Online Assessments and Surveys

Why Assessments?

By utilizing the most renowned and accurate assessments in psychology, clients will discover how their current staff and job candidates operate emotionally, intellectually, interpersonally, and on several other dimensions in the workplace. Clients can even learn about their own work styles and preferences. Learning about, identifying, and retaining the very best employees allows an organization to understand and best utilize high potential employees and performers. These instruments inform recruiting, hiring, selection, succession, and other relevant on-the-job decisions ensuring good fit-to-position and strategic planning.

Why DRIC?

For convenience, our staff will administer psychological, work personality and career assessments on a web browser. Test-takers are therefore able to complete the assessments in a setting and time period that works best for them. Our standard assessment package is based in the science and practice of psychology, and tailors to the wants and needs of the client. The tests are some of the most widely used and recognized tools that psychology has to offer, and we are dedicated to making the experience worthwhile and rewarding for our clients.

Likewise, DRI Consulting has dedicated 20 of years to helping people achieve success using our effective and user-friendly assessment process! To that end, we are pleased to offer work personality assessment tools online for your convenience and for faster service. DRI Consulting uses widely known and used assessment instruments that are held in high regard across industries and organizations. We base our interpretations and recommendations on groups of data, rather than singling out one particular item or assessment method. All of our consultants have advanced graduate degree psychological training in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of psychological assessments.

We are also open to the use of other reliable and valid tools that our clients are familiar with and prefer.

Proven benefits of pre-employment testing

• Using professionally developed and validated tools
• Higher productivity through accurate prediction of future job performance
• Increased employee retention
• Reduction in costs associated with turnover (e.g., hiring and training costs)
• Increased defensibility of the hiring process by using objective data
• Overall, increased likelihood of hiring candidates who will perform well on the job

Benefits of Our HIGH TOUCH/HIGH TECH Assessment Process

Samples of Assessments

Cognitive Ability Assessment:

We offer both timed and untimed intellectual ability assessments. Both instruments measure and compare job-specific thinking skills of participants. They are highly predictive and able to provide customized results that are fit to occupational level and position. They can also be normed on national samples, company, function, or team-specific comparison norms.

• Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WG)
• Employee Aptitude Survey (EAS)

Personality/Work Personality Assessment:

We offer a variety of work personality assessments. These instruments reveal the different interpersonal and intrapersonal styles a candidate utilizes in one’s professional and personal life. The CPI, for example, provides data about the participant’s preferred styles that can inform career fit. The CPI is a powerful tool that finds and develops successful employees and leaders. It also offers a comparison of the participant to successful manager profiles on an overall leadership scorecard. The most widely used personality inventory in the world; the MBTI determines the participant’s preferences on four core aspects of personality.

Work Personality assessment tools are also used to assess participants’ emotional competency for high-risk, high-stress positions, or special positions of power and influence such as those in religious or other ministry work. Work personality assessments can also inform fitness for duty evaluations. The MMPI-2, for example, presents in-depth, occupation-specific information—with tailored reports for six public safety fields.

• California Psychological Inventory (CPI260)
• Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation – Behavior (FIRO-B)
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• 16 Personality Factors (PF)
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory- 2 (MMPI-2)
• DRIC Personal History Survey
• Strong Interest Inventory (SII) and Skills Confidence Inventory (SCI)

Emotional Intelligence Assessment:

Emotional intelligence is a cross-section of emotional and social competencies that determine how well an individual understands and expresses themselves (i.e. self-awareness), understands and relates with others (other-awareness), and copes with daily demands and pressures. At DRI, we are doctoral-level psychologically-trained business consultants that have unique clinical skills, and we integrate a variety of data when determining an individual’s Emotional Intelligence.

• California Psychological Inventory (CPI260)

Conflict Management Testing:

Conflict management assessment measures how the participant approaches conflict situations. The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) is the world’s best-selling instrument for understanding how different conflict-handling styles affect interpersonal and group dynamics. The different styles measure whether and how often a person uses conflict styles such as competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding or accommodation. This tool also provides information on the participant’s leadership and interpersonal strengths in conflict situations, and can help highlight developmental needs, and team-building, leadership, coaching, and retention goals.

• Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument

Leadership Specific Dimensions Assessment:

Leadership dimensions assessments are used to assess specific leadership competencies that are fit to position. They can assess candidates’ competencies for special positions of leadership such as front-line supervisors, senior executives, cops, doctors, and business owners, to name a few.  Our tools find and develop successful employees and leaders. Also, they offer a comparison of the participant to successful leader profiles and dimensions.

• California Psychological Inventory (CPI260)
• DRIC Job Functions Survey

Change-Management, Satisfaction, Culture Assessments:

Today organizations seek solutions to a variety of problems:

• What issues may be getting in the way of effective performance?
• What are the training needs in our enterprise or our team?
• Is our organization ready for change?
• What change is needed in order to get us headed in the right direction? What are the priorities of our people and our business?

At DRI, we are doctoral-level psychologically-trained organizational consultants and we use our unique clinical skills to integrate a variety of data when determining an organization’s culture, level of satisfaction, need and capacity for change.

360 Degree Feedback Surveys:

360-degree feedback surveying is a method of systematically collecting assessments about an individual's work performance from a wide range of collaborators. This often includes peers, direct reports, managers, and the boss’s peers— in addition to people outside the organization, like consumers or customers. This comprehensive data collection style provides visibility to a wide range of insights rather than just relying on self-report or or self-perception, giving the assessor a more complete picture.

We use an all-encompassing, custom-designed approach to assessing management competencies and attributes—as defined by the client, relevant scientific literature on position-specific competencies, and other important factors like organizational culture or developmental needs.

Free Surveys

• Organization Effectiveness Survey - Assess your own organization with DRIC's online Organization Effectiveness Survey. This is a free, no-obligation tool to help you evaluate the strength of your organization. This is also an introduction to our model for improving organizations.

• Teamwork Survey - In what stage of success is your team operating today? What do we do to improve?

• CareerWorks Survey -Thinking about a career move? In the process of looking for a new job? Starting or building your own business? This is a free, no-obligation tool to help you evaluate your strengths and coaching needs.