Individual & Professional Skills

Help Your Organization Adapt, Evolve, and Lead Through Change

Future-proof your organization with our new Individual & Professional Skills Assessment

The Individual & Professional Skills assessment is a 20-minute, online or paper-based behavioral and personality test designed to evaluate crucial “power skills”—the human-centered abilities needed to work effectively with people, adapt to change, and make good decisions in technology-driven workplaces. Built by Pearson Assessment, Inc., this unproctored assessment scores candidates across 9 core traits—including goal achievement, adaptability, attention to detail, and stress tolerance—to map out how well professionals can navigate shifting digital landscapes and AI integrations. The platform utilizes sophisticated technology to mitigate faking and cheating behaviors to ensure highly reliable, predictive data reporting.

Power skills are the capabilities that help us work effectively with people, adapt to change and make good decisions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the professional landscape, transforming how work is performed, how teams collaborate, and what skills are essential for success.

As business expectations, digital tools, and global market dynamics evolve at unprecedented speed, traditional training programs often struggle to keep pace with the demands of a modern, technology‑driven workplace. Research has identified the key capabilities that enable professionals to thrive in today’s rapidly changing environment. Individual & Professional Skills Assessment helps employers evaluate these critical competencies, enabling organizations to identify top talent, strengthen team performance, and foster continuous professional development.

Primary Use: Selection/Development
Assessment Type: Behavioural & Personality
Job Level: All
Job Type: Any
Estimated Time: 20 minutes
Administration Format: Unproctored
Norms: General Population

Available Languages

• English

Benefits

• Short – Approximately 20 minutes
• Measures skills critical to success today
• Reliable, predictive scores
• Sophisticated technology mitigates faking and cheating behaviors
• Enables informed talent acquisition decisions

What The Individual & Professional Skills Measures

1. Achieves Goals – Setting and achieving challenging goals; working hard; persisting in the face of significant obstacles; striving to produce high quality work.
2. Adapts to Change – Easily and effectively handling change; adapting behavior in response to new information, changing conditions, unexpected obstacles, or specific norms; working effectively with many different types of people, situations, and constraints.
3. Complies with Rules and Regulations – Demonstrating honesty and trustworthiness; trying to do what is right and ethical; following rules, laws, regulations, policies, and procedures; accepting authority.
4. Cooperates with Others – Valuing agreement, consensus, and cohesiveness in interpersonal interactions; being responsive to others’ needs, providing information and assistance to meet those needs.
5. Develops Rapport with Others – Seeking out a variety of social situations, including those requiring tact and/or discretion; being sociable, warm, likable, and cooperative; being easy to work with.
6. Pays Attention to Detail – Being thorough, precise, and organized while working; establishing and tracking details; spotting minor imperfections or errors and taking action to correct them.
7. Takes Responsibility for Actions – Being reliable, well organized, orderly, and planful; holding self accountable for results and deadlines, accepting responsibility for mistakes.
8. Tolerates Stress and Criticism – Maintaining composure in stressful situations; maintaining a positive outlook when criticized.
9. Understands Others – Recognizing and understanding others’ states of mind or emotions; demonstrating compassion toward others; taking care of others in need.

What It’s Best Used For

• Vetting mid-level and advanced professionals: Screening external candidates or internal applicants across any organizational level to ensure they possess the necessary soft skills to complement technical abilities.
• Evaluating tech-disruption adaptability: Measuring an employee’s natural capability to seamlessly handle sudden corporate updates, new digital tools, and structural AI transformations.
• Pinpointing professional training gaps: Auditing an active workforce’s core strengths to isolate collective soft-skill deficiencies and direct targeted professional development funding.
• Auditing corporate ethics and accountability: Tracking an individual’s underlying tendency to take responsibility for mistakes, follow organizational regulations, and respect structural authority lines.
• Assessing interpersonal collaboration readiness: Measuring how effectively a professional can build workplace rapport, show empathy, maintain poise under heavy criticism, and foster team cohesion.

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