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Re-frames for the Hot Reactor: Check Your Assumptions and Remember Your Purpose

Re-frames for the Hot Reactor: Check Your Assumptions and Remember Your Purpose

Think of the hot reactor process as a circuit with two switches. The first switch is throw...

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Credentials are Over-Rated: Hire for Skills

Credentials are Over-Rated: Hire for Skills

There is a critical shortage of people in the labor force with the “right” credentials, bu...

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Cognitive Dissonance: Keys to Understanding Irrational Behavior

Cognitive Dissonance: Keys to Understanding Irrational Behavior

Cognitive dissonance is a phenomenon that has been extensively studied by social psycholog...

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Quiet Quitting...Really? Here's a Better Strategy

Quiet Quitting...Really? Here's a Better Strategy

Quiet quitting is a term to describe the strategy of just doing the bare minimum needed...

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Complexity

Complexity

The trait of Complexity is one of the Big Five personality factors. It is sometimes known...

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The Trait of Agreeableness

The Trait of Agreeableness

Agreeableness is one of the Big Five personality factors. Agreeable people get along with...

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Behavioral Control: Conscientiousness

Behavioral Control: Conscientiousness

Behavioral Control is one of the major Big Five personality factors. It is often referred...

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Emotional Reactivity

Emotional Reactivity

Of the five major personality factors, Emotional Reactivity is most closely associated wit...

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Extraversion

Extraversion

Extraversion is a well-researched primary personality factor. It reflects an orientation...

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Leading in Bad Times

Leading in Bad Times

Leaders in tough times need to help their players reframe their current situations and see...

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The Structure of Personality: The BIG FIVE

The Structure of Personality: The BIG FIVE

There is now a professional consensus that personality can be accurately described by five...

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How to Choose a Test for Your Applications

Any individual test or test battery needs to be meaningfully tied to the job. If you're us...

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eTest Background and Development

The eTest personality inventory was originally developed as a result of Management Psychol...

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Why Measure Personality for Business Purposes?

The results from a wide variety of well-designed research studies have shown very strong e...

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Avoiding Potential Problems: the Three Biggest Mistakes in Testing for Business Purposes

Proper test construction and validation relies on statistically rigorous processes and sop...

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About the eTest Scales: Underlying Structure of the Reports

The eTest scales include the personality dimensions as well as predictive scores based on...

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Introduction Section

The introductory comments provide context for interpreting the report. The Interview Guide...

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Targeted Interview Guide

Use these results to prepare for your interview with the candidate; review the job require...

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Personality Profile

This section presents the candidate’s raw scores for the Big Five personality factors and...

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Empirical Scales

These dimensions were developed by correlating elements of the eTest profiles with a large...

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The Interview Guide Overview and Context

eTest is a standardized personality inventory developed and validated by licensed psycholo...

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Development Report

The Development Report is written for the job candidate in case you want to provide feedba...

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Leadership Report

The Leadership Report is designed primarily for use as a developmental tool to be shared w...

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Sales Report

The Sales Report can be used by managers and coaches to help a person reach his or her pot...

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