The New Packfinder™ Assessment

The New Packfinder™ introduces significant updates to improve candidate assessment and reporting for hiring professionals. This article provides a detailed overview of the changes, helping you understand how the updated features work and what they offer.

Packfinder™ Assessment: Overview and Enhancements

The Packfinder™ assessment has been redesigned to deliver a more comprehensive and reliable evaluation of job candidates. It measures 18 distinct personality traits across six groups (factors), offering a broader and more detailed profile than the previous version, which measured only six traits.

What’s Measured?

The new assessment evaluates traits grouped into factors. These are:

• Conscientiousness

• Agreeableness

• Honesty

• Emotional Stability

• Openness

• Extraversion.

These traits are chosen for their relevance to workplace behavior and job performance, providing meaningful insights into candidates’ strengths and compatibility with specific roles.

Key Improvements

• Trait Measurement Expansion

The number of traits measured has increased from six to eighteen, providing a more nuanced understanding of personality. Each trait is measured on a standardized scale from 0 to 10, simplifying interpretation.

• Impression score and Consistency Checks* (*coming later)

The assessment includes mechanisms to detect likely untruthful or inconsistent responses. These checks ensure that results are reliable, increasing confidence in hiring decisions.

• User-Friendly Design

Candidates now complete the assessment one question at a time in an interactive interface, reducing cognitive load and improving the completion rate. The total assessment time is approximately 10–12 minutes, balancing thoroughness and efficiency.

The Report: What’s New

The updated Packfinder™ Report has been restructured to improve readability and usability. It provides clear, actionable insights that help hiring professionals make data-driven decisions.

Key Features of the New Report

• Uniform Scoring Scale

All traits are measured on a 0 to 10 scale, making it easy to compare candidates’ scores across traits. This uniformity eliminates the confusion of varied scales used in the old version.

• Simplified Interpretation

Higher scores consistently indicate a stronger fit for desirable traits. This change avoids the ambiguity of “sweet spots” present in the previous version and ensures results are more intuitive.

• Streamlined Layout

Reports are now visually organized for quick access to key information. In addition to trait scores, reports include the time taken to complete the assessment and the lie detection score, enabling a more holistic review of each candidate.

How the Report Supports Hiring Decisions

The Packfinder™ Report offers hiring professionals clear insights into candidates’ suitability for roles by:

• Highlighting traits essential for success in specific positions.

• Simplifying comparisons between candidates with percentile rankings and visual summaries.

• Supporting informed decisions with actionable data, reducing reliance on subjective interpretations.

Benefits of the Updated Features

The updates to the Packfinder™ Assessment and Report are designed to:

• Save time by streamlining the evaluation process.

• Improve the quality of hires with deeper insights into candidates’ personality traits and compatibility.

• Provide a consistent and easy-to-use tool for objective decision-making.

Conclusion

The New Packfinder™ Assessment and Report represent a significant advancement in candidate evaluation. With expanded trait measurement, enhanced reliability checks, and improved reporting, these tools empower hiring professionals to make better-informed decisions, streamline their processes, and build stronger teams.

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