Hogan Assessments

Understand workplace personality tendencies to support hiring decisions and develop stronger leaders.

Identify personality-related performance risks early to help protect workplace relationships and support effective performance.

Reveal what motivates people to help inform role fit, job satisfaction, hiring, and development decisions.

Understand how people reason through business problems to inform selection, decisions, and development.

Understand decision patterns, feedback responses, and learning from mistakes to support workplace development.

Screen entry-level candidates efficiently, compare job-related capabilities, and guide structured interviews.

Identify emerging leaders and provide development insights to strengthen leadership readiness and succession planning.

Help leaders understand how others perceive their performance, compare results with benchmarks, and prioritize development.

Identify safety-conscious talent, target individual development, and uncover safety-related organizational culture gaps.

Understand emotional strengths and development needs to guide employee and leader development.

Assess leadership potential, performance risks, and motivators to inform selection, succession, and development decisions.

Turn assessment insights into a structured personal development plan for professional growth.

Provide a concise view of a candidate’s strengths, challenges, interpersonal performance, and values.

Help high performers identify their prominent leadership style through personality insight.

Help middle managers understand their strengths and weaknesses while bridging management and staff and delivering results.

Use insight into unconscious values to navigate workplace interactions and career direction.

Help early-career individuals understand work-related strengths and behaviors and apply career-management tips.

Help organizations select revenue-generating sales professionals across a broad range of roles and industries.

Help teams understand their dynamics, pursue shared goals, and turn personality insights into development plans.

Help executives optimize organizational performance through assessment, actionable development, and one-on-one coaching.

Identify and select qualified candidates with assessment-based hiring solutions that support fairer and more efficient decisions.

Build self-awareness and develop employees and leaders to improve performance and support organizational success.

Help leaders build self-awareness, set measurable development goals, and improve their impact on teams and organizations.

Learn to use Hogan assessments, interpret results, and deliver feedback through foundational, advanced, and online training.

Get assessment research and profiles tailored to roles, competencies, and talent needs.

Access assessments, archival data, and assessment information to support academic research projects.

Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)

The Hogan Personality Inventory measures bright-side personality: the everyday qualities that describe how people relate to others when they are at their best. Based on the five-factor model and developed in the context of socioanalytic theory, it captures behavioral tendencies relevant to getting along with others and getting ahead. Its seven primary scales and 42 subscales provide insight into how people work, lead, and may perform in an organization. The assessment is grounded in more than 40 years of validated research and can support applications from entry-level hiring to leadership development.

• Reveal Everyday Workplace Tendencies
  Understand behavioral tendencies relevant to how people relate to others and approach work and leadership.
• Explore Seven Scales And 42 Subscales
  Examine personality through seven primary scales and 42 subscales.
• Support Hiring And Leader Development
  Apply bright-side personality insight across talent decisions, from entry-level selection to leadership development.
• Base Decisions On Validated Research
  Draw on decades of validated research and more than 1,000 research studies.
• Use Assessment Data With No Adverse Impact
  Use assessment data described as unbiased and as having no adverse impact.
• Assess Participants In 40+ Languages
  Offer the assessment in more than 40 languages.
• Get Results After A Brief Assessment
  Participants can complete the assessment in 15 to 20 minutes and receive instant scoring and reporting.

Hogan Development Survey (HDS)

The Hogan Development Survey assesses dark-side personality qualities that can emerge under increased strain. These traits may disrupt relationships, damage reputations, and interfere with effective performance. Its 11 personality scales and 33 subscales help organizations identify potential derailers, recognize performance risks before they become problems, and support leaders in managing shortcomings and maximizing strengths. It is grounded in more than 20 years of validated research, has been validated in more than 400 research studies, and provides instantaneous scoring and reporting.

• Reveal Potential Derailers
  Recognize dark-side qualities that may become problematic under pressure and interfere with workplace performance.
• Identify And Mitigate Performance Risks
  Identify potentially problematic behaviors early to address risks before they disrupt relationships or performance.
• Explore 11 Scales And 33 Subscales
  Use a structured set of scales and subscales to examine dark-side personality qualities.
• Use Research-Validated Assessment Data
  Draw on more than 20 years of validated research and more than 400 research studies.
• Support Unbiased Assessment Decisions
  The assessment is presented as having no adverse impact and as providing unbiased data.
• Assess Participants In 40+ Languages
  Participants can complete the assessment in one of more than 40 available languages.
• Receive Instant Scoring And Reports
  Access assessment results promptly through instantaneous scoring and reporting.
• Complete The Assessment In 15–20 Minutes
  Participants have a stated average completion time of 15 to 20 minutes.

Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI)

The MVPI assesses the core goals, values, drivers, and interests that shape what people desire and strive to attain. It helps organizations understand what motivates candidates to succeed and the positions, jobs, and environments in which they may be most productive. Its 10 primary scales, each divided into five subscales, provide additional interpretive detail. The assessment is available in more than 40 languages, takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete, and provides instantaneous scoring and reporting. It can be used from entry-level hiring to leadership development.

• Understand Workplace Motivators
  See the underlying goals, values, drivers, and interests that shape what people want and pursue at work.
• Anticipate Success And Job Satisfaction
  Use insights into employees’ work preferences and values to help anticipate success and job satisfaction.
• Identify Productive Roles And Environments
  Understand which kinds of positions, jobs, and work environments may best support a candidate’s productivity.
• Assess Organizational Values Alignment
  Compare individual values with company values to inform understanding of cultural alignment and potential engagement.
• Explore Values In Greater Detail
  Use the 10 primary scales and their five subscales to gain additional interpretive detail about values and preferences.
• Support Fairer Assessment Decisions
  Use data described as having no adverse impact to support unbiased talent decisions.
• Apply Insights Across Talent Decisions
  Use the assessment across talent applications, including entry-level hiring and leadership development.
• Assess Participants In Their Preferred Language
  Offer the assessment in more than 40 languages.
• Get Results Without Delay
  Receive scoring and reporting output instantaneously.
• Complete The Assessment In 15 To 20 Minutes
  Provide participants with a defined 15- to 20-minute completion estimate.

Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory (HBRI)

The Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory is a cognitive assessment that measures business reasoning style and the ability to evaluate data, make decisions, solve problems, and avoid repeating past mistakes. It assesses qualitative reasoning using data visualization, logic, and verbal information, and quantitative reasoning using mathematical and spatial information. Results help organizations understand how candidates and employees approach problems, inform selection decisions, and identify development areas. The assessment is designed for selection and leadership development and takes an average of 25 to 30 minutes to complete.

Category: Talent Assessment Software

• Assess Business Reasoning
  Provides insight into how candidates and employees use business information to make decisions and solve problems.
• Support Selection And Development
  Apply business reasoning insights to hiring decisions and employee and leadership development.
• Evaluate Qualitative Reasoning
  Shows how participants work with visualized data, logic, and verbal information.
• Evaluate Quantitative Reasoning
  Shows how participants use mathematical and spatial information to reason through problems.
• Complete In 25 To 30 Minutes
  Provides an assessment with an average completion time of 25 to 30 minutes.

Hogan Judgment Test

The Hogan Judgment Test is a cognitive assessment that examines how people make decisions, including biases that may affect their judgment and how they react to feedback about decisions. It reveals information-processing and decision-making styles, as well as openness to learning from past mistakes. Organizations can use these insights to support decision-making self-awareness and workplace development.

Category: Talent Assessment Software

• Understand Decision-Making Patterns
  See how participants approach information and make decisions.
• Learn From Feedback And Mistakes
  Understand how participants respond to feedback and whether they use past decisions to improve future decision-making.
• Identify Decision-Making Biases
  Gain insight into biases that may affect judgment and decision-making.

General Employability

General Employability is a ready-to-go screening solution for assessing candidates’ suitability for entry-level roles. Its short, intuitive test and single-page report present candidates’ people skills, learning skills, work ethic, and overall score. Hiring teams can use results to identify suitable candidates, sort large applicant pools, and conduct structured interviews with recommended behavioral questions. The assessment draws on personality research and workplace performance data to support evidence-based selection.

Category: Talent Assessment Software

• Screen Entry-Level Candidates
  Gauge candidates’ suitability for entry-level roles using a solution designed to assess basic job-related capabilities.
• Compare Key Candidate Skills
  Review key employability measures in a visual format to support candidate selection.
• Sort Applicants And Improve Role Fit
  Use suitability information to organize applicant pools and focus on candidates whose results indicate a fit.
• Review Results At A Glance
  Access employability information in a concise, easy-to-review format.
• Support Evidence-Based Decisions
  Ground talent decisions in research and workplace performance data.
• Guide Structured Interviews
  Use recommended behavioral questions to explore candidates’ job-related behavior.

High Potential

High Potential is an assessment and report that helps organizations identify talent for future leadership roles, including people who might otherwise be overlooked. Intended for individual contributors and midlevel managers on succession tracks, it provides an overview of leadership competencies and potential for success, ranked competency scores, and recommended development focus areas. The report uses personality research and workplace performance data to support talent decisions and help emerging leaders build self-awareness and maximize their leadership potential.

