Clinical Professional Career Battery

Primary Use – Predicting success in entry level clinical care, non nursing jobs
Assessment Type  – Mix of competency, personality, biodata
Job Level – Entry
Job Type  –  Allied Health jobs, such as Radiologist, therapists, pharmacists, etc.
Number of Items – 113
Estimated Time – 40 minutes (timed)
Administration Format – Proctored or Unproctored

The Clinical Professional Career Battery (CPCB) helps accelerate and improve hiring by quickly identifying individuals who possess the profile critical to success in today’s fast moving and changing health care environment. The CPCB can be used as part of a process for hiring new employees in positions requiring clinical focus in health care organizations or as a way to place current employees into new or existing roles.

What It’s Best Used For

This screening battery is best utilized during the initial recruiting phases or internal talent matching cycles to predict employee success in allied health roles before extending a job offer.

• Targeting Allied Health Personnel: It is highly optimized for screening professionals across multiple clinical support disciplines, including Respiratory Therapists, Physical Therapists, Pharmacists, Social Workers, Dieticians, and Diagnostic Support Specialists.
• Measuring Patient-First Mindsets: The assessment evaluates an applicant’s dedication to patient and customer focus, verifying that care and high-quality work remain driving forces behind their individual activities.
• Verifying Operational & Safety Standards: It thoroughly gauges a candidate’s workplace habits under clinical pressure, specifically scoring safety advocacy, stress tolerance, multitasking, and time prioritization.
• Evaluating Cognitive & Team Skills: The test maps vital soft skills required for collaborative environments, tracking critical thinking, collaborative teamwork, active listening, and communication clarity.
• Streamlining High-Volume Hiring: The platform delivers automatically generated Candidate Profile Reports that outline performance outcomes, developmental tips, and a targeted bank of suggested interview questions.

The unproctored platform is formatted in English and is entirely legal for use in Canada.

DDI’s Clinical Professional Career Battery is designed to quickly and efficiently identify the best candidates for positions requiring clinical focus in your organization. Candidates have a maximum time of 75 minutes to complete the assessment but typically take 35-40 minutes.

It Assesses

CRITICAL THINKING: Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.

Collaboration

Working cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals.

Prioritizing Time & Multitasking

Establishing an action plan for self and others to complete work efficiently and on time by setting priorities, establishing timelines, and leveraging resources.

Demonstrating patient/Customer Focus

Ensuring that the internal or external patient/customer perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet patient/customers’ and own organization’s needs; promoting and operationalizing patient/customer service as a value.

Demonstrating Safety Advocacy

Taking responsibility for conditions that affect patients’, own, and others’ safety; identifying conditions that might cause health or safety hazards and taking action to remove those hazards.

Delivering High Quality Work

Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.

Handling Stress Effectively

Maintaining stable performance under pressure or opposition (e.g., experiencing time pressure, conflict, or job ambiguity); handling stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and to the organization.

Demonstrating A Learning Orientation

Conveying information and ideas clearly and concisely to individuals or groups in an engaging manner that helps them understand and retain the message; listening actively to others.

Communicating Effectively

Conveying information and ideas clearly and concisely to individuals or groups in an engaging manner that helps them understand and retain the message; listening actively to others.

Engagement Readiness

Demonstrating a willingness to commit to one’s work and to invest one’s time, talent, and best efforts in accomplishing organizational goals.

Common Job Titles

• Respiratory Therapist
• Diagnostic Support Specialist
• Physical Therapist
• Pharmacist
• Social Worker
• Dietician

Candidate Profile Reports are automatically generated and include the following sections

• Band or Overall Score
• Performance Indicators
• Performance Outcomes
• Interview Questions
• Development Tips
• Verification Questions