Psychometric Profiling (Testing)

Our Psychometric Profiling Services can help you Discover your innate strengths, development areas, learning style preference, personality type and more... Providing you with valuable outcomes to make informed career and personal decisions

Gain Valuable Career and Personal Development Insights

Unleash the power of our expertly crafted Psychometric Profiling (Testing) Services and gain invaluable insights to drive your career, recruitment, learning style preferences, and personal development forward. This will enable us to establish baselines and create actionable plans tailored to your unique professional or personal journey.

Since 2005, Katherine has been delivering comprehensive Psychometric Profiling Services to a wide range of clients, including minors, high school students (15+ years of age), TAFE, vocational and university graduates, professionals, adults, couples, and organisations across Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Newcastle, Port Stephens, Lower Hunter, Upper Hunter, Mid-North Coast and various other regions of NSW and Australia.

Her accreditations in Personality Type and qualifications in Counselling and Human Resources empowers her to purchase, administer, and report on various psychometric instruments, ensuring ethical and reliable outcomes based on your responses.

Partner with Blu Ripples and tap into our wealth of knowledge and years of experience to receive reliable outcomes based on your responses, baselines, support and actionable plans for your personal and professional growth.

Range of Psychometric Instruments

At Blu Ripples, we offer a wide variety of psychometric assessments. These assessments are obtained from reputable sources such as educational institutions, educational research organisations, and other service providers. We provide online, paper-based, and card-based assessments to accommodate different preferences and needs. Each psychometric assessment is carefully selected to offer valuable insights into various aspects of your personal and professional skills, abilities, and personality. The results from these assessments can assist you in making informed decisions, identifying areas for growth, and maximising your potential.

Our range of psychometric assessments includes eight categories and 30+ instruments:

Aptitude Assessment

Aptitude Assessments, a crucial component in employers’ recruitment and selection process, also play a significant role in guiding individuals in the career planning phase. These assessments, such as those administered by Blu Ripples, evaluate an individual’s ability to perform specific tasks or skills and identify innate capabilities. By measuring a range of aptitudes, including applied reading, abstract reasoning, numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning, and mechanical reasoning, they provide valuable guidance on an individual’s potential for success in various job roles.

Blu Ripples administers six (6) sub-categories of aptitude instruments.

Within each sub-category, there may be multiple instruments to select from, including long and short forms.

Online Aptitude Instruments include:-

Applied Reading (Basic Literacy, General/Clerical and Technical/Trades)
Abstract Reasoning
Employment Entry Mathematics
Mechanical Reasoning
Numerical Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning

Card Sorters

Experience a unique approach to personal and career assessment with Card Sorts. Using the Card Sorter cards, you can easily identify your career interests, values, hobbies, and motivated skills. By engaging in this process, you will gain valuable insights into your career preferences, empowering you to make well-informed decisions about your career path.

Blu Ripples proudly offers five (5) card sorter instruments:

Career Card Sorters
Career Values Card Sorts
Hobbies and Interests Card Sorts
Transferable Skills Cards
Motivated Skills Card Sorts

Career Assessment Instrument

Career Assessment Instruments are powerful, practical self-assessment tools that provide valuable insights into your career preferences, skills, and interests. These instruments, which can include surveys and tests, measure various aspects of career-related factors, such as bureaucratic orientation, conflict resolution, job satisfaction, and values assessment. By gaining a better understanding of yourself and your career goals, these instruments can guide you towards a more fulfilling career.

Blu Ripples administers eleven (11) paper-based Career Assessment Instruments: –

Bureaucratic Orientation Test
Career Assessment Survey
Career Interest Test
Change Receptivity – (Dogmatism – Open/Closed Mindedness)
Conflict Resolution
Job Satisfaction (Current Job)
Locus of Control
Management Communication
Power Orientation (Machiavellianism)
Values Assessment
Work Needs

Career Interest Surveys

Discover Your Path Forward! Uncover your true career interests with our online Career Interest Surveys. These career interest assessments offer personalised career suggestions based on your unique responses. Take one or more of the surveys individually or as part of the Career Planning, Career Interest Foundation Report or Career Development Report process in order to explore potential career paths that align with your interests and gain the confidence to make informed career decisions.

