Work Personality Index®
Understand How People Work
Use Personality Data Insights to Improve Hiring, Development, and Team Effectiveness.
The Work Personality Index provides clear, workplace-focused insight into how individuals think, behave, and interact at work. Apply that insight to support confident hiring decisions, meaningful development, career guidance, and stronger team dynamics.
Applying WPI Insights Across the Employee Journey
People decisions and development can be complex. The Work Personality Index provides a single, practical framework that professionals use to bring clarity, consistency, and shared language throughout the employee journey.
The Challenge
You’re making hiring decisions based on interviews and resumes, and it’s been hit or miss, resulting in costly mis-hires and high turnover.
How WPI Insights Help
Get objective personality data that shows how candidates actually work, not just how they interview. Evidence-based candidate profiles with Job Match benchmarks reduce selection errors and time to hire.
The Challenge
You’ve used personality assessments before, but the results felt abstract and hard to apply to the workplace.
How WPI Insights Help
Every report is written in straight forward, easy to understand, work focused language that directly translates to behaviors on the job.
The Challenge
Different tools for hiring, development, and teams create fragmented data and inconsistent language.
How WPI Insights Help
One assessment framework that supports the entire employee journey with consistent, comparable insights.
One Assessment, Multiple Applications
The WPI provides a single, consistent source of insight that can be applied across different workforce challenges, and across the entire employee journey.
Hire Confidently
Go beyond the resume and the interview performance. See how candidates are likely to approach work, handle pressure, and fit with your team.
Encourage Employee Growth
Support self-awareness and development by helping individuals understand how their personality influences their work, relationships, and professional growth.
Build Stronger Leaders & Teams
Identify leadership strengths, support succession planning, and improve how teams collaborate together.
Applying WPI Insights
Used by human resources, learning and development professionals and consultants, the WPI supports the full employee journey with practical insights that can be applied immediately.
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Assess 21 Unique Aspects of Work Personality
Energy and Drive
Social Confidence • Multi-Tasking • Leadership • Persuasion • Ambition • Energy
Work Style
Persistence • Rule-Following • Planning • Attention to Detail • Dependability
Working With Others
Outgoing • Teamwork • Concern for Others • Democratic
Dealing With Pressure
Self-Control • Stress Tolerance
Problem Solving Style
Innovation • Analytical Thinking
Managing Change
Initiative • Flexibility
Insights for the Entire Employee Journey
The WPI offers a range of reports designed for different applications, all drawing from the same core assessment data. Select a stage below to explore available reports.
Select Report
Get a clear picture of how someone approaches their work before you make a hiring decision. See their work style, how they collaborate, solve problems, and handle pressure.
Job Match Report
Compare candidates against role-specific benchmarks with a clear fit score. Perfect for high-volume hiring where you need consistency and speed without sacrificing quality.
Team Dynamics Dashboard
Group Insight for Leaders and Teams
Team Dynamics is a dashboard that brings individual WPI results together into a shared, team-level view. It helps managers and team leaders understand how different work styles interact across the group, revealing patterns that influence communication, collaboration, decision-making, and change. This is included with all of our WPI reports.
By visualizing collective strengths, gaps, and differences, Team Dynamics supports clearer conversations about how the team works together and provides a shared, work-focused language leaders can use to guide alignment and integration.
How Organizations Use the WPI
Alberta Government: Leading Through Change
See how the WPI helped support leadership development during a period of significant organizational change.
Revera: Lead to Succeed
See how the WPI helped build leadership capability across extended care facilities in the healthcare sector.
Major Retail Chain: Improving Recruitment
See how the WPI improved hiring outcomes by bringing objectivity and consistency to the selection process.
Common Questions About the Work Personality Index
Do I need certification to use the WPI?
The WPI is classified as a Level A instrument, which means it is accessible without advanced psychology credentials.
How long does it take participants to complete?
Most people complete the WPI in about 10 minutes. It is designed to be efficient while still delivering a comprehensive view across 21 workplace traits.
Can candidates complete the WPI remotely?
Yes. The WPI is administered online through Psychometrics.com, which supports distributed teams and remote hiring workflows.
How quickly will we receive results?
Results are available immediately through the online platform.
What makes the WPI different from personality tests?
The WPI focuses on traits directly related to workplace behaviour and uses work-focused language, making it easier to interpret and apply for real decisions.
What support is available if we need help?
Psychometrics provides resources, manuals, and expert guidance to help teams choose report types, interpret results, and apply insights responsibly.
Additional WPI Resources
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