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Personality Profile - Hire & Onboard

"The report has been very insightful. If the candidate gets the job it will help us understand how to work best with them. We’ll definitely use the tests again." 
Pamela Phillips, Founder and MD - de Jong Phillips, UK



"Our team used Accountest as an assessment tool for all our existing Senior Account Managers. Not only were we able to evaluate their current skillset and determine their “grinder”, “minder” or "finder" mindset or personality, we used the evaluation as a launching point to start coaching them to become the best accountant possible in their particular setting and style. Great service and fantastic results that we can use now and in the future during recruitment of new team members!"
Jane Lyall, Chief of Staff - Streamline Accounting

 

 

Personality Profile - Hire & Onboard

£135.00

The APPQ is the first personality assessment designed specifically for accounting and bookkeeping roles.

APPQ was created by blending the world’s most reliable and valid Big-5/OCEAN measures of personality with the behaviours and traits identified by the profession as essential to success in navigating the changing world of accounting businesses.

APPQ Hire & Onboard delivers industry-specific reporting, including Interview Questions to address potential concerns and training/coaching priorities to get new hires up to speed quickly.

 

The APPQ focuses on:

  • Accounting Ethics
  • Client & Colleague Relationship Management
  • Handling Change & Innovation
  • Problem Solving & Decision Making
  • Stress Tolerance

 

The APPQ is suitable for all staff groups in accounting firms, including accountants and bookkeepers, managers, graduates and admin/support staff.

 

Key Features & Benefits

  • Completed Online, typically in 20 minutes
  • Instant Report Generation, notified in your inbox
  • Interpretation Support while you get comfortable using APPQ
  • Impression Management and Proctoring to manage risks of cheating
  • Measures Core Strengths and Challenges
  • Includes Profile-Specific Interview Questions and Suggested Options for Training and Development

Resources

Sample Report - APPQ Hire & Onboard

Download the APPQ User Manual, including Reliability & Validity Data

Watch the Report Interpretation Video for the APPQ

Compare APPQ with other Personality Tests

  

Finder/Minder/Grinder Roles

If you use the Finder/Minder/Grinder model for staff who manage the business, distribute the work, and deliver the output, this resource allows you to compare your candidate with the Ideal Profile for each role. 

Learn more at the Finder / Minder / Grinder page.

 

Other APPQ Reports

Not hiring, but wanting to use personality profiling to increase staff retention, assist succession planning or team development?

Go to these pages for:

APPQ Train & Develop – for retaining staff by building meaningful careers

APPQ Pathway to Partnership – for aspiring leaders and succession planning

APPQ Teams – to identify and fix blind-spots holding your business back

 

Test with Confidence

100% Satisfaction: If you’re not totally satisfied with your first test purchase or the testing process, we’ll refund your purchase cost (conditions apply).

Proctoring:  All tests are proctored so you can be confident in the integrity of your candidate’s testing environment, even when testing remotely. AI utilizes webcam data to provide a Proctoring Report, delivered alongside test results.

For subscriptions and bulk pricing options see our Subscriptions and Bulk Discounts page.

 

Testing Process

 

What our clients are saying

Here's what some of Accountests clients tell us

"The report validated his CV and I was pleased that it gave reassurance. His weak points were in Drs & Crs questions which I would expect from someone who has not had a huge exposure to Ltd Company accounts. The BA part was surprisingly good for someone with his background. I recommended Accountests.com to the agency he came through."

Gary Richards, Owner

Tax Assist, Larkfield & Paddock Wood, UK

"Accountests has completely changed our interview process. No longer do we waste time with the ‘talkers’ who have the gift of being amazing at interviews but who turn out to be not so great at their job!  I can honestly say that we will never give up using Accountests."

David Jones, FCCA

Lewis Brownlee: Chartered Accountants & Tax Advisers, London & SE England, UK

"A really useful resource we use when screening candidates. The tests have questions of varying levels of complexity and the candidate report fully breaks down which answers were answered correctly and incorrectly. This really helps us understand a candidates strengths and weaknesses and identify training requirements."

Charlotte Wass, Director

Beany.com, England, UK

"The tests were extremely valuable in providing an independent gauge of the skill level of the candidates, which played a key part in making a decision on who was right for the role.”

Ryan Rambaccussing, Group Financial Controller

FE fundinfo, London, UK

"Overall Accountests has highlighted the past weakness in our interview process very well and whilst I already rated your product very highly beforehand, the disconnect that can occur between how candidates interview and their test score was a real eye opener for me personally. Straight away this has saved us the time of second interview and staff cost through recruiting weaker candidates.'

Dean Blunden, Director

UHY Ross Brooke Chartered Accountants, Newbury, UK

"Really good communication throughout, and provided us with a great test when recruiting for a bookkeeping role."

Amelia Adkins, Assistant Manager

KPMG, Southampton, UK

"I was very impressed with candidate #1's results. Candidate #2 was front runner, however seeing the results candidate #1 has overtaken! Although reading through I know that candidate #2 is also in the average section, being 58th percentile, so not to dismiss her either! I feel we have a hard decision to make. The test has helped though, a lot, and they're very interesting to see the areas in which they scored well/didn't do so well. "

Cheryl Sharp FCCA, CEO

Pink Pig Financials, UK

"We have found that Accountests gives us the opportunity to understand our candidates accounting ability, which no other product has done until now. It also gives us the opportunity to base further questions for the candidate around what we can see their ability is and enable us to make an informed decision."

David Jones, FCCA

Lewis Brownlee: Chartered Accountants & Tax Advisers, London & SE England, UK

"I thought the test was exceptionally good!"

Sarah Palmer, Chief Operations Officer

IAB, London, UK

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