Personality Information

The Hire Success Personality Profile Test allows job applicants (and current employees) to assess the degree to which different adjectives describe their behavior at work. The resulting information helps determine an applicant’s personality type (or types).

Using a 5-point scale and a list of 100 adjectives, applicants decide if an adjective applies to them often, sometimes or rarely (if ever). If a person feels that an adjective often or almost always applies to his/her behavior, he/she enters a value of "1.” If the adjective seldom (or almost never) applies, the person may enter a value of "5" next to that word. Values of 2-4 can be used to express varying degrees between "often" (1) and "seldom" (5).

Once the answers are entered into the Hire Success System, the Personality “Engine” applies the self-assessment data to lists of characteristics that describe each of four "traditional" personality types. These personality types can be traced back to the "father of medicine,” Hippocrates, in ancient Greece over 2,000 years ago.

Hippocrates named the four personality Types after body fluids: the Choleric, the Melancholic, the Phlegmatic and the Sanguine.

Many different descriptions have been given to the four personality types since Hippocrates, but the Hire Success System gives the four types a simple A-D nomenclature. Please refer to the table below to see a cross-reference between the Hire Success Personality Types ("A", "B", "C" and "D") and those of other common personality tests and theories. If you’re familiar with any of these other tests, it should make understanding the Hire Success System even easier.