Category: Talent Assessment Software

• Identify Emerging Leadership Talent
  Highlights people who may be suited to future leadership roles.
• Ground Talent Decisions In Evidence
  Support selection and succession decisions with personality research and workplace performance data.
• Visualize Leadership Competencies
  Provides a view of leadership competencies and potential for success.
• Prioritize Leadership Development
  Use ranked scores and recommended focus areas to direct development.

Hogan 360

Powered by Peter Berry Consultancy, Hogan 360 is a multirater feedback tool for directors, executives, managers, and high-potential employees. It compares self-evaluations with feedback from workplace raters and compares scores with managerial benchmarks by industry and job level. The tool evaluates soft and hard skills, presents competency scores and subthemes, and provides performance analysis with personalized rater comments to help leaders identify expectations and prioritize areas for improvement.

• Compare Self-Views With Others’ Feedback
  Compare self-evaluations with feedback from workplace raters to gain a clearer view of workplace reputation.
• Compare Results With Relevant Benchmarks
  Use industry- and job-level benchmarks to understand results in context.
• Prioritize Individual Development Needs
  Use detailed feedback and competency results to focus development on relevant areas.
• Align Feedback With Organizational Expectations
  Map feedback to organizational leadership expectations and business goals.

Safety

Hogan Safety is a personality-based report grounded in decades of research on work culture and worker personality. It assesses candidates or employees across six safety-related personality competencies, helping organizations identify safety-conscious candidates, understand strengths and shortcomings, and tailor onboarding or employee development. The insights can also help organizations recognize safety-related gaps in their culture and build awareness of accident risks.

Category: Talent Assessment Software

• Assess Six Safety Competencies
  Review safety-related personality competencies to support talent decisions and development planning.
• Identify Safety-Conscious Candidates
  Use safety competency results to inform hiring decisions.
• Focus Training On Individual Needs
  Use individual safety scores to focus onboarding and shape training and development plans.
• Recognize Risks And Culture Gaps
  Increase awareness of individual accident risks and surface organizational safety-culture gaps.

EQ

Hogan’s EQ report is based on the Hogan Personality Inventory and Hogan Development Survey. It assesses six emotional competencies to provide an overview of emotional intelligence, highlight strengths and weaknesses, and predict behavioral outcomes relevant to organizations. The report presents competencies visually, analyzes their relevance to leadership, teamwork, and employability, and provides personalized discussion points to guide development conversations. It is designed as a development resource for employees and leaders.

• Assess Six Emotional Competencies
  Provide an overview of emotional intelligence through assessment of six competencies.
• Identify Emotional Strengths And Weaknesses
  Recognize emotional strengths and weaknesses as a basis for development.
• Relate Competencies To Workplace Roles
  Interpret emotional competencies in workplace contexts.
• Guide Personalized Development Conversations
  Use participant-specific discussion points to guide development conversations.

Leadership Forecast Series

Hogan’s flagship leadership assessment series provides an in-depth view of leaders’ performance capabilities, challenges, and core drivers. It supports candidate selection, succession planning, and leadership development by helping organizations understand leadership potential, identify performance risks, and assess values and motivators that may shape leadership style and organizational culture. The series uses the Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory. Development materials include a five-step planning worksheet and a career development primer.

• Reveal Leadership Strengths
  Understand leadership capabilities and likely performance.
• Identify And Manage Derailers
  Make potential performance risks visible so leaders can understand and manage behaviors that may hinder success.
• Inform Leadership Talent Decisions
  Use leadership assessment insights to support selection, succession, and development.
• Assess Values And Motivators
  Explore drivers that shape leadership style and potential alignment with organizational culture.
• Combine Three Personality Assessments
  Draw on three Hogan assessments for a broad view of leadership performance, risks, and underlying drivers.

Coaching Report

The Coaching Report is a self-guided development-planning tool for individual leadership development. It integrates information from the Potential, Challenge, and Values reports into a five-step planning process. Completing the process enables a leader to create a personal development plan designed to foster professional growth.

• Follow A Structured Development Process
  Use a clear structure for working through development planning.
• Create A Plan For Professional Growth
  Complete the process with a personal development plan intended to support professional growth.
• Combine Three Sources Of Assessment Insight
  Bring three reports together as a basis for development planning.

Summary Report

The Summary Report provides an overview of a candidate’s strengths, challenges, and values. It integrates results from the Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory to give a snapshot of interpersonal performance and values in relation to future career aspirations.

• Combine Assessment Results
  Bring together results from three Hogan assessments in one report.
• Review Candidate Profile At A Glance
  Quickly review a candidate’s strengths, challenges, and interpersonal performance.
• Connect Values To Aspirations
  View values in the context of future career aspirations.

