PI Behavioral Assessment: Predict Job Performance with Science-Backed Personality Testing
- Science-backed personality assessment measuring four key behavioral drives: Dominance, Extraversion, Patience, and Formality
- Free-choice, untimed format completed in just 6 minutes with over 60 years of validation research
- Predictive Index® methodology identifying natural behavioral tendencies and workplace adaptation patterns
- Comprehensive behavioral profiles revealing communication style, decision-making approach, and motivational factors
- Job matching technology comparing candidate profiles against role-specific behavioral requirements
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Improve Hiring Accuracy by 88%
- Predict job fit with 95% accuracy using validated behavioral science methodology
- Reduce turnover by 53% through better person-job and person-culture matching
- Identify high performers by matching behavioral profiles to role requirements
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Reduce Time-to-Hire by 30 Days
- Complete behavioral screening in just 6 minutes per candidate
- Eliminate lengthy personality questionnaires and complex evaluation processes
- Fast-track candidates whose behavioral profiles align with role needs
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Make Data-Driven Hiring Decisions
- Access objective behavioral data eliminating gut-feel hiring decisions
- Compare candidates using standardized behavioral framework and job targets
- Predict management needs, team dynamics, and onboarding requirements upfront
Dominance (Control and Independence)
Evaluates how strongly a candidate seeks to influence outcomes, take ownership, and operate independently. This drive helps predict assertiveness, decision-making style, competitiveness, and comfort taking charge in ambiguous situations.
Extraversion (Social Interaction and Collaboration)
Assesses a candidate’s tendency to connect with others, communicate openly, and build relationships. This supports understanding of how candidates engage with teams, persuade others, and contribute in people-facing roles.
Patience (Consistency and Stability)
Measures the preference for steady work environments, deliberate pacing, and long-term focus. This competency highlights a candidate’s ability to remain calm, maintain consistent output, and work effectively in roles requiring reliability and predictability.
Formality (Structure and Precision)
Evaluates attention to detail, compliance with rules, and comfort with structured processes. This helps predict accuracy, quality focus, and alignment with roles that require strong procedural discipline.
Response Pattern and Behavioral Consistency
Analyzes how consistently candidates portray their behavioral tendencies. This competency helps validate results and highlights levels of self-awareness and reliability in behavioral expression.
Decision-Making Approach
Assesses how candidates evaluate information and make choices, whether through analytical, intuitive, collaborative, or directive thinking. This competency directly impacts leadership style and day-to-day work performance.
Hiring Managers and Talent Acquisition Teams
Ideal for teams that need to predict job fit early in the hiring funnel. The assessment provides clear behavioral insights that help identify candidates who naturally align with role expectations and organizational culture.
Leadership and Management Roles
Useful for evaluating how candidates lead, communicate, and make decisions. The assessment helps uncover leadership tendencies, motivational drivers, and areas where managerial support may be needed.
Sales, Customer-Facing, and High-Interaction Roles
Designed for positions where communication style, persuasion, resilience, and energy levels significantly influence performance. Behavioral insights help match candidates with customer-centric roles that fit their natural strengths.
Role-Based Behavioral Targeting
Create tailored behavioral profiles for each role by defining the ideal combination of Dominance, Extraversion, Patience, and Formality. This ensures that candidates are evaluated against the behavioral traits that truly matter for job success.
Industry and Function-Level Benchmarks
Access benchmarks from similar roles across industries to calibrate expectations. Compare candidate behavior with proven top performers in your sector to make more confident and consistent hiring decisions.
Team Composition and Fit Analysis
Customize assessments to evaluate how a candidate complements your existing team. Identify behavioral gaps, overlaps, and strengths to build balanced and high-performing teams.
PI Cognitive Assessment
Measure learning agility, problem-solving speed, and abstract reasoning. When paired with behavioral data, it delivers one of the strongest predictors of job performance and future potential.
Situational Judgment Test
Understand how candidates apply their behavioral tendencies in realistic work scenarios. This pairing helps validate judgment, decision-making style, and response patterns under pressure.
Emotional Intelligence Test
Evaluate self-awareness, empathy, relationship management, and social adaptability. This complements behavioral insights for leadership, customer-facing roles, and team-driven environments.
Skills and Technical Assessments
Combine behavioral insights with job-specific skill evaluations to validate both competency and behavioral fit. This ensures balanced hiring decisions for technical and non-technical roles.
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How long does the PI Behavioral Assessment take to complete?
The PI Behavioral Assessment is a six-minute, free-choice, untimed test. Its short duration captures instinctive responses more accurately and reduces candidate fatigue while maintaining high predictive validity.
How accurate is the PI Behavioral Assessment in predicting job performance?
The assessment delivers up to 95 percent predictive accuracy when matched with role-specific behavioral targets. Its methodology is backed by more than 60 years of research and over 30 million completions, making it one of the most reliable behavioral prediction tools available.
Can candidates fake or alter their responses?
The free-choice adjective format makes intentional manipulation extremely difficult. The assessment includes response pattern checks, consistency indicators, and Self vs. Self-Concept analysis to detect attempts to present an unrealistic idealized profile.
How does this integrate with our existing hiring workflow and ATS?
HackerEarth integrates seamlessly with 50 plus ATS and HR platforms including Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, SAP SuccessFactors, BambooHR, and iCIMS. Behavioral reports sync automatically, and assessments can be embedded directly into your hiring workflow.
Is this assessment suitable only for hiring or also for internal teams?
The PI Behavioral Assessment is valuable across the entire employee lifecycle. It supports hiring, onboarding, manager training, team alignment, leadership development, and conflict resolution through behavioral insights.
Is the PI Behavioral Assessment legally compliant for hiring decisions?
Yes. The assessment follows EEOC guidelines, demonstrates no adverse impact across protected groups, and measures job-relevant behavioral factors. It is validated for workplace use and legally defensible when used as part of a structured selection process.
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