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SeniorSoftware Developer

Detail ReportName: Simon SampleCompany: Talegent PhilippinesDate: 19 Oct 2015

Senior Software Developer - Detail Report

2 Senior Software Developer - Detail Report for Simon Sample

Senior software developers need to combine amultitude of skills in order to ensure thatapplications and software are designed and builteffectively. They need to combine the skills ofresearch and design with the technical ability toeffectively execute a project.

This assessment will find those candidates whoare capable of combining numerical mindednessand critical thinking with the ingenuity to solveunexpected problems. They will also be required tohave excellent relationship building and teamworkskills in order to effectively work with teams.

IntroductionThis report contains sensitive personalinformation. You are advised to keep it ina secure location with minimum access.

This report is to be used for recruitmentand career development. The informationis intended to enable you to draw onhypotheses for further exploration in thedecision process, and should be used inconjunction with a robust selectionprocess.

A candidate’s results are producedthrough a comparison of their responseswith those of a relevant comparison group.This is a self-report questionnaire,meaning that a candidate’s resultsrepresent the way that they seethemselves and their behaviour, ratherthan necessarily how someone else mightdescribe them. Nevertheless, researchsuggests that self-report can be a powerfulpredictor of how they will operate at work.

Competencies

Achievement

Adherence

Building Relationships

Critical Thinking

Implementation

Ingenuity

Numerically Minded

Self-Insight

Teamwork



Achievement Adherence Building RelationshipsDemonstrates a strong focus onhigh performance standards andpersonal achievement. Sets self-stretch goals and workspersistently to achieve them.Displays high work focus, highlevels of energy, and goes aboveand beyond to exceedexpectations. Is ambitious andconstantly seeks to advance theircareer.

Values rules, guidelines, and setprocedures and adheres to theseclosely. Consistently followsthrough with deliverables in atimely manner.

Initiates and maintainsrelationships with colleagues, issocially confident and quick tobuild rapport. Tends to create apositive first impression andaffiliate well with individuals at alllevels, both internal and external tothe organisation.

Critical Thinking Implementation IngenuityCritically analyses and evaluatesinformation in a logical way whensolving complex problems. Breaksdown problems into smallercomponents and seeks to identifyunderlying causes.

Is reliable, detail-focused andmeticulous. Follows through onplans to ensure they are carriedout accordingly.

Generates and implements newand innovative solutions, ideas,and approaches to problems. Isstrategically minded, future-orientated and anticipates issuesbefore they arise. Takes a broadperspective and is open to takingcalculated risks.

Numerically Minded Self-Insight TeamworkIs comfortable with and capable ofinterpreting numerical informationand using this to aid in problemsolving. Has a preference for usingnumbers and hard data whensolving problems.

Is aware of own strengths andweaknesses and actively seeksout opportunities for new learningand growth. Strives to keepabreast of the latest industrytrends and technologies.

Supports and collaborates withteam members to achieve targets.Appreciates the benefits ofdiversity and works well with avariety of people.



Candidate - Simon Sample Comparison Group - Professionals

Start Time: 19 Oct 2015, 08:56 PM Finish Time: 19 Oct 2015, 08:56 PMCandidate ID: ABC-123 Session ID: AAAA-1111

Recommended Below Average Average Above Average

Overall ScoreSimon's overall fit with therequirements of the role.

79th percentileAbove Average

Component CompetenciesAchievementSetting high performance goals forself, demonstrating high energy,being ambitious.

38th percentileAverage

AdherenceFollowing rules, guidelines, andprocesses consistently.


Building RelationshipsInitiating and maintainingrelationships with others.

42nd percentileAverage

Critical ThinkingMaking decisions on the basis ofthorough analysis and logic.


ImplementationWorking in a focused and accuratemanner to deliver work to a highstandard.


IngenuityGenerating and implementing newand innovative solutions.

53rd percentileAverage

Numerically MindedEnjoying and being skilled at usingnumbers to solve problems.

81st percentileAbove Average

Self-InsightHaving an awareness of ownstrengths and weaknesses and beingopen to improvement.


TeamworkWorking in teams, prioritising teamgoals.

21st percentileBelow Average



Below Average Average Above Average

AchievementSetting high performance goals forself, demonstrating high energy,being ambitious.


High Scorers are likely to: About Simon's score

• Be highly driven to achievesuccess in the workplace.

• Need little encouragement topush themselves or acceptstretch goals.

• Enjoy opportunities tocompete against others.

• Be a high-energy,enthusiastic individual whothrives on being busy and tohave little trouble working atpace to complete urgenttasks or deliver on tightdeadlines.

• Be a highly engaged workerwho remains focused on allkinds of work tasks,including those that aremundane or complex,without encouragement fromothers.

• Reporting to be more competitive in the workplace than most,Simon is expected to be highly motivated by opportunities tocompare his performance to that of others. He is likely toexpend significant additional effort in competitive situations andto value winning.

