Wonderlic Select: Personality 
Personality
Personality assessments tell you how a candidate will likely behave on the job.
One of the three signals measured by Wonderlic Select.
Personality assessments tell you how a candidate will likely behave on the job.
One of the three signals measured by Wonderlic Select.
Personality assessments reveal information about a candidate’s temperament and overall reliability, because a person might be capable of doing a job but not particularly suited to succeed in that job. Combined with cognitive ability insights, employee personality tests further confirm that you have chosen the right fit based on their predicted on-the-job behavior.
At Wonderlic, we only include constructs and insights that add predictive power to our results. Research has shown that combining data from a work personality test with cognitive ability data, the single-best indicator of job performance, provides another lens through which to review qualified candidates. Personality tests add what is called incremental validity, a statistically meaningful layer of insight into whether candidates will be a good fit for a particular job.
The Wonderlic Select personality assessment measures five characteristics directly tied to job performance:
How readily someone works with and supports the people around them.
Follow-through and consistency, one of the two most predictive traits across nearly all roles.
Composure under pressure, the other most predictive trait across nearly all roles.
Comfort and effectiveness in interpersonal, people-facing work.
Receptiveness to new ideas, methods, and ways of working.
Based on the Five Factor model, our personality assessment is a predictor of future behaviors, both those considered strengths and weaknesses, as they relate to job performance. Like all Wonderlic Select components, personality is relatively stable throughout an adult’s life. The degree to which personality contributes to a candidate’s overall Wonderlic Select score depends on the complexity of the job: the more complex, the more weight cognitive ability receives and the less weight by percentage personality receives. But regardless of position, research has found that higher scores on personality traits have a positive relationship with job performance, with Dependability and Stress Tolerance being the most predictive of performance across nearly all roles.
Wonderlic Select combines cognitive ability, personality, and motivation into a single, predictive picture of each candidate.