Goal-Setting Skills Assessment

The Goal-Setting Skills Assessment is an intermediate-depth, 31-question self-report tool designed to evaluate whether a person’s goal-related attitudes and behaviours are set up for success. Taking only about 5 minutes to complete online, this assessment looks beyond baseline experience to measure a candidate’s practical adoption of goal-setting strategies, their self-belief (self-efficacy), and whether they take internal responsibility for their outcomes (locus of control). It provides hiring managers and team builders with an immediate narrative report—complete with graphs, strengths, and targeted interview advice to ensure new hires or existing staff possess the psychological framework needed to hit their benchmarks.

Purpose: The Goal-Setting Skills Assessment will evaluate whether a person’s goal-related attitudes and behaviour are conducive to success.

What It’s Best Used For

• Pre-Employment Screening: Vetting incoming job applicants early in your recruitment pipeline to identify natural self-starters before investing time and money into onboarding training.
• Predicting Execution Success: Pinpointing professionals who have the grit and self-efficacy required to follow through on challenging objectives rather than just planning them.
• Auditing Accountability Metrics: Measuring a candidate’s locus of control to separate proactive, internally motivated individuals from those who blame external causes when targets are missed.
• Internal Talent & Promotion Reviews: Evaluating existing corporate employees for advancement or strategic transfers by benchmarking their goal-setting habits against general population or industry standards.
• Structuring Target-Focused Interviews: Utilizing the report’s automatically generated interview questions to challenge job seekers directly on their operational limitations.

It is entirely legal to use in Canada.

Application

• Pre-employment

Scales

• Use of Goal-setting Techniques
• Self-efficacy
• Locus of Control

No. of questions: 31
Question type: Self-report
Estimated completion time: 5 minutes
Shorter versions of assessment: N/A
Recommended age level: 18+
Qualification Level: Class A
Compliance: APA standards; EEOC standards (gender, age, disability)
Validation Information:
Sample Size: 9654
Cronbach’s Alpha: 0.91

Features

Benchmarks: (general population and 24 industries)
Interview Questions: Available
Group Comparisons: Available

Report Includes

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

Factors and Scales

Overall Score plus 3 scales

• Use of Goal-setting Techniques: Adoption and utilization of solid strategies to help set and achieve goals.
• Self-efficacy: Belief that one has what it takes to not only set challenging goals but to follow through with them as well.
• Locus of Control: Assesses whether a person attributes the ability to achieve his or her goals to external or internal causes.