Leader Focus

Leader Focus is a career-development product that helps high performers identify their most prominent leadership style based on key personality characteristics.

• Identify Leadership Style
  Recognize a prominent leadership style through personality-based insight.

Insight Series

Insight Series provides in-depth feedback on strengths and weaknesses for middle managers. It is designed to help them bridge the gap between management and staff while delivering results and reducing turnover.

• Understand Strengths And Weaknesses
  Give middle managers detailed feedback on their strengths and weaknesses.
• Bridge Management And Staff
  Support middle managers in bridging management and staff.
• Deliver Results And Reduce Turnover
  Help middle managers deliver results and work toward reducing turnover.

Compass

Compass is a career-development product that helps participants understand how their unconscious values may influence workplace interactions and career direction.

• Reveal Unconscious Values
  Gain insight into unconscious values that may guide workplace interactions and career direction.
• Navigate Careers And Workplace Interactions
  Use insight into unconscious values to help navigate career direction and workplace interactions.

Career

Career is an early-career assessment that identifies strengths, shortcomings, and behaviors across a diverse range of job categories and circumstances. It provides early-career advice and development tips for career management.

• Get Early-Career Advice
  Receive advice intended for people at an early career stage.
• Understand Work-Related Strengths And Behaviors
  Review strengths, shortcomings, and behaviors in relation to diverse job categories and circumstances.
• Apply Career-Management Tips
  Use development tips to support career management.

Sales Basis

Sales Basis is a hiring product designed to help organizations select revenue-generating sales professionals across a broad range of sales roles and industries.

Category: Talent Assessment Software

• Hire Revenue-Generating Sales Professionals
  Help organizations select sales professionals who can generate revenue.
• Address Diverse Sales Roles
  Support hiring across a broad range of sales roles and industries.

Team Development

Hogan Team Development uses personality data from every team member in facilitated sessions to reveal shared tendencies and turn insights into a development plan. It helps teams understand how individual personalities affect performance and how they can support or hinder team success. The approach connects team development to team goals and is grounded in validated personality research.

• Understand How Personalities Shape Teamwork
  Examine how individual personalities influence group dynamics and team performance.
• Reveal Shared Team Tendencies
  Bring information about each team member’s personality into facilitated sessions.
• Turn Team Insights Into A Development Plan
  Translate personality insights into a plan connected to the team’s goals.

Hogan Leadership Experience

Hogan Leadership Experience is an executive development offering that combines science-driven personality assessments, actionable learning and development, and one-on-one coaching. It is designed to empower executives to optimize organizational performance.

• Use Science-Driven Personality Insight
  Integrate personality assessments into executive development.
• Develop Leaders Through Individual Coaching
  Pair executives with one-on-one coaching as part of leadership development.
• Turn Learning Into Action
  Provide actionable learning and development for executives.

Talent Acquisition Solutions

A suite of assessment-based hiring solutions for roles from entry level to executive. Hogan combines personality assessments with workplace performance data to help organizations screen candidates at high volumes, compare applicants, and identify people likely to perform well in specific roles. The solutions support candidate selection, leadership selection, reasoning and decision-making, and safety-focused hiring, with options ranging from preconfigured profiles to custom research and job-specific profiles. The suite includes entry-level screening and sales hiring applications such as General Employability and Sales Basis.

Category: Talent Assessment Software

• Screen And Select Candidates
  Use assessments to narrow applicant pools and identify candidates suited to roles, including in high-volume hiring.
• Predict Role Performance
  Use assessment and workplace performance data to inform hiring decisions about role performance.
• Evaluate Candidates More Fairly
  Use personality-based assessment to compare applicants and support less biased hiring decisions.
• Match Assessments To Roles
  Choose standardized profiles or develop tailored profiles using job requirements and organizational competencies.
• Compare Candidates Objectively
  Compare candidates using assessment data and scales designed to support consistent evaluation.
• Assess Candidates For Role Requirements
  Use the suite’s leadership, reasoning, and safety assessment options to inform selection.
• Ask More Targeted Questions
  Use assessment-based questions to explore candidate characteristics relevant to selection.
• Support Global Candidate Assessment
  Use translated and internationally validated assessments across countries.

Talent Development Solutions

Hogan’s talent development solutions use personality assessments and workplace performance data to help employees and leaders build strategic self-awareness and improve performance. They support leadership, high-potential, career, and team development, as well as judgment, emotional intelligence, and safety-related development. Assessment insights help people understand strengths, values, and performance risks, while feedback, coaching, and development plans help turn insights into actions aligned with individual and organizational goals. The offering includes dedicated solutions such as High Potential, EQ, Safety, Team Development, Career, and related leadership and career-development products.

