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Employers use this assessment to ensure that you are not a risk to their company.
The Hogan Development Survey assesses the dark-side personality with the following eleven scales:
- Excitable: Enthusiasm for working, as well as whether you are easily frustrated, moody, irritable, or inclined to give up on people/projects.
- Skeptical: Alertness for signs of deceptive behavior in others and you ability to act when they are detected.
- Cautious: Risk aversion, fear of failure, and avoidance of criticism.
- Reserved: toughness, aloofness, standoffishness, and lack of concern for the feelings of others.
- Leisurely: Stubbornness, uncooperativeness, self-serving
- Bold: Seemingly fearless, confident, and self-assured, always expecting to succeed, unable to admit mistakes or learn from experience.
- Mischievous: Seemingly bright, attractive, adventurous, risk-seeking, and limit-testing.
- Colorful: Seemingly gregarious, fun, entertaining, and enjoying being in the spotlight.
- Imaginative: Seemingly innovative, creative, possibly eccentric, and sometimes self-absorbed behavior.
- Diligent: Hardworking, detail-oriented, having high standards of performance for self/others.
- Dutiful: Coming across as a loyal and dependable employee.
- The HDS identifies behavioural tendencies that emerge when a person is stressed, bored, or fatigued.
- Research shows that people with lower HDS scores have fewer problems at work. High-risk and moderate-risk scores indicate areas of concern, but low scores indicate underused strengths that also deserve attention.
- The average person has three or four high-risk HDS scores.
Scale Definitions
| HDS Scale Name | Low Scores May Seem | High Scores May Seem |
|---|---|---|
| Excitable | to lack passionto lack a sense of urgency | easily annoyed emotionally volatile |
| Excitable | to lack passionto lack a sense of urgency | easily annoyed emotionally volatile |
| Skeptical | naive gullible | mistrustful cynical |
| Cautious | overly confident to make risky decisions | too conservative risk averse |
| Reserved | to avoid conflict too sensitive | aloof and remoteindifferent to others’ feelings |
| Leisurely | unengaged self-absorbed | uncooperative stubborn |
| Bold | unduly modest self-doubting | arrogantentitled and self-promoting |
| Mischievous | over controlled inflexible | charming and fun careless about commitments |
| Colourful | repressed apathetic | dramatic noisy |
| Imaginative | too tactical to lack vision | impractical eccentric |
| Diligent | careless about details easily distracted | perfectionisticmicromanaging |
| Dutiful | possibly insubordinate | respectful and deferential too independent |
Percentile Scores
The percentile scores indicate the proportion of the population who will score at or below You. For example, a score of 75 on a given scale indicates that Your score is higher than approximately 75% of the population.
- Scores of 0 to 39 are considered no risk
- Scores of 40 to 69 are considered low risk
- Scores of 70 to 89 are considered moderate risk
- Scores of 90 to 150 are considered as high-risk.
- Scores of 150 and above are considered extremely high risk.
NOTE: Higher the risk, lower the chances of employment. Lower the risk, higher the chances of selection.