Measures key personality traits and behavioural dispositions
108 questions
Untimed. Typically takes around 10 minutes
Apprentices, graduates, professionals, managers, senior executives
Industry-leading computer adaptive questionnaire
Reduce adverse impact
Supervised or unsupervised
Customise to your role
In-depth version available
Designed for all sectors
High-volume recruitment, early stage screening, routine recruitment
13 norm groups available
PC, Mac, Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Mobile
Typically taking 10 minutes to complete, the TPAQ-27 is a swift, accurate, and cost-effective behavioural sifting tool.
Using the TPAQ-27 for high volume screening helps lower costs, save time and reduce the administrative burden on your HR team.
The TPAQ-27 measures the essential behavioural traits which underpin top performance in a wide variety of roles.
By using the TPAQ-27 early stage, you ensure that each candidate moving forward shows the desired behavioural traits and meets a minimum level of individual-job fit.
The TPAQ-27 provides a cheap and effective way to identify high performers for routine recruitment processes (i.e. graduate and apprentice schemes).
Using the TPAQ-27 for routine recruitment ensures only those showing sufficient individual-job, or individual-culture fit progress through the process and are selected to join the organisation.
Personality traits hold enormous sway over our potential productivity at work. In virtually all roles, personality questionnaires are useful predictors of future performance, making them invaluable selection tools.
The TPAQ™ is a next-generation, computer adaptive online personality questionnaire, designed to accurately measure key personality traits quickly, accurately and fairly, all while providing an exceptional candidate experience.
Hiring the right people is the most important thing your organisation will do.
Test Partnership applies cutting-edge predictive data science to hiring, and allows you to benefit from decades of research through our psychometric test tools.
Bring your selection process into the digital age with our fully mobile-responsive tests.
For improved diversity and inclusion, Test Partnership has optimised all our tests to achieve industry-beating low adverse impact.
All our tests are designed to identify high-performance whilst minimising adverse impact. We achieve this by trialling and re-trialling against tens of thousands of participants from all backgrounds.
The site can be personalised, is easy to navigate, and the ability to make your own tests is very beneficial.Charlotte Butt
Associate Partner – HR Lead
Daniel Watney LLP
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Talent Partner
Instant Impact
A reliable tool that helps us hire the best talent in the market. It gives us an overall view of the candidate’s performance in real-time.Rocel Magtibay
Human Resource Director
Helmi Talib Group
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Senior Recruitment Operations Manager
Bright Network
Below is the full list of all the traits measured by the TPAQ-27. Optionally you can weight specific traits applicable to your role.
Openness to Experience
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Resilience
Emotional Intelligence
Industriousness
Below is the full list of all the competencies measured by the TPAQ-27. Optionally you can weight specific competencies applicable to your role.
Personality describes a wide range of traits which collectively comprise a person’s character, temperament and behavioural preferences. Personality is integral to workplace performance, as a large number of personality traits are predictive of performance. Personality questionnaires therefore, are some of the most widely used selection tools.
The TPAQ is one of the most powerful personality questionnaires available today. Like our ability tests, the TPAQ also uses computer adaptive testing technology to maximise reliability and reduce questionnaire length. By only administering psychometrically optimal questions for each candidate, the TPAQ can reach an equal or greater level of reliability than comparable personality questionnaires, but in less than half the time. This means that the TPAQ can measure 45 traits in 20 minutes, or 27 traits in 10 minutes.
Personality questionnaires are designed to assess your general character and predict how you are likely to behave in the workplace. There are no right or wrong answers in a personality questionnaire and high scores do not necessarily mean better scores. This is the key difference with other psychometric tests or exams, such as aptitude tests, that you may have taken before.
The scale responses (i.e. Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree) will appear next to the questions, so you can check your responses and make sure you haven't made a silly mistake.
Always be as honest as possible during a personality assessment. Don't try to provide the responses that you think the employer will want to see, as you might not know exactly what they are looking for.
Make sure you read all of the questions properly. You can take time to reflect on them if you wish, but generally speaking your gut response will usually be most accurate.
Check you have everything you might need: an environment where you can concentrate properly, and your glasses etc. Personality questionnaires are untimed, so you can take as long as you need to complete them. If you lose internet connection during the test, don't worry, simply log back in and continue from where you were.
Test Partnership offers two pricing options: 1) pay-as-you-go, or 2) unlimited use subscriptions. On our pay-as-you-go pricing, candidates can complete any combination of assessments for the same cost, as we charge on a per-candidate basis not a per-assessment basis. On our unlimited usage subscriptions, you can test an unlimited number of candidates, using any combination of assessments for a fixed monthly or annual cost.
You can see a full list of our prices on our pricing page.
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