Blu Ripples administers four (4) online Career Interest Surveys: –

Ashland Interest Assessment
Jackson Career Explorer
Jackson Vocational Interest Survey
Self-Directed Search

Counselling and Mental Health Assessments

Counselling and Mental Health Assessments are tools used by professionals to evaluate various aspects of an individual’s mental well-being. These instruments can include signs and symptom surveys and scales that measure burnout, depression, anxiety, stress, and recent stressful events and provide insights in to compatibility (relationships), feelings and coping skills.. They can be administered through a combination of paper, card, and online formats to help individuals gain insights into their mental health and make informed decisions about their well-being.

Specifically, Blu Ripples administers the following Counselling and Mental Health Assessments:

Burnout Survey – Signs and Symptoms
Compatibility Cards
Coping Scales for Adolescents (ACS-2)
Coping Scales for Adults (CSA-2)
Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS 21) – Signs & Symptoms Survey for Adults
Depression Signs and Symptoms Survey for Children
Feelings Inventory
Recent Stressful Events Survey– Signs and Symptoms for Children (3-18 Years)

Learning Styles Preferences

Learning Style Preference Assessments are used to identify an individual’s preferred learning style, such as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. These assessments are administered on paper, and help individuals understand their preferred method to process and retain information. By understanding their learning style preferences, individuals can tailor their learning experiences to maximise their educational and professional growth.

Personality Type Assessments

Personality Type Assessments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Major’s PTI and Workplace Personality Index (WPI) are online assessments that help individuals understand their personality traits and preferences. These assessments provide insights into various aspects of personality, such as workplace behaviour, career development, and leadership style. By understanding their personality type, individuals can gain self-awareness and make informed decisions about their career paths.

Recruitment and Selection Assessments

Recruitment and Selection Assessments are used by organisations to evaluate job applicants and determine their suitability for specific roles. These assessments can include employee screening questionnaires, workplace personality indexes, and various online assessments. By using these assessments, employers can make informed decisions about hiring the right candidates for their organisations.

Access to Other Instrumentation

Blu Ripples, led by Katherine, has the expertise and qualifications to access a wide range of psychometric instruments beyond those listed above. Katherine’s accreditations and registration as an ACER Education Specialist in HR 1, 2, and S5 categories enable her to offer a diverse selection of instruments. If you have a specific instrument in mind that is not listed, please reach out to Katherine to discuss your needs.

Benefits of Psychometric Profiling

When used correctly and ethically, psychometric instruments can provide individuals and employers with various benefits. Here are a few potential benefits:

Potential Benefits for Individuals

Identifying and establishing career interests, aptitude, and skills baselines
Highlighting key transferable skills in employment documentation
Identifying learning and development areas and strategising development opportunities
Supporting your case for a promotion or pay increase by showcasing skill improvements

Potential Benefits for Employers

Candidate selection and evaluation
Change management
Developing internal or sourcing external learning and development opportunities
Performance management
Succession planning or leadership development
Talent diversification needs
Team building
Training needs analysis within departments or across the organisation

Purpose of Using “Psychometric Profiling” and “Instrumentation”

We use the terms “psychometric profiling” and “psychometric testing” to improve our visibility on search engines. By including common words and phrases that people might use to find our services, we can better connect with those who could benefit from our expertise.

It’s important to understand that psychometric instruments are not conventional tests or assessments. They involve expressing preferences through various methods such as cards, scales, surveys, inventories, and type instruments. Your responses to these instruments influence the outcome of the profiling based on your individual perceptions and preferences. There are no right or wrong answers; it’s merely about understanding your unique characteristics.

Have Questions?

If you have any inquiries regarding the psychometric instruments we administer and report on, the best instruments for your individual or organisational needs, the psychometric process, time-frames, costing, or administration and ethics considerations, please feel free to reach out. We are here to provide you with the information and support you need to make informed decisions about our psychometric profiling services.