Career Advancement Profile – Revised

Use the handy Career Advancement Profile – Revised assessment to evaluate how well a person is prepared for an advancement in his or her career.

Purpose

The Career Advancement Profile – Revised was developed to evaluate how prepared a person is for an advancement in his or her career. It will provide information on whether an employee has the attitude, traits, and behaviors needed to move up the ladder.

What It’s Best Used For

This validation-ready instrument is best utilized by HR professionals, hiring managers, and career counselors for pre-employment screening, professional development mapping, or as an internal motivational tool.

• Evaluating Healthy Motivators: It measures the specific internal drivers that push an individual to succeed, scoring their desire for Growth, Responsibility, Leadership, and Stimulation.
• Gauging Emotional Preparedness: The test maps a candidate’s mental readiness to handle promotion pressures by tracking Confidence, Initiative, Coping with Stress, and Adaptability.
• Industry-Specific Benchmarking: It allows employers to instantly compare individual data charts against the general population or customized standards across 25 distinct industries.
• Streamlining Talent Audits: The platform generates an immediate digital report featuring score graphs, detailed narrative interpretations, and an impression management scale to catch candidates attempting to distort their answers.

Application

• Pre-employment
• Professional development
• Motivational Tool

Scales

• Growth
• Responsibility
• Leadership
• Stimulation
• Confidence
• Initiative
• Coping with Stress
• Adaptability

No. of questions: 46
Question type: Situational, self-report
Estimated completion time: 15 minutes
Shorter versions of assessment: N/A
Recommended age level: 18+
Qualification Level: Class A
Compliance: APA standards; EEOC standards (gender, age, disability, ethnicity)
Validation Information:
Sample Size: 11,025
Cronbach’s Alpha: 0.98

Features

Benchmarks: Available (general population and 25 industries)
Group Comparisons: Available

Report Includes

• Summary
• Introduction
• Graphs
• Detailed narrative interpretation
• Strengths and Limitations
• Advice
• Impression Management

Factors and Scales

Overall Score plus 2 factors, divided into 8 scales:

• Healthy Motivators: Different types of motivators that drive people to succeed.
• Growth: Desire to gain new skills and eagerness to grow.
• Responsibility: Interest in gaining new and expanded responsibilities.
• Leadership: Desire to take on a leadership role.
• Stimulation: Assesses whether a more stimulating environment is needed.
• Preparedness: Degree to which a person is mentally and emotionally prepared for advancement.
• Confidence: Degree of self-confidence that is exhibited in the workplace.
• Initiative: Tendency to display proactive behavior.
• Coping with Stress: Assesses how well stressful situations are handled.
• Adaptability: Ability to deal with changes in the work environment.