How It Works

The Candidate Potential Report allows you to look beneath the surface to evaluate the suitability of any applicant for any job in the economy. Using a scientific-based approach, we classified every job in the economy into the following job families:

Service and Support
These jobs require people to engage with customers and provide specific services - including cashiers, wait staff, tellers, and dispatchers. Candidates in this category are resilient, self-assured, stable under pressure, organized, and able to confront conflict appropriately.

Administrative and Clerical
Jobs in this category require employees to plan, direct, or coordinate the supportive services of an organization - including secretaries, professional assistants, receptionists, and clerks. These jobs require people who are stable, dependable, detail oriented, and able to handle disagreements tactfully.

Technicians and Specialists
Jobs in this category require specialized knowledge and skilled manipulation of technology, tools, and machinery - including equipment technicians, tradesmen, installation technicians, and plant operators. The ideal candidates are steady under pressure, dependable, organized, and up-to-date with technical developments.

Operations and Trades
These jobs require learning performance skills through on-the-job experience - including truck drivers, craft workers, heavy machine operators, and factory workers. Top job candidates are calm, conscientious, rule abiding, and willing to be supervised and coached.

Sales and Customer Relations
These jobs require social interaction while establishing credible relationships - including sales personnel, telemarketers, customer service representatives, and account managers. Candidates in this category are even tempered, friendly, driven, competitive, and able to handle conflict appropriately.

Professionals
Jobs in this category require experts with broad educational background, advanced knowledge and problem-solving skills - including paralegals, engineers, medical assistants, inspectors, and designers. Candidates in this category need to be self-starting, competitive, achievement oriented, diplomatic, and conscientious.

Managers and Executives
These jobs require the ability to plan projects, delegate responsibility, recruit team members, and supervise subordinates - including supervisors, team leaders, managers, directors, and vice presidents. Ideal candidates are self-confident, socially skilled, achievement oriented, and self-starting.