Jobsite Personal Profiles

Would you like to be happier in your next job?

The process of finding a job to suit you can be very demanding and challenging. It’s more than just checking to see if you have the right skills and working out how long it will take to get to work.

Our personal profile will help you to better understand yourself and assist you in finding the work environment that suits you best.

What is the Jobsite Personal Profile?

The profile was developed as the result of extensive market and academic research. We identified 5 distinct types of jobseeker each with different priorities, desires and motivations. Each type prefers a different work environment.

By completing the questionnaire you will receive a personal profile that will help you find your next, great job.

What's more, it will take just 8 minutes of your time.

Where did this come from?

You’re probably wondering where this all came from. Well, it started from within the company: 2005 saw us celebrate our 10th birthday, and like all great milestone ages in your life, it gets you thinking. We realised how much we’ve changed as a company and how much we have changed as individuals over the last 10 years. We realised that different people want different things from their work life, will need different management and will be attracted by completely different things. We also realised if the individual doesn’t match the company culture – it’s a lose-lose situation for both parties.

And as we are all about job-seeking and introducing jobseekers to recruiters we thought we might be able to use something like this on our site.

So we started researching it - first through focus group discussions with jobhunters (and free pizza), then with a survey of 5,000 individuals.

And then by chance we met Dr Paul Morgan and found out that we just had landed a breakthrough - our segmentation was backed by 50 years of academic research and is used in many sports teams and even in overcoming apartheid in South Africa.

The new Jobsite framework goes beneath the surface descriptions of the different work types and identifies the deeper world of worker’s views. It recognises that people’s values and motivational drivers are fluid and will change according to life circumstances.

It also recognises that you can’t separate work and life, so instead of the post-modernist approach it is a holistic one.

It obviously changed everything for us: our own recruitment, how we train and manage our staff, our website and most importantly our understanding of people like you.
All this from a little chat about birthday cakes…

I’ve taken questionnaires before - why is this any different?

The Jobsite profile recognises that at different stages of your life and in different circumstances your preferences will change. The aim of the Jobsite personal profile is to help you understand your self at any particular time. So, rather than pigeonhole you for the rest of your working life, the Jobsite Personal Profile takes a snapshot of your current thinking and helps you look ahead.

Oh and by the way, we won’t tell you you’re a ‘dog’ or a ‘rabbit’ or a PZ or YB. Instead we’ll provoke you to find out a little more about yourself.

This will include showing you how other people see you and how you see them. And shining the light on why people behave in certain ways at certain times. And enable you to get the best from the situation - whether it’s at work, during an interview…or even in your personal life.

What will you get?

When you complete the profile you’ll receive not one, not two, not three, but four reports:

• Report 1: Your current work - life values
• Report 2: How you will see other types of people
• Report 3: How other types of people will see you
• Report 4: Interview questions for finding the right employer
  

So take a look at our Personal Profiles now and find out more about who you are and what employer suits your style of working. Click here to take the test