Work Character Test: How Reliable Are You?

About this instrument

Brains and skills matter, but what makes people trust you is usually something else: honesty, ownership, and how dependable you are . This test looks at five character strengths at work or on projects, and which one stands out most in you.

What you'll get:

Your core character strength out of five: Integrity, Accountability, Dependability, Persistence and Self-Control

A score for each aspect, plus what you could work on

Ideas for talking about your strengths, for example in an interview

A result card to save and share

About this test: 15 sets of statements and 20 work situations, about 15 minutes. In part one you pick the statement that's most and least like you. In part two you pick what you'd most likely do. This is a self-reflection test that is still in development, not a validated psychological test.

Source: Mindovia Original. The concept, statements, scenarios and result texts were all developed by the Mindovia team. The five aspects draw on research into honesty and integrity at work (Ones, Viswesvaran & Schmidt, 1993; the HEXACO model of Ashton & Lee, 2007), facets of conscientiousness such as dependability and industriousness (Roberts et al., 2005), grit (Duckworth et al., 2007) and self-control (Tangney, Baumeister & Boone, 2004). It uses a forced-choice format and situational judgment questions. It does not use items from any published scale and is not affiliated with these researchers.

What it reflects on

• Integrity
• Accountability
• Dependability
• Persistence
• Self-Control

How to take it

Think about yourself at work, at uni, or on projects with other people.

Part one: each question has 3 statements, all of them positive. Pick the one that's most like you and the one that's least like you .

Part two: read the situation and pick what you'd most likely do , not what sounds ideal.

There are no right or wrong answers. Answer based on what you usually do.