Employee Screening Questionnaire 2 (ESQ2) is a 15-minute, personality-based pre-employment test designed to evaluate an applicant’s conscientiousness, integrity, and long-term job commitment. This 27-question assessment uses an innovative “forced-choice” format—where applicants must choose between statements that are equally desirable—making it exceptionally resistant to “faking good” and up to two times more powerful at predicting future work behaviors than traditional transparent measures. Available in both online and paper formats, it screens for a wide range of positive and counterproductive habits using a massive validation norm group of 98,000 applicants. (Note: This particular assessment is not designated as legal for use in Canada).
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Facilities Maintenance Technician
The Facilities Maintenance Technician test is a journey-level technical screening tool designed to evaluate a candidate’s knowledge of general building maintenance, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems within manufacturing and processing plants. This 60-item multiple-choice test takes under 30 minutes to complete. Available in online or paper formats (and multiple languages including English, French, and Spanish), it provides employers with data-driven insights to make informed hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions.
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GIOTTO Personal Integrity Test
The GIOTTO Personal Integrity Test accurately assesses ones personal workplace integrity across seven dimensions.
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Group Styles Inventory
The Group Styles Inventory is the only research-based tool that provides a valid and reliable measure of how people in groups interact with each other and work as a team to solve problems.
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Interpersonal Skills Test
The Interpersonal Skills Test assess candidates on their interpersonal, customer service and teamwork skills as well as their workflow management abilities.
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Job Style Indicator
The Job Style Indicator helps measure the work style requirements of a specific job, role, or responsibility.
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Leadership Skills Inventory – Self & 360°
The Leadership Skills Inventory – Self & 360° are self-administered/self-scored leadership evaluation, coaching, learning, and development tools for individuals and teams.
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Maintenance Troubleshooter
Use the Maintenance Troubleshooter test for selecting maintenance employees who have mechanical and electrical maintenance knowledge at the journey level.
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Manager’s Job Style Indicator
The Manager’s Job Style Indicator to help you prioritize the types of tasks and the style behaviors required in the position.
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Managing to Excel2 Making Decisions & Weighing Risks
The Managing to Excel2 Making Decisions & Weighing Risks course helps to distinguish between problem solving and decision making and explores how you behave when you make decisions by yourself and with others.
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Mechanical Learner Series
Use the Mechanical Learner Series tests to assess knowledge of basic mechanical concepts, tools, reading, and troubleshooting skills.
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MultiCrafTest
Use the MultiCraft Test for selecting maintenance employees who have knowledge in seven different craft areas.
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Numerical Data Interpretation Test
Assesses numerical reasoning ability, related to the interpretation and manipulation of the types of numerical data routinely encountered in the workplace.
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Organizational Effectiveness Inventory®
The Organizational Effectiveness Inventory® provides valid, reliable, and usable “climate” data on the structures, systems, technologies, and skills/qualities that shape your culture and how they can be modified and developed to improve long-term effectiveness at the individual, group, and organizational levels.
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Personal Style Indicator
The Personal Style Indicator self-assessment helps you and your clients discover your natural preferences towards time, people, tasks, and situations. It provides you (and others) with self-awareness that’s positive and motivates people to take action to improve relationships – of personal, professional and with yourself.
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The Ethical Type Indicator
The Ethical Type Indicator helps identify, articulate, and defend the ethical principles that govern and influence your ethical and moral decision-making.
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Time Management Effectiveness Profile
Collect self or 360-degree feedback on time management and measure 7 different competencies with the Time Management Effectivneess Profile.
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Transferable Skills Scale Inventory
Use the Transferable Skills Scale Inventory to help identify an individual’s strongest transferable skills across 96 task areas.
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Wesman Personnel Classification Test
The Wesman Personnel Classification Test (Verbal Reasoning) measures the ability to reason through analogy and the perception of verbal relationships.
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Wind Turbine Technician Test
Use the Wind Turbine Technician Test to assess the skills and knowledge of job candidates applying to wind turbine maintenance positions.
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Workplace Excellence Inventory
Helps individuals identify the basic skills and strategies needed to successfully transition to the workplace and demonstrate excellence in their job performance and assesses: Critical-thinking, Work ethic, Career management, Soft skills, Leadership, Teamwork
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