Behavioral Assessment Tools: Fun, Not Fearful

It’s been our experience that, initially, some folks are a bit hesitant or afraid to take a personality assessment.  Their primary concern is usually worrying about how they will “look” to their boss, or prospective employer.  However, it’s also been my experience that once I have an opportunity to talk with these individuals, their perception [...]

Finding Your Personal Leadership Style

I am often asked if there is a specific personality style that someone needs to have in order to be a successful leader.  I often answer this question by saying yes and no.  I have seen trends that suggest that certain personality types are more successful leaders, but then you always find people that don’t [...]

How Companies Are Making Better Hiring Decisions

For the last few years, companies were instituting hiring processes that included a number of best practices, but were avoiding the use of tools, such as personality assessments, to assist them in identifying the best candidates. Today,  we are seeing a significant increase in the use of particularly effective personality assessments to enable hiring managers [...]

What Makes a Good Personality Test?

There are many different sorts of personality tests, word list choices (which is most like me or least like me), statement list choices, rate this statement as to how much it reflects who you are, picture tests asking you to interpret what you are seeing, lickert scale response tests, ipsative tests and a host of [...]

Prudent Risk Taking and Other Such Terms

Consultants usually have their own jargon that they consistently use to describe various behaviors their clients demonstrate.  Over the years, ECI has devised or adopted several of these terms.  The interesting thing to me is that as we work with clients for the long term, many of them begin to speak in the same terminology. [...]

International Hiring Processes

I just returned from a trip to Europe where during our mealtimes we ate with people from a variety of countries.  Of course, as always occurs, people ask “what do you do?”.  When I told them that our business was providing psychological testing to help companies hire, manage and develop high performers , the discussion [...]

Great Behavioral Event Interview Questions

The most common search that leads to our website is for ECI Interview Questions.  Whether this is precipitated by prospective candidates whom employers have asked to complete the ECI Behavioral Insight or by employers themselves is more difficult to determine.  Behavioral event interview questions ask the candidate about prior successes or learning resulting from an experience in past [...]