{ "assessmentTests": { "competency_test": { "name": "Competency Test", "desc": "How do you actually work? This self-rating covers six areas of work behavior: communication, problem solving, leadership and initiative, planning and organization, adaptability and teamwork. There are no right answers. Choose the option that matches what you do most of the time, not what you would like to do.", "recommendation": "Your competency profile", "stem": "Think of the last few months. Choose what you actually do, not what you would like to do.", "questions": [ { "question": "When I explain something at work, I check that the other person understood it the way I meant it.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "When something goes wrong, I look for the cause before I try a fix.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I take responsibility for how a group's work turns out, even when the task was not formally mine.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I decide what matters most before I start my day or my week.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "When plans change at short notice, I adjust and keep moving.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I share information my colleagues need without waiting to be asked.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I change how much detail I give depending on who is listening.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I go with the first solution that comes to mind.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I wait for instructions before I take a next step.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I give a realistic time estimate and say early when a deadline is going to slip.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I find it hard to work when the way things are done keeps changing.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I help a teammate who is overloaded, even when it is not my job.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I put off a difficult conversation until the problem has grown.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I break a large problem into smaller parts and work on them one at a time.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I make sure people know what is expected of them and why it matters.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I start a task without a clear idea of what finished looks like.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I pick up a new tool or method when my work calls for it.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I do my own part and leave the rest of the team's work to the others.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I put the main point first in an email or update, so the reader does not have to hunt for it.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "When I get stuck, I wait for someone else to find the way forward.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I notice work that needs doing and start on it without being asked.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "A deadline tends to catch me by surprise.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "After a setback, it takes me a long time to turn to the next task.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "When a colleague and I disagree, I look for what we both need before I argue my side.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "In a meeting, I stay quiet even when I have something that would help.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I compare at least two options before I decide how to handle a problem.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "When I hand work to someone else, I end up redoing it myself instead of explaining what I need.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I keep track of what I have promised, so nothing is lost between meetings.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "I change my approach when the first one is not working.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] }, { "question": "In a team result, I mention my own part more than the part others played.", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Almost never" }, { "icon": "🌘", "label": "Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌖", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost always" } ] } ], "results": { "communication": { "name": "Communication Comes Out Strongest", "desc": "Of the six areas, your answers put communication highest. You describe checking that your message landed, fitting it to the listener and raising hard topics before they grow. This is how you describe your own habits, not a measure of skill, and a colleague watching you work may see it differently.", "recommendation": "Put the habit to work on purpose. Look for work where you brief, explain or hand over, and in an interview give one real example of a message that landed. Then look at your lowest area below and pair the two." }, "problem_solving": { "name": "Problem Solving Comes Out Strongest", "desc": "Of the six areas, your answers put problem solving highest. You describe looking for the cause before a fix, splitting large problems into parts and comparing options before you commit. This is how you describe your own habits, not a measure of skill.", "recommendation": "Keep a short record of problems you solved: what the cause was, which options you weighed, what you chose. Those notes become your interview examples and show you which kinds of problem you handle best." }, "leadership": { "name": "Leadership and Initiative Come Out Strongest", "desc": "Of the six areas, your answers put leadership and initiative highest. You describe taking responsibility for a group's results, starting work without being asked and making clear what is expected. This is how you describe your own habits, not a measure of skill.", "recommendation": "Leading at work starts before a title does. Pick one place where you already act this way and write it on your resume as a result: what you started, who you brought along, what changed." }, "planning": { "name": "Planning and Organization Come Out Strongest", "desc": "Of the six areas, your answers put planning and organization highest. You describe deciding what matters first, giving honest time estimates and keeping track of what you have promised. This is how you describe your own habits, not a measure of skill.", "recommendation": "Make the habit visible. When you take on a task, send the person who asked a line that says what done looks like and when. Over a few months it becomes the evidence that you are reliable." }, "adaptability": { "name": "Adaptability Comes Out Strongest", "desc": "Of the six areas, your answers put adaptability highest. You describe adjusting when plans change, learning new tools when the work calls for them and changing course when the first approach fails. This is how you describe your own habits, not a measure of skill.", "recommendation": "Collect two or three real changes you handled, such as a new