SOSIE 2nd Generation™

Predict job performance and cultural fit by assessing personality traits and values

Uncover Valuable Insights into Personality and Values

As one of the most widely used personality inventory, SOSIE 2nd Generation™ provides valuable insights into the personality, values, or motivations of an individual. Insights from SOSIE 2nd Generation can help improve job performance, learning and development, job satisfaction and loyalty.

Use

Recruitment, Assessment, Coaching, Personal Development, Career Management, and Mobility

Format

80 items, 25 to 30 minutes



Languages

English (UK, AUS, India), French, Dutch, German, Portuguese (Brazil)

Why Use Sosie 2nd Generation™ Test?

Identify quickly professional strengths and weaknesses

SOSIE 2nd Generation™ helps you to see how a candidate's personality traits can influence their performance and development.

Avoid Costly Recruitment Errors

Our assessment helps to reduce recruitment errors and costs linked to a mismatch of values between the candidate and their professional environment.  

Make Decisions Backed by Psychometric Data

Objective results based on psychometric data ensure you have confidence and data to back your decision making.

Enhance Talent Management with Skill Insights

Analysis of skills and development areas contributes to better talent management, making your recruitment more effective. 

Save Time in Your HR Processess

A quick and flexible questionnaire with instant scoring and results, that can be conduct remotely and helps to optimize recruiters' and candidates' time.

Uncover What Truly Drives Your Candidates

Stimulate discussion with your candidates based on dynamic insight into a candidate’s values and behaviors.

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What Does SOSIE 2nd Generation™ Measure?

Validated and scientifically based tool, based on the Big Five model ensuring reliable and accurate assessments, our solution assesses 20 decisive dimensions: 

  • Personality Traits: Dominance, Responsibility, Stress Resistance, Sociability, Cautiousness , Original Thinking, Personal Relations, Vigour
  • Interpersonal Values: Support (from others), Conformity, Recognition, Independence, Benevolence (towards others), Power (control over or directing others)
  • Personal Values: Materialism, Achievement, Variety, Conviction, Orderliness, Goal Orientation
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A Fulfilling Training Experience

Completion of the BPS Test User: Occupational Personality (Level B) Verified course provides an industry standard qualification and enables use of SOSIE 2nd Generation™. It provides a comprehensive understanding of personality constructs and their use in occupational environments.

A Conversion or Qualification course is also available for individuals already trained in using a trait-based personality assessment, or for those only wishing to train to use SOSIE 2nd Generation. A bespoke bureau/consultancy service is also available, for those not trained in the test.

"SOSIE 2nd Generation™ enables us to avoid the risk of errors during hiring by addressing in interviews points that we may not have identified during a simple exchange with a candidate.”

Isabelle Deprez, Recruitment Officer – CT Engineering Group

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