Work Style Lens™ (WS-Lens)
Assess work styles and soft-skills to match candidates to the job and reduce turnover
A Reliable and Valid Measure of Work Styles
The Work Style Lens™ (WS-Lens) is a reliable, fair, and valid measure of the work styles that contribute to and influence job success. Gain insight into an individual’s likely fit to the work style requirements of a role and predict their success. Our test offers valid and meaningful insights into people’s interpersonal attributes and work styles that give HR professionals the ability to predict how candidates are likely to perform in the job, using actual data from over 900 job descriptions.
Use
Recruitment, Selection, Assessment, Career Guidance, Career Development, Team Development
Format
25-35 minutes
Online
Untimed
Languages
UK English, US English
Why Use the Work Style Lens?
Predict job performance
Work Style Lens™ has good potential for improved prediction of job performance and other important outcomes (i.e., incremental validity) when used in combination with measures of ability.
Avoid costly hiring mistakes
WS-Lens includes an “unlikely virtues” scale, helping to detect falsified responses which could lead to poor hiring outcomes.
Make confident decisions
WS-Lens has updated norms and maps directly to a taxonomy of job characteristics called O*NET, with up-to-date information for over 900 occupations. Results are accurate, up-to-date and stable, providing meaningful insight into how a candidate's personality will influence their workplace behavior.
Candidate Insights
WS-Lens produces results that indicate a person's likelihood to be leadership oriented, tolerant of stress, inclined to independent work, and much more; enabling you to identify candidates who will be the right fit.
Learning and Development
A development report that will help new hires with their own self-awareness and can guide their direct managers to support them effectively
What Does Work Style Lens™ Measure?
WS-Lens measures 16 workstyles grouped into 4 themes:
- Relating to People: Leadership, Social Orientation, Cooperation, Concern for Others.
- Dealing with Emotions: Self-Control, Stress Tolerance, Flexibility/Adaptability.
- Approaching Work: Dependability, Attention to Detail, Rule Following, Achievement/Effort, Persistence, Initiative
- Thinking Styles: Innovation, Analytical Thinking, Independence.
WS-Lens results are based on self-description, so the accuracy of these results depends on the respondent’s honesty and openness in answering the questionnaire.
"We chose Work Style Lens™ because the assessment identifies traits such as cooperation, dependability and concern for others, it really fit into the culture we were trying to build"
Barry Burns, Senior Director of Human Resources - Methodist Medical Center Hospitals, San Antonio, USA