{ "assessmentTests": { "work_ethics": { "name": "Work Ethics & Reliability", "desc": "How dependable, diligent, principled, and accountable you are at work - in 20 short questions.", "_source": "JobCannon original, first-person Likert items (5-point agreement) measuring four work-reliability facets (Dependability, Diligence, Integrity, Accountability). No published integrity-test items reproduced; written 2026-06-14 as the B2B hiring 'Work Ethics' read for the JobCannon hiring packages. License: JobCannon proprietary.", "recommendation": "Your work-reliability profile", "scaleIntro": "How much do you agree with each statement?", "questions": [ { "question": "When I commit to a deadline, I treat it as non-negotiable and plan my week around it.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "Colleagues know that if I say I'll handle something, it's already as good as done.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "If something more interesting comes up, I'll quietly let a smaller commitment slide.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I show up on time and prepared, even for routine meetings no one would notice me skipping.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "People can count on me to be consistent week after week, not just when I'm motivated.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I'd rather take an extra hour to get the details right than ship something that's just 'good enough'.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I double-check my work for mistakes before I hand it off.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "Once a task stops being interesting, my effort on it visibly drops.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I follow a task all the way through the boring final 10% instead of leaving loose ends.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I take pride in the quality of even the small, unglamorous parts of my job.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I tell the truth about my mistakes even when hiding them would be easier and safer.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I follow the rules that matter even when no one would ever find out if I didn't.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "Bending the rules a little is fine as long as the result works out.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "If I found a serious error in my own finished work, I'd flag it rather than hope no one notices.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I keep my word to people even when it ends up costing me something to do so.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "When a project I'm on goes wrong, I look first at what I could have done differently.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "When things go badly, it's usually because of factors outside my control.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I own my mistakes openly instead of explaining why they weren't really my fault.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "If I drop the ball, I tell the people affected directly rather than waiting for them to notice.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] }, { "question": "I hold myself to the same standards I'd expect of anyone else on the team.", "options": [ { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly disagree", "desc": "Not at all how I work" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Disagree", "desc": "Mostly not me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Neutral", "desc": "Depends on the day" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Agree", "desc": "Mostly me" }, { "icon": "👤", "label": "Strongly agree", "desc": "Exactly me" } ] } ], "dimensions": { "DEP": { "name": "Dependability", "desc": "Whether people can count on you to show up, keep commitments, and stay consistent over time.", "high": "You're the person a team builds its plans around. When you commit, it's done - on time, every time, motivated or not.", "mid": "You're reliable on the things that matter, though the smaller commitments can occasionally slip when life gets busy.", "low": "Consistency is the area with the most room to grow. Protecting even small commitments would noticeably raise how much others can lean on you." }, "DIL": { "name": "Diligence", "desc": "Thoroughness, attention to detail, and the willingness to do the unglamorous final stretch of the work.", "high": "You finish what you start and you finish it well - the boring final 10%, the double-check, the small parts no one else sweats.", "mid": "You care about quality and usually see things through, with the occasional shortcut when a task stops holding your interest.", "low": "Follow-through and detail are the biggest growth area. Building a habit of the final check would lift the quality others see." }, "INT": { "name": "Integrity", "desc": "Honesty and respect for shared standards - especially when no one is watching and bending them would be easy.", "high": "You hold the line on honesty and the rules that matter even when cutting a corner would be easier and unseen.", "mid": "You're broadly principled, though you'll weigh outcomes against the rules in some grey-area situations.", "low": "Where the result and the rules pull apart, you lean pragmatic. Being explicit about which lines you won't cross would strengthen trust." }, "ACC": { "name": "Accountability", "desc": "Ownership of outcomes - looking first at your own part rather than shifting blame outward.", "high": "When something goes wrong, your first move is to ask what you could have done differently - and to say so openly.", "mid": "You take ownership of clear mistakes, while sometimes pointing to outside factors when things go sideways.", "low": "External factors get the first look when things go wrong. Owning your part out loud would compound trust quickly." } }, "archetypes": { "DEP": { "name": "The Anchor", "headline": "Steady, consistent, the one a team is built around.", "desc": "Your defining strength is dependability. You're the fixed point others set their plans by - present, prepared, and consistent whether or not anyone is watching. Teams trust you with the things that absolutely cannot slip.", "emblem": "anchor" }, "DIL": { "name": "The Craftsman", "headline": "Thorough, exacting, finishes what others abandon.", "desc": "Your defining strength is diligence. You do the unglamorous final stretch and the quiet double-check that others skip, and you take real pride in quality. The details that decide whether work is trusted are the details you own.", "emblem": "anvil and hammer" }, "INT": { "name": "The Straight Arrow", "headline": "Honest, principled, holds the line unwatched.", "desc": "Your defining strength is integrity. You tell the truth about your own mistakes and respect the standards that matter even when bending them would be invisible and easy. People know where they stand with you.", "emblem": "compass" }, "ACC": { "name": "The Steward", "headline": "Owns outcomes, never shifts the blame.", "desc": "Your defining strength is accountability. When something goes wrong your first instinct is to ask what you could have done differently - and to say it out loud. You carry responsibility instead of passing it along.", "emblem": "shield" } }, "bands": { "exceptional": { "name": "Exceptional reliability", "desc": "Across all four facets your answers point to an unusually strong, consistent work-reliability profile. Use this alongside an interview and a work sample - never as the sole reason to hire or reject." }, "high": { "name": "High reliability", "desc": "Your answers point to a strong, well-rounded work-reliability profile with clear strengths. Use this as one screening input alongside an interview - never as a sole-decision gate." }, "steady": { "name": "Steady reliability", "desc": "Your answers point to a solid, dependable profile with one or two facets that have room to grow. Best read as a conversation starter for an interview, not a verdict." }, "emerging": { "name": "Emerging reliability", "desc": "Your answers suggest work-reliability is still developing, with clear areas to build. A single questionnaire can't capture context - treat this as a prompt for discussion, never an automatic screen-out." } }, "retakePrompt": { "lastResult": "Last time your standout facet was {previousResult}.", "evolvedHint": "Work habits shift with role, season, and workload - your profile today may differ in a year.", "retakeButton": "Take it again" } } }, "testNames": { "work-ethics": "Work Ethics & Reliability" } }