Category: Talent Assessment Software

• Understand Strengths And Manage Performance Risks
  Recognize how personality and behavior affect work, identify strengths to leverage, and become aware of risks that could hinder performance.
• Prepare And Develop Future Leaders
  Help organizations identify promising talent and provide development support for future leadership responsibilities.
• Navigate Career Development
  Help participants understand strengths, shortcomings, motivations, and career direction.
• Improve Teamwork Through Personality Insights
  Give teams insight into individual contributions and shared tendencies, then help translate findings into a development plan.
• Turn Assessment Feedback Into Development Actions
  Use feedback and coaching to interpret results, set development goals, and identify actionable ways to improve performance.
• Build Insight Into Reasoning And Decisions
  Help employees and leaders understand reasoning styles and problem-solving approaches.
• Strengthen Emotional Awareness
  Provide insight into emotional strengths and weaknesses and responses to other people’s emotions.
• Identify Safety Risks And Guide Development
  Identify safety-related competencies and development gaps, inform training plans, and increase accident-risk awareness.

Hogan Coaching Network

The Hogan Coaching Network connects organizations and leaders with experienced, vetted coaches who use Hogan personality assessments, 360 feedback, and organizational context to guide leadership development. Coaches work with leaders to understand their impact, establish measurable goals, and create actionable development plans. Engagements include executive development, high-potential development, and onboarding coaching, with timelines tailored to the initiative.

• Reveal Leadership Impact
  Use assessment data to help leaders understand how behavior affects team and organizational performance.
• Set Measurable Development Goals
  Turn assessment and feedback into specific goals and actionable development plans.
• Ground Development In Context
  Combine assessment and 360 data with organizational context to make development relevant.
• Connect With Vetted Expert Coaches
  Work with coaches experienced in Hogan assessments and senior leadership who meet network requirements.

Certification Training

Hogan Assessments offers foundational certification workshops that teach professionals to administer, interpret, and apply its core personality assessments: the Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory. The required foundational workshop is available online or in person. Advanced workshops develop interpretation skills and effective assessment feedback. Private workshops are available for groups of 10 or more. On-demand learning is incorporated into this training offering through web courses for continued learning, assessment skills, feedback practice, Hogan 360 data integration, and training in specific Hogan solutions.

• Qualify To Administer Hogan Assessments
  Complete foundational certification to qualify to administer Hogan’s core personality assessments.
• Interpret Assessment Results With Greater Depth
  Build foundational interpretation skills and learn to connect assessment data and extract deeper interpretive value.
• Deliver Effective Assessment Feedback
  Develop practical skills for delivering Hogan feedback, handling challenges, and building developmental action plans.
• Use Assessment Data Ethically And Legally
  Build understanding of assessment data and help ensure Hogan products are used ethically and legally.
• Choose A Workshop Format
  Select an online or in-person workshop, or arrange a private group workshop.
• Build Skills And Learn Hogan Solutions
  Continue learning online, practice feedback delivery, learn Hogan 360 data integration, and train in specific Hogan products and solutions.
• Earn Continuing Education Credits
  Earn approved credits through eligible workshops led directly by Hogan.

Custom Assessment Solutions

Hogan creates custom research and assessment solutions around an organization’s specific talent needs. For hiring, research can use job analysis, subject matter expertise, and relevant performance data to develop custom profiles. Hogan can align assessments with an organization’s competency model and create reports measuring defined dimensions. Custom approaches are also offered for career and leadership development needs.

• Tailor Research To Specific Talent Needs
  Develop a research approach tailored to organizational hiring or development needs.
• Build Profiles For Specific Roles
  Create profiles based on job-relevant characteristics and role information.
• Set Hiring Standards Using Performance Data
  Use employee assessment and performance data to identify characteristics associated with high performance.
• Measure Competencies In Your Organization’s Language
  Receive a custom report measuring defined competencies with relevant scoring.

Academic Collaborations

Hogan collaborates with students and professors worldwide on research involving its assessments. Collaborations can provide access to assessments for participants, predictor and criterion data from Hogan’s archive, or information about Hogan assessments and reports. The program supports theses, dissertations, lab research, and class papers or presentations. Collaborations require a contract outlining both parties’ duties; a student’s advisor must also sign the agreement.

• Explore Archival Research Data
  Draw on archived predictor and criterion data for research questions.
• Collect Data From Research Participants
  Use Hogan assessments with participants in research studies.
• Support Academic Research Projects
  Use the collaboration program for a range of academic research activities.
• Learn About Hogan Assessments And Reports
  Consult assessment information and related resources for research.