The Achiever
The Achiever is a unique test in that it combines mental and personality measurement
in one instrument. It also has a scoring system that provides scores on a scale
that can be related to the Normal Distribution and that easily relates scores to
the job requirements by means of a benchmark of successful performers.
The Achiever measures the following aptitudes and traits:
Six Mental Aptitudes:
- Mental Acuity
- learning comprehension, judgment, reasoning and problem-solving ability
- Business Terms
- knowledge of basic business terms
- Memory Recall
- knowledge of current events as they relate to the job
- Vocabulary
- general English vocabulary skills
- Numerical Perception
- ability to handle numerically related tasks quickly and accurately
- Mechanical Interest
- measures interest in the mechanical area
Ten Personality Traits:
- Energy
- energy, drive, tension and stress levels
- Flexibility
- integrity, reliability, dependability and work ethics
- Organization
- personal orientation to plan and utilize time wisely
- Communication
- innate ability to meet and interact with people
- Emotional Development
- ego, self-esteem, self-confidence and ability to handle pressure
- Assertiveness
- strength and determination to get one's way
- Competitiveness
- team orientation versus individualistic competitiveness
- Mental Toughness
- psychological stamina to deal with life and job problems
- Questioning/Probing
- instinct to question and probe rather than accepting things at face value
- Motivation
- security-motivated or recognition, incentive and commission oriented
The Achiever also contains two validity scales to assess the accuracy of The Achiever
report:
- Distortion
- frankness of the respondent as related to the statistical validity of the personality
dimensions
- Equivocation
- consistent decision-making of the respondent as it relates to the accuracy of
the personality dimensions measured
The Achiever uses the Stanine scoring system to compare an individual’s scores
to a benchmark and the Normal Distribution. To learn more about the Stanine system
and Benchmarking with The Achiever, click the links below:
Stanine
Benchmarking
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