Job Style Indicator

The Job Style Indicator (JSI) helps you prioritize the types of tasks and the style behaviors required for a specific position.

The Job Style Indicator (JSI) is an online role-benchmarking assessment designed to measure the specific work style requirements and behavioral expectations of a given job position, role, or responsibility. Rather than testing a person’s individual career interests, this assessment focuses entirely on the position itself, mapping out its demands across 21 distinct style patterns. The test takes less than 30 minutes to complete online. It features an additional behavioral grid to establish ideal task-handling and interpersonal criteria, allowing employers to build a custom “blueprint” for a role before comparing it to a candidate’s actual personality profile.

Even though this assessment process is an important addition to the job selection process, performance improvement, and career planning, it is only one part of the hiring and/or development procedure. It is also necessary to completely define the needs of the job and/or role and the job’s requisite skills, competencies, experience, and educational requirements.

The Job Style Indicator can assist you to do the following:

• Determine the required work style of a current/potential position, job or responsibilities
• Understand how other team members see the work style requirements for that position or role
• Identify the behavioral style of the responsibilities of a new venture or business opportunity
• Provide a roadmap to match each person’s preferred work style and work environment to help him or her more intentionally select the best job, role, and/or career
• Increase team performance through the shifting of work roles and responsibilities to better reflect team members’ job-fit
• Reduce staff turnover and work-related stress levels
• Develop plans for work style flexibility and improved role-effectiveness

The JSI has an additional work behavioural grid that helps you establish the preferred working behaviours for both tasks and interpersonal skills.

What It’s Best Used For

• Defining clear role benchmarks: Setting the exact work style requirements and performance expectations for an open position or updated responsibility.
• Evaluating candidate alignment: Comparing the role’s established style pattern directly with a job seeker’s profile to predict sustainable motivation and engagement.
• Clarifying workplace responsibilities: Assisting recruiters and career centers in establishing mutual understanding regarding what a job actually demands.
• Fostering intentional team building: Outlining how a specific role interacts with data and other staff members to ensure a harmonious department structure.
• Informing long-term retention strategies: Identifying potential gaps between employee comfort zones and a job’s reality to prevent workforce burnout.

Use to:

• Confirm Style Pattern and Requirements For A Role
• Clarify Responsibilities
• Confirm Behavioral Expectations
• Establish Mutual Understanding
• Confirm Working Style Needs

Who can benefit:

• Employers
• HR and Hiring Managers
• Employees for Role Fit
• Potential Employees For Hiring
• Career Centers
• Recruiters
• Teams

Unless the style pattern of the person and the working style of the position match, the individual’s motivation and level of engagement is simply not sustainable.

The JSI automatically calculates your scores and determines which of the 21 JSI style pattern(s) applies to your specific position. The results are stored in your very own Individual Learning Center where you can view, print, or forward (email) the results to anyone at any time. The JSI can also be completed as part of any Corporate Learning Center (CLC) and stored for use by that individual, group, or organization.

Languages

English, Arabic, Chinese – Simplified, Swedish

The Job Style Indicator (JSI) does not determine what career you or another person should consider. Rather, it helps you measure the work style requirements of a specific job, role, or responsibility. Once you establish the exact work style requirements (pattern) of a position, you then compare the style of the applicant or current person in the role from one of our other style assessments including the Personal Style Indicator, Sales Style Indicator, Entrepreneurial Style & Success Indicator, and Instructional Style Indicator.