• Reporting to a have a high level of work focus, Simon isexpected to consistently demonstrate engagement with hiswork tasks. He is expected to have little difficulty staying ontask even when working without supervision, engendering histendency to achieve in the workplace.

• Simon should be most comfortable working at a moderatepace. However, he is likely to adjust the amount of energy heexpends on the basis of what is required of him and should beable to cope with a heavier workload some of the time.

• Simon comes across as being less driven than most and mayrequire encouragement to push himself towards challenginggoals.

• It is likely that he would set modest goals that he feels he canachieve without too much difficulty.




AdherenceFollowing rules, guidelines, andprocesses consistently.



• Be compliant and rule-abiding, consistentlyoperating within establishedpolicies and procedures. Bededicated to adhering todeadlines and commitments,treating them as beingdefinite. Be effective atprioritising to ensure thatthey have allocatedappropriate resources tomeet goals. Take ameticulous approach to theirwork, be organised, diligentlyspecify milestones andresource requirements.Prefer structure andconsistency in theworkplace, and adhere torules, guidelines, and setprocedures.

• Reporting to be as compliant and rule-abiding as most, Simonis expected to operate within established boundaries andadhere to regulatory conditions, guidelines and procedures. Hemay challenge established policies, practises and proceduresonly if he deems them to be inefficient or out of date.

• Simon profiles as less concerned with adhering to deadlinesand commitments, and hence is expected to be less effectivethan his peers at ensuring he consistently delivers tasks andgoals on time.

• Simon is unlikely to take care to always adhere to guidelinesand task requirements, and may not make the effort to specifymilestones, timelines or resource requirements.




Building RelationshipsInitiating and maintainingrelationships with others.

42nd percentileAverage


• Come across as being highlysociable.

• Be effective at makingpositive first impressions andbuilding strong relationships.

• Be open to individualdifferences within theworkplace.

• Be highly attuned tointerpersonal cues such aspeople's body language ortone of voice and respond tothese appropriately.

• Readily change theirbehaviour on the basis of thesituation and whom they areinteracting with.

• Reporting to be more effective at making a positive firstimpression and building strong relationships than most, Simonis likely to dedicate a great deal of effort to making sure otherpeople feel at ease during interactions.

• Simon is expected to be highly open to individual differenceswithin the workplace and should easily establish commonground with people who have different perspectives to his own.

• Simon's responses suggest that he is a highly sociableindividual. He is expected to be very outgoing in the workplace.

• Simon reports that he is less attuned than most to interpersonalcues such as people's body language or tone of voice. Thus,when interacting with others, he is likely to behave in aconsistent manner, rather than adapting his behaviour to suitthe situation and the person he is interacting with.

• Simon profiles as being fairly sceptical of people's intentionsand abilities and may require other people to prove that theyare trustworthy before he will put trust in them. As a result of histendency to be cautious of others, he is unlikely to be takenadvantage of by other people.




Critical ThinkingMaking decisions on the basis ofthorough analysis and logic.



• Be quick to interpret andanalyse novel or conceptualinformation, identifyingissues readily.

• Be savvy at determiningcausality between issuesand outcomes.

• Take a critical perspectivewhen solving problems,investigating the underlyingfactors and root causes.

• Prefer working with data andfacts during problem solvingsituations, and to validatetheir instincts with expertadvice or empiricalinformation.

• Simon is expected to take a critical perspective when solvingproblems. He should really enjoy evaluating the strengths andlimitations of arguments or decisions and is likely to beconcerned with investigating the underlying factors and rootcauses of problems.

• Scoring in the average range on the logical reasoningassessment, Simon is expected to be as competent as othersat interpreting and analysing novel or conceptual informationand, thus, should identify issues as readily as others. He shouldbe about as quick as most at determining causality betweenissues and outcomes. Nonetheless, he may benefit from somesupport or expert guidance when faced with problems outsidehis usual realm of experience.

• Simon's responses suggest that he is as concerned as mostother people with examining data, opinions and factualinformation during decision making. When time is limited Simonwould likely firstly rely on his own intuition or experience to finda solution. Given more time or a more complex problem, he isexpected to use facts and figures to reach a defensiblesolution.




ImplementationWorking in a focused and accuratemanner to deliver work to a highstandard.



• Be self-motivated andfocused on their work.

• Be reliable and consistentlyfulfil commitments.

• Take a meticulous approachto their work and beinterested in working with thefiner details of a task.

• Be compliant and rule-abiding, consistently operatewithin established policiesand procedures.

• Simon reports to be a meticulous individual, and is likely toenjoy working with the finer details of tasks and diligentlyspecify and work to milestones and resource requirements. Heis likely to persevere with tasks to produce high-quality workwith few errors.

• Profiling as being as reliable as most people when it comes tofulfilling his work commitments, Simon should usually delivertasks and projects in a timely way. On occasion, he may missdeadlines due to ineffective time management.

• Profiling as being about as compliant as his peers, Simon isexpected to generally follow established policies, practices andprocedures. He may challenge them if he deems them to beinefficient or a hindrance to implementation.

