The Criterion Personality Questionnaire is unlike anything else on the market. We don’t subscribe to a one-size-fits-all approach to personality; the CPQ offers unparalleled flexibility by allowing you to pick and choose the elements you want to measure.
The CPQ is made up of 46 scales split across five key areas of personality at work. These elements are:
Interpersonal Style – The candidate’s approach to working with others, taps into their style of communication and preferences for working around others
Thinking Style – The candidate’s approach to tasks, decisions and challenges
Emotional Style – The candidate’s reaction to the emotional demands of the role
Motivations – Understanding what drives the candidate and helps them to feel energised and motivated at work
Culture Fit – Understanding the style of environment that is best suited to the candidate
We provide the following 3 options for you to choose from:
1. OFF-THE-SHELF OPTION
Psycruit offers two off-the-shelf personality questionnaires, both of which include a range of scales from across the five elements.
The Criterion Core (21 Scales) – Comprehensive insight into the typical preferences and tendencies for behaviours, feelings, values and motivations that are important in the workplace. This questionnaire takes about 20 minutes for the candidate to complete. Using the Core questionnaire will give you access to two specialised reports; Team Strengths Report & Sales Report.
The Criterion Enhanced (30 Scales) – Builds on the Criterion Core, offering a deeper insight across a breadth of elements of personality in an occupational setting. This questionnaire will take about 30 minutes for candidates to complete. Using it will give you access to our Leadership Report.
2. BESPOKE OPTION
Psycruit allows you to build your own personality questionnaire so you can tap directly into the traits you are interested in for the role you are recruiting for or developing. You can pick any combination of the 46 scales in the Library and structure the selection according to your own values/competency framework or use our default headings. Telling the platform ‘what good looks like’ will give you access to the Selection Report.
3.INDUSTRY SPECIFIC
We now have a collection of industry specific questionnaires that are available on Psycruit. These have been developed through role research and the expert knowledge and experience of our business psychologists. All of our off the shelf questionnaires also contain the social desirability scale in addition to those scales listed below.
The language, format, and appearance of the questionnaire are important determinants of the attitudes or impressions individuals form towards the instrument. When the face validity is poor these perceptions are likely to be negative in nature. The instrument therefore may be irrelevant to the job. The library was designed to ensure high levels of face validity by including a number of measures in the design specification for the instrument:
1. Transparent items – the content of the items are clearly related to the content of the scale definitions.
2. Business English – the items are worded in language that can be easily understood by anyone using English in the workplace.
3. Occupationally relevant – items avoid any terms not appropriate to the workplace. For instance, items measuring interpersonal scales avoided referring to ‘parties’.
| Accessibility |
We will use the online portal Psycruit for administering the personality profile. The portal meets Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) which incorporates a screen reader and a feature to change the colours on the screen should your candidates need any adjustments. Should your candidates need any other reasonable adjustments, please contact Talent Grader or Psycruit. |
| Data Protection | Psycruit will remove your candidates’ personal data after 6 months and but their anonymised scores are kept for norm groups. The data is held in the UK for 6 months. |
| Reliablity | The internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) of each refined scale was calculated, all were found to be above acceptable limits. Intercorrelations were calculated between the 46 scales and were found to be moderate. Reliability scores were gathered on a scale by scale basis with all but one scale ranging between 0.65 – 0.91 (Cronbach’s alpha). A full breakdown of reliability scores can be provided on request. |
| Validity | Construct validity The construct validity of the scales library was initially tested against the Business Personality Indicator (BPI), the 16PF and the CPI, with coefficients ranging from --0.30 to 0.68. Construct validity of the CAL (Criterion Attribute Library) against the MBTI has also been carried out more recently. Further information can be provided on request.
Content validity The development of the scales library included two stages of item analysis in order to ensure high levels of content validity: • Qualitative item analysis – all items were checked for their relevance to the scale they measure • Quantitative item analysis – any items not loading effectively onto a scale were excluded
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| Title of the Report | Insights Report | Cost (exc. vat) | $0.00 | |
| Training required to use this report? | No | Sample Report | ||
| Brief Description | Describes the individual’s personality profile and contains information about every scale. Information is presented as a summary, highlights their strongest preferences, and then detailed insights about each scale included in the questionnaire. Multiple reports can be generated from the same questionnaire to avoid candidates having to complete the PQ again and again. |
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| Title of the Report | Interviewer Report | Cost (exc. vat) | $0.00 | |
| Training required to use this report? | No | Sample Report | ||
| Brief Description | Suggests interview questions based on the personality profile and gives detailed guidance about interpreting the social desirability scale. |
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| Title of the Report | Onboarding Report | Cost (exc. vat) | $0.00 | |
| Training required to use this report? | No | Sample Report | ||
| Brief Description | Designed for the line manager of the successful candidate, it tells the line manager how to get the best from the individual based on their unique personality. |
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| Title of the Report | Personal Feedback Report | Cost (exc. vat) | $0.00 | |
| Training required to use this report? | No | Sample Report | ||
| Brief Description | Feedbacks to the scores to the individual and gives them valuable advice for selfdevelopment. |
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| Title of the Report | Team Strengths Report | Cost (exc. vat) | $0.00 | |
| Training required to use this report? | No | |||
| Brief Description | Explores the individual’s style and areas of strength within a team |
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| Title of the Report | Sales Report | Cost (exc. vat) | $0.00 | |
| Training required to use this report? | No | |||
| Brief Description | Uses personality information to inform about the individuals strengths within a sales role. |
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| Title of the Report | Leadership Report | Cost (exc. vat) | $0.00 | |
| Training required to use this report? | No | Sample Report | ||
| Brief Description | Uses Criterion’s Leadership model to illustrate the individual’s key strengths and development needs in a leadership role. |
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| Title of the Report | Selection Report | Cost (exc. vat) | $0.00 | |
| Training required to use this report? | No | Sample Report | ||
| Brief Description | Describes degree-of-fit between the individual and the requirements of a given job role (available if questionnaire is job matched). |
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