tool, a changed deadline or a new manager, and what you did first. Those are the examples that make this strength believable to someone who has not seen you work." }, "teamwork": { "name": "Teamwork Comes Out Strongest", "desc": "Of the six areas, your answers put teamwork highest. You describe sharing what others need, helping when a teammate is stretched and looking for common ground in a disagreement. This is how you describe your own habits, not a measure of skill.", "recommendation": "Name a specific time you helped a team get something done that you could have skipped. A concrete example, with the other people in it, says more than the word teamwork on a resume." }, "still_building": { "name": "Still Building Your Profile", "desc": "None of the six areas reached a strong level in your answers. That is common at the start of a career, after a change of role, or when you rate yourself strictly. It is a starting point, not a verdict: this is a self-rating of habits, and habits change faster than most skills.", "recommendation": "Choose the one area that matters most for the work you want next, and pick one small habit from its description below. Practice it for two weeks, then take the test again and compare." } }, "dimensions": { "communication": { "name": "Communication", "desc": "Getting your point across clearly, checking that it landed, and speaking up when it matters.", "high": "You often check that your message landed, fit it to the listener and raise hard topics before they grow. Those habits sit behind clear updates, fewer misunderstandings and fewer problems that grow in silence.", "mid": "You communicate well in some situations and less in others. Many people at this level are clear when the topic is easy and slip when it is awkward or the audience is new. Find the situation where you slip and practice it on purpose.", "low": "Your answers say communication is where you act this way least often right now. One small habit goes a long way: lead with the main point, then ask the other person to say back what they heard." }, "problem_solving": { "name": "Problem Solving", "desc": "Finding the cause, weighing options and getting unstuck without waiting to be rescued.", "high": "You often look for the cause first, split big problems into parts and weigh options before you commit. That is the pattern behind fixes that hold up instead of fixes that need fixing again.", "mid": "You solve problems well in some situations and rush or stall in others. If you jump to the first answer under pressure, add a pause to name two options. If you stall, shrink the problem to its next small step.", "low": "Your answers say you reach for the first answer, or wait to be rescued, more often than you would like. Start small: before you act on a problem, write down the cause you suspect and one other option." }, "leadership": { "name": "Leadership & Initiative", "desc": "Taking ownership, starting what needs doing and making clear what is expected.", "high": "You often take ownership, start work without being asked and make expectations clear to others. Those are the habits people notice when they decide who should get more responsibility.", "mid": "You take ownership in some situations and wait in others. Look at where you wait: often it is where the role is unclear or a mistake would feel personal. One small step nobody asked for each week builds the habit.", "low": "Your answers say you usually wait for direction and tend to keep work rather than hand it on. Leading does not need a title. Start with one thing this week that nobody asked for, and say plainly what you need when you hand work on." }, "planning": { "name": "Planning & Organization", "desc": "Deciding what matters most, estimating time honestly and keeping track of what you have promised.", "high": "You often decide what matters before you start, give honest time estimates and keep track of your commitments. That is what makes you easy to rely on when several things are due at once.", "mid": "You plan well in some weeks and not in others. A common pattern at this level is good planning when the work is clear and loose planning when it is not. A five-minute list of what finished looks like for each task closes much of the gap.", "low": "Your answers say planning is where you act this way least often right now. Try one change: at the start of each day, write the one thing that must be done, and what done looks like. Add more only when that holds." }, "adaptability": { "name": "Adaptability", "desc": "Adjusting when plans, tools or priorities change, and recovering after a setback.", "high": "You often adjust quickly when plans change, learn new tools when the work calls for it and change course when the first approach fails. That helps most in roles where priorities shift often.", "mid": "You adapt well to some changes and find others harder. Notice what kind of change slows you down: a sudden plan change, a new tool, or a setback. Each has a different fix, so name yours before you work on it.", "low": "Your answers say change costs you more effort than you would like. That is common and workable. When something changes, write down what stays the same first, then the one thing that has to change, and start there." }, "teamwork": { "name": "Teamwork", "desc": "Sharing information, helping others and working through disagreement toward what everyone needs.", "high": "You often share what others need, help when a teammate is stretched and look for common ground in a disagreement. Those habits make a group easier to work in, and easier to ask for help.", "mid": "You work well with others in some situations and keep to yourself in others. Many people at this level do well with people they know and hold back in a new group. Share one useful thing a day unprompted, and see how it lands.", "low": "Your answers say you tend to do your own part and keep your distance from the rest. Start with information: tell someone one thing they would want to know before they have to ask. It is small, and it is where teamwork starts." } }, "ui": { "yourResult": "Your result", "scoresTitle": "Your rating for each area", "levelHigh": "Strong", "levelMid": "Developing", "levelLow": "Early stage", "limitsTitle": "Honest limits", "limits": "This is a self-rating. It shows how you describe your own habits, not how a manager or colleague would rate you, and it does not measure skill. It does not predict job performance or hiring decisions. Rate yourself the way a fair colleague who has watched you work would.", "instrument": "In-house self-rating, not a validated instrument. The statements are original to JobCannon.", "scaleNote": "The levels (70% and above, 45 to 69%, below 45%) are our own cut points, not norms. Nothing here compares you with other people." }, "retakePrompt": { "lastResult": "Last time, your strongest area was {archetype}.", "evolvedHint": "Answer from the last few months, not from how you would like to work. Habits that changed since last time will show.", "retakeButton": "Take the test again" } } }, "testNames": { "competency-test": "Competency Test" } }