Personal Profile Analysis

A comprehensive assessment including work strengths, fears, motivators and value to an organization. Includes how one is likely to behave under pressure, how one modifies their behaviour in their current job and any current frustrations or problems.

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Interview Guides

These three Interviewer's Guide Reports are complimentary reports in the PPA System. They have been designed to support the other reports, increase the user’s understanding of the reports, improve interviewing skills, and enhance the depth of conversation with both candidates and employees.

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Executive Summary

Similar to the PPA Profile, this report is in point form for a quick read. It highlights modifications at work and under pressure, as well as appropriate responsibilities and how to maximize the individual’s strengths.

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How to Manage

This report provides guidance on how to manage the person, including the best form of support, best type of motivation, and the communication style best suited to that person.

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Customer Service Audit

Intended for in-person service roles, this report outlines how the individual is likely to handle client needs and criticism and describes their responsiveness, communication skills, problem solving style and goal orientation.

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Management Interview Questionnaire

This provides questions to probe the individual’s behavioural preferences, with a focus on management functions. It assists you to “get behind the candidate's mask" and understand their behavioural style.

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Management Audit

This reports on a person's strengths and possible limitations in relation to six key management competencies: managing and motivating; decision making; planning and problem solving; communication style; administrative ability; and how they develop others.

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Sales Interview Questionnaire

Provides questions to probe the individual’s behavioural preferences, with a focus on sales functions. Assists you in understanding their behavioural style.

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Sales Audit

The Sales Audit details a person's likely sales ability in relation to opening, presenting, closing, administration and servicing.

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General Interview Questionnaire

This provides questions to probe the individual’s behavioural preferences in general roles. This will assist you in understanding their behavioural style.

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Admin/Technical Audit

For those in a technical or administrative role, this report explores how one would function in: organizing workflow, meeting deadlines, problem solving and ensuring quality.

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Candidate Feedback

This short, positive report is designed to simplify feedback to a candidate. It provides descriptive words, general characteristics, motivators and values to the organization.

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Call Centre Audit

This audit identifies how a person responds to client needs, how they impart information, their problem solving skills, their likely persistence and sensitivity, as well as how they will promote products and services.

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Training Needs Analysis

This report identifies likely training needs and competencies for development.

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Career Guide

The Career Guide is used to identify opportunities and stimulate conversation in the area of career guidance. It enables you to target three career levels: entry, supervisory or middle management, and executive.

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Strengths and Limitations

This powerful report provides a list of likely work strengths and possible limitations. This is an excellent report for appraisals and identification of development needs.

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Job Profile

Completion of the HJA questionnaire or use of our interactive job profiling tool results in a behavioural job description based on your specific requirements. This will help focus your behavioural questions and forms the basis for objective comparison of people to jobs.


Sales Manager: Sample Report
Technical Specialist: Sample Report
Customer Service Representative: Sample Report

Personal Review

Excellent for self-awareness and positive appraisals, this report covers personal style, descriptors and general characteristics. It includes how to maximize on the individual’s potential and appropriate types of responsibilities.

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Comparison (person to job)

Individuals’ PPA results are compared to your Job Profile to evaluate “goodness of fit” of the person to the job. This report lists strengths and possible limitations against the job demands, to further focus the interview.

Sales Manager: Sample Report
Technical Specialist: Sample Report
Customer Service Representative: Sample Report

Compatibility (between two people)

This report highlights the work strengths of two individuals, details how they perceive each other and communicate, then gives advice on how to improve their working relationship.

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Search & Select

This tool allows you to search for the best candidate for a job and ranks candidates from best fit to worst fit for that job. It also allows you to select a person and provides a list of jobs (in your database) that person would fit ranking the job from best fit to worst fit.

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Graphs & Scores

Provides the three PPA graphs, which are the result of scoring the individual’s responses to the Personal Profile Analysis Questionnaire.

Graphs & Scores

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