• Simon's responses suggest that he might be fairly easilydistracted when completing tasks.

• It is possible that Simon spends a greater amount of work timeon low-priority or non-work tasks than his peers and, thus, hemay work best when his performance is being monitored.




IngenuityGenerating and implementing newand innovative solutions.

53rd percentileAverage


• Be creative and 'leadingedge' in generating ideasand in facilitating ideageneration in others.

• Take into consideration thelong-term feasibility ofinnovative products, ideas orsolutions.

• Have a high level of uptakeof their ideas as they areseen as beingknowledgeable and expert intheir job.

• Proactively keep abreast ofinformation, trends andtechnologies that mayimpact the business.

• Enjoy working with and becomfortable with risk anduncertainty whenconsidering strategicopportunities and ideas.

• Being more intellectually curious and placing greaterimportance than most others on being knowledgeable andexpert in his job, Simon is likely to proactively keep abreast ofinformation, innovations, trends and technologies that mayimpact the business, and utilise these to the benefit of thebusiness.

• Simon has indicated that he views himself as being lesscreative than most other people.

• He may try to facilitate idea generation in others rather thanattempting to create innovation himself.

• More focused on immediate issues, outcomes and the here-and-now, he is expected to spend little time visualising howinnovative ideas might play out over the longer term. He maynot take into consideration the long-term feasibility of a newproduct or solution.

• Simon's responses suggest that he will be more conservative inhis management of risk during brainstorming and strategicplanning. This may hinder his ability to innovative due to hishigh level of focus on the risks involved with opportunities.




Numerically MindedEnjoying and being skilled at usingnumbers to solve problems.

81st percentileAbove Average


• Critically analyse data whensolving problems.

• Enjoy numerically evaluatingthe strengths and limitationsof arguments or decisions.

• Be concerned withinvestigating the data toidentify the underlyingfactors and root causes ofproblems.

• Prefer working with data andfacts during problem solvingsituations.

• Validate their instincts withexpert advice or empiricalinformation.

• Simon's responses suggest that he is as concerned as mostother people with examining numerical data during decision-making and problem-solving.

• When time is limited Simon would initially rely on his intuition orexperience to find a solution. Given more time or a moredetailed numerical problem, he is expected to use numericalanalysis to reach a defensible solution.

• On a timed assessment of numerical reasoning, Simon scoredin the below average range. This suggests that he may be lessefficient than most when it comes to understanding, evaluatingand applying numerical information. While he shoulddemonstrate competence working with numerical concepts thatare familiar to him and very well practised, he may takesignificantly longer to analyse complex tables and data sets orto work with novel calculations in the role.

• Simon profiles as being less interested than most others incritically evaluating numerical information. Thus he is expectedto accept numerical information at face value rather thanconducting metrics to investigate how the factors relate to thesituation at hand.




Self-InsightHaving an awareness of ownstrengths and weaknesses and beingopen to improvement.



• Be aware of their strengthsand limitations.

• Be aware of and seek toaddress their owndevelopment needs.

• Be very receptive tofeedback and developmentalsuggestions, and should tryto improve theirperformance.

• Be intellectually curious.

• Continually develop andhone their knowledge, skillsand expertise.

• Simon reports that he is more intellectually curious than mostothers and places a high value on continually developing andhoning his knowledge, skills and expertise.

• He is expected to take up professional developmentopportunities in order to advance his professional standing.

• Simon's responses suggest that he is as aware of hispersonality, strengths and limitations as most people. Thus, it isexpected that he will make some effort to identify his owndevelopment needs, and be knowledgeable of industryupdates.

• Reporting to be less interested in discussing his developmentneeds with others, Simon is expected to be less receptive andresponsive to performance feedback from others.




TeamworkWorking in teams, prioritising teamgoals.

21st percentileBelow Average


• Place great importance onmeeting both their own andthe team's objectives .

• Initiate collaboration andknowledge-sharing amongstgroup members.

• Be less competitive thanmost, and work actively toenhance team cohesion andmorale.

• Work well with others withthe aim of producing betteroutcomes.

• Meet deadlines anddeliverable targets, andcontribute outputs to agreedstandards and timeframes.

• Reporting to be more flexible than most regarding deadlinesand deliverables, Simon may not work as diligently as others tocontribute information or outputs to agreed standards andtimeframes.

• As accepting as most of difference and diversity, Simon shouldbe open to seeking the views of a diverse range of people.However, he may be less tolerant of those who are markedlydifferent from himself in terms of values, opinions andbackground.

• Simon is expected to be comfortable working either in a teamsituation or independently, depending on what is required ofhim. Thus, Simon should generally be capable of balancing theneeds of the team with his own objectives.

• Simon reports that he is as empathetic towards others as most.In a team setting, he is expected to demonstrate an appropriatelevel of care and consideration towards his team members.

• Profiling as being less competitive than most, Simon is notexpected to use others' performance to benchmark his own,and would actively work to enhance team cohesion and morale.

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