Business Development Professional Test
The Business Concepts (U.S.) Test is a quick, 19-minute online screening assessment designed to measure a candidate’s understanding of foundational business practices and commercial fundamentals within the United States. This efficient 30-question exam gives test-takers up to 3 minutes per question, utilizing a secure web-based format tailored for both new applicants and existing staff.
About this Test
Identify candidates who are competitive hard-driving, goal-oriented, bright, capable of learning and dealing with abstract concepts with the Business Development Professional Test.
Purpose
The Business Development Professional test batteries identify dynamic communicators who can help your company identify new growth opportunities and advance key business goals. A curated personality profile assesses best fit behaviors like relationship-building, networking, strategizing, money motivation and stress tolerance. The addition of aptitude and sentence completion components help you assess general problem-solving and analytic abilities, workplace attitudes and motivators.
What It’s Best Used For
This test is best used during the early pre-employment phase to verify broad financial, operational, and legal literacy across roles in human resources, marketing, general business, and financial planning.
- Broad Topic Evaluation: It scores candidates across 8 essential business pillars, including Business Law, Financial Management, General Business, Human Resources, and Marketing.
- Testing Legal & Compliance Awareness: The test gauges a candidate’s baseline familiarity with critical legal themes such as bankruptcy, contracts, liability insurance, tax laws, torts, and labor laws.
- Verifying Financial Literacy: It measures whether an applicant understands foundational accounting structures, the budgeting process, financial statements, and ratio analysis.
- Assessing Operations & Social Ethics: It evaluates a potential hire’s grasp of production control, resource allocation, e-commerce, and corporate social responsibility or ethics.
The unproctored platform generates an immediate online score report to help hiring managers make data-driven selection decisions, and it is fully legal for use in Canada.
About the Test
This test is untimed but should take about two hours to complete. It consists of three parts:
- 144-question personality inventory
- 44-item test of general cognitive aptitude with about equal number questions for verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, and abstract reasoning
- 46 open-ended questions that require the candidate to type in their own short answer.
Versions
Express
Short but thorough, this sales-focused assessment combines personality + aptitude. It consists of 2 parts:
An untimed personality assessment targeting behaviors specific to this type of job.
A timed test of General Reasoning
Core
A balanced, challenging personality + aptitude pre-hire screening created for strategic sales professionals in a variety of market sectors. It consists of 2 parts:
An untimed personality assessment targeting behaviors specific to this type of job.
An untimed General Cognitive Aptitude Test (includes verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning)
Core+
An in-depth, comprehensive screening created for candidates responsible for business growth in a wide range of industries. The test battery includes:
An untimed personality assessment targets behaviors specific to this type of job.
An untimed General Cognitive Aptitude Test (includes verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning)
An untimed set of open-ended statements to which the candidate has to type in a short answer
Optional Add-On
A Career Development Report for Individuals is available to be added for a nominal charge.
What the Report Gives You
Graphical display of scores, explanation of aptitude results, list of strengths and developmental concerns, display of the narrative comments given to the open-ended statements, and suggested interview questions.
Testing Process
Online personality testing provides immediate reporting. Proctoring is desirable but not required.
Options
Contact us to learn how we can customize the test content or the way information is presented in the report to meet your specifications. We can also help you validate an assessment for your workforce or establish company-specific scoring.
Validity Information: Available upon request.
The Business Development Professional Test Evaluates
| Less Desirable Behaviors | Test Content | Desirable Behaviors |
|---|---|---|
| Slow to learn new tasks, handles limited amount of information at one time | General Cognitive Aptitude* | Quick learner, make complex decisions easily |
| Slow to learn new tasks, handles limited amount of information at one time | General Reasoning† | Quick learner, make complex decisions easily |
| Simplistic thoughts, negative attitudes, grammatical mistakes | Open-ended Statements | Articulate, meaningful comments, expresses positive attitudes, no grammatical mistakes |
| Argumentative, contentious | Agreeableness* | Easy to get along with, amiable |
| Does not want to be responsible for the work of others | Assertive Leadership*† | Comfortable directing and controlling work of others |
| Is not motivated to outperform others | Competitiveness* | Desires to be the best and outperform others |
| Fails to live up to promises | Conscientiousness & Orderliness*† | Reliable, dependable |
| Interested in his their tasks; does not care much about how their work impacts others ability to get their job done | Customer Responsiveness† | Attuned to what others’ need in the workplace; cares about helping others who depend on them |
| Not service minded | Customer Service Orientation* | Enjoys serving people |
| Overreacts to stress, gets upset easily | Emotional Resilience† | Calm, level-headed, handles stress well |
| Immature, unpredictable, moody | Emotional Stability* | Mature, stable, predictable |
| Motivated by enjoyment of everyday tasks, not by opportunity for extra pay | Extrinsic Motivation* | Motivated by pay, benefits, bonuses, prizes |
| Prefers to deal with a small number of people | Extroversion* | Enjoys interacting with a lot of people |
| Not goal oriented | Goal-Setting* | Enjoys goals, uses goals regularly |
| Bends rules to suit self | Integrity*† | String ethical principles |
| Focus on enjoyment of the job | Money Motivation† | Focus on pay for performance |
| Sticks with tried-and-true approaches, resistant to new ideas | Openness to New Experience*† | Enjoys learning and new ideas, innovative |
| Sarcastic, sees thing in a negative light | Optimism*† | Cheerful, sees things in a positive light |
| Professional, detatched relationship with customers | Relationship Sales† | Bonds well with customer, uses friendship to enhance sales |
| Does not get out of his/her office or department often to build relationships | Social Networking*† | Strives to create effective relationships to serve company’s needs |
| Doesn’t want to coordinate with others | Teamwork* | Able to coordinate and work cooperatively |
| Focus on day-to-day problems | Visionary Leadership | Focus on strategic, big picture, long term issues |
| Does the minimum | Work Drive*† | Willing to go the extra mile |
(Note: the asterisk (*) denotes that the personality dimension is included in the Core version of the test; the dagger (†) denotes that the personality dimension is included in the Express version of the test.)
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