THIS ASSESSMENT IS DESIGNED TO BE ACTIONABLE, NOT JUST INFORMATIONAL

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PEAR is built on an artificial intelligence (A.I.) backbone that depends on clean, complete and unbiased data.

How you answer each statement pair provides a small signal about your constraints or choices related to different traits. 

Combining all your answers helps amplify those signals and improve the accuracy of your results (we call this ‘data fidelity’). 

Including fewer statements would provide fewer signals leading to less accuracy and less detail. It would allow fewer traits to be monitored.
 
The assessment has three sections that each focus on a different dimension to your personality:

  • Emotional Intelligence: These statements relate to how you instinctively sense & perceive information that is often intangible or subjective...and how you use that information to approach communication, interactions & relationships.

  • Intellectual Style: These statements relate to how you logically and rationally approach problems, gather & process tangible or objective information, and use that to determine the best decision or solution.

  • Behavioral Inclination: These statements relate to how you act on decisions or engage in situations...and how your thoughts and feelings manifest in a manner that can be observed or experienced by others.

SORTING THROUGH THE MANY TO FIND THE FEW

Individuals experience the greatest success and satisfaction when they can utilize personality traits across all three of these dimensions to fulfill the requirements of a role. 

This assessment is designed to identify and avoid conflicts created when traits are unappreciated, they contradict the requirements of the role, or they produce dysfunctional friction with coworkers. 

To accomplish this, the system monitors over 400 individual traits as it looks for the few that are most prominent for your personality…and therefore most likely to define how you make decisions, interact with others and approach tasks.

On average, about 10% of those 400 traits (a few dozen) will matter most to defining your personality, while a completely different list of traits may define someone else. 

THREE AREAS OF APPLICATION:

The rich insight derived from your trait inventory will define how you experience your career in three ways:

  1. A PERSONALITY IS THE PRODUCT OF TRAITS | Leveraging your strengths & managing your weaknesses: Recognizing your most prominent traits (typically considered "strengths") will help you find a role or pursue tasks where those traits will be most appreciated and useful. Awareness of traits your personality "rejects" (sometimes considered "weaknesses") can identify areas you may want to avoid or need to develop.

  2. A JOB IS THE PRODUCT OF TASKS | Guiding hiring decisions and empowering performance: Job interviews tend to focus on tasks, while overlooking the importance of the traits that will determine how those tasks get done. The limitations of interview time also mean they are rarely able to explore more than a dozen traits. Reports produced from this assessment provide both initial insight into Person | Position fit, and detailed question guides to help interviewers investigate where there might be a mis-match between the requirements of the role and the preferences of the person.

  3. A RELATIONSHIP IS THE PRODUCT OF INTERACTIONS | Being aware of expectations…and knowing what to do when they are missed: Knowing when you have shared or opposing traits compared to another individual or group can predict potential great synergies and potential conflicts before interactions become dysfunctional. When issues arise, they also make it easier to diagnose the cause...and find a faster resolution.