Development Report

The Development Report is written for the job candidate in case you want to provide feedback. It provides a narrative description of the candidate's personality traits, a set of developmental suggestions and a score profile. It is useful as a standalone tool for further self-reflection and personal/career development or as part of a more comprehensive coaching process. It includes the Personality Profile information from the Interview Guide report, a more developmentally oriented version of the narrative description and several targeted developmental suggestions.

As with the Interview Guide report, the first section of the report consists of five narrative paragraphs, which cover the same topics. However, the wording is more developmentally oriented. The second part of the report contains developmental suggestions which are determined by the person’s most significant scores.

Refer to this sample Development Report for the following explanations and notes on the sections of the document.

Introduction (page 2). This section provides a description of the structure of the report and context for interpretation. It encourages the person to consider the input from his or her eTest results along with other sources of feedback, information and insight to develop a plan of action for growth. It points out that extreme scores represent the most prominent features of personality and, as such, they can reflect greatest strengths and potential weaknesses.

Narrative Report (page 3). Although the narrative report paragraphs parallel those found in the Interview Guide, they have more of a developmental slant. The purpose is to help the person understand himself or herself, rather than to alert a hiring manager about potential downsides. The Test Taking Approach paragraph presents the validity scale results. See the Interview Guide section and the Technical Manual for more information on these or any of the other scales. For the next four paragraphs (Problem Solving, Emotional, Social and Work Factors), the narratives are built from the personality profile and predictive scales described in the Interview Guide section. Again, the individual paragraphs are created sentence by sentence in order of probability of occurrence, without checking for contradiction or inconsistency.

Developmental Suggestions (page 5). The suggestions are generated from the most extreme scores on the profile. They sometimes reflect the potential downsides of some of the positive attributes that may be reflected in the score profile (the last section of the report), noting that the overuse of a strength can become a liability. These suggestions are in the form of paragraphs, rather than being created sentence by sentence. As such, they are more internally consistent than the narrative paragraphs of the previous section. They offer suggestions for positive change and reflection.

Personality Profile (page 7). This section is the same as the corresponding page from the Interview Guide report. It reflects the Big Five personality factors and their facet scores. The scores are compared against those of the general business population, rather than any particular job type.

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