Buyer Test

Screen candidates for buying and purchasing roles who can deal with figures, administration, vendors, build strong relationships and be firm with the Buyer Test.

Purpose

Your business needs buyers who can save you money. Period. It’s as easy as that – buy low, sell high. So when you are hiring for buyer positions, you need candidates good at working with a lot of detailed figures and administrative tasks; who can deal with vendors either by phone or in-person so that positive relationships can be built, and are hard-nosed and firm about getting the best deal possible for the company. These buyer qualifications are key. Using the Buyer Test ensures you hire buyers with the right abilities and personality for the job.

Buyer Tests will identify candidates with the ability to work with details, build positive relationships and deal with vendors either by phone or in person. Best fit employees will be achievement motivated and understand how to negotiate rates that are advantageous to your company. In addition, these tests will reveal if candidates have the qualities necessary to influence others, make decisions efficiently and in an ethical manner, and promote a service-minded environment.

What It’s Best Used For

This screening instrument is best used during the initial recruitment phase or internal promotion pipeline to identify profitable, cost-conscious purchasing agents, procurement specialists, and buyers.

• Balancing Hard-Nosed Negotiation with Diplomacy: It specifically isolates candidates who possess the firm, gritty posture needed to aggressively lock in the lowest prices for your business while maintaining a polite, professional demeanor that builds long-term vendor partnerships.
• Verifying Complex Data Handling: The cognitive mental ability module ensures that potential hires have the sharp logical, verbal, and numerical agility required to confidently process massive sets of detailed logistical figures.
• Evaluating Administrative Accuracy: It gauges an applicant’s natural comfort level with heavy administrative tasks, helping you select organized professionals who will manage purchase logs cleanly.
• Optimizing Follow-Up Vetting: Hiring managers instantly receive an online performance dashboard detailing a graphical score map, a breakdown of hidden developmental risks, and a customized bank of suggested interview questions.

The unproctored testing platform supports both English and Spanish language tracks, allows for custom corporate validation modeling, and is entirely legal for use in Canada.

About the Test

The Buyer Test will take most individuals about 75 minutes to complete although it will vary from person to person because both components are untimed. This test battery has two parts:

• 149-questions in an untimed personality inventory
• 44-item test of mental ability.

Optional Add-On

A Career Development Report for Individuals is available to be added for a nominal charge.

Versions

Express

Approx. 30 Minutes – This short but thorough assessment includes many of the personality traits also found in the Full test version, but has:

• A smaller number of personality trait measures
• A timed test of General Reasoning

Core

Approx. 45-60 Minutes – A more rigorous pre-hire screening created for Buyer candidates in a variety of work environments. The test battery includes:

• A personality trait section
• An untimed General Cognitive Aptitude Test

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 Buyer Test Evaluates

(Note: the asterisk (*) denotes that the personality dimension is included in the Core version of the test.)

Sample Questions