The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) describes normal, or bright-side personality – qualities that describe how we relate to others when we are at our best. Whether your goal is to find the right hire or develop stronger leaders, assessing normal personality gives you valuable insight into how people work, how they lead, and how successful they will be.
Quick Facts
15- to 20-minute completion time
Available in more than 40 languages
Based on the Five-Factor Model
More than three million participants assessed
Validated for use in more than 1000 research studies
No invasive or intrusive items
No adverse impact
Instantaneous scoring and reporting output
Online administration
The HPI was developed in the 1980s in the context of socio-analytic theory. Within this model, getting along with and getting ahead of others are seen as the dominant themes in social life. The HPI captures key behavioral tendencies relevant to these life themes and are based on the five-factor model of personality.
The Hogan Personality Inventory is comprised of seven primary scales, six occupational scales, and 42 subscales.
Scale Name
Low scorers tend to be
High scorers tend to be
Adjustment
Open to feedback
Candid and honest
Moody and self-critical
Calm
Steady under pressure
Resistant to feedback
Ambition
Good team players
Willing to let others lead
Complacent
Energetic
Competitive
Restless and forceful
Sociability
Good at working alone
Quiet
Socially reactive
Outgoing
Talkative
Attention-seeking
Interpersonal Sensitivity
Direct and frank
Willing to confront others
Cold and tough
Friendly
Warm
Conflict averse
Prudence
Flexible
Open-minded
Impulsive
Organized
Dependable
Inflexible
Inquisitive
Practical
Not easily bored
Uninventive
Imaginative
Quick-witted
Poor implementers
Learning Approach
Hands-on learners
Focused on their interests
Technology averse
Interested in learning
Insightful
Intolerant of the less informed
Occupational Scales
Service Orientation: attentiveness and courteousness toward customers
A simple, easy-to-use hiring tool that quickly measures how employable a candidate is based on basic job requirements.
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Organizations need an effective way to evaluate large applicant pools, but many entry-level or hourly positions don’t need exhaustive, time-consuming analysis. General Employability uses a streamlined, brief assessment to provide a visual representation of a candidate’s basic ability to do the job. The quick snapshot displays how employable a candidate is based on their people skills, learning skills, and work ethic, along with a fit recommendation and customized interview questions.
Used for high-volume employee selection with a hiring recommendation.
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Certification Recommended
Hogan Fit is used for high-volume employee selection. It provides a hiring recommendation and a graphical display of scale and cut-score performance, and can be easily customized to include hiring recommendations for multiple positions.
Provides early career advice based on strengths and shortcomings.
Certification:
Certification Recommended
Hogan Career describes how employees will act in various business circumstances, identifies their strengths and shortcomings, and provides detailed development tips to manage their careers. The report is designed to provide guidance for career development.
Helps new leaders and first-time managers understand how their personality characteristics may influence their leadership effectiveness.
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Report Training Required
Certification Recommended
Leadership is complex and multi-dimensional. Regardless of your current or aspirational role, you are constantly making leadership impressions on those around you. For first-time leaders or managers, understanding how their personality characteristics define their leadership style can be difficult and hinder their ability to lead. Hogan’s Leader Focus Report simplifies and provides insight into six leadership dimensions that influence leadership style and effectiveness: Thought Leader, Process Leader, Results Leader, Social Leader, Data Leader, and People Leader.
Out-of-the-box solution for hiring high revenue-generating sales professionals, used for a broad range of sales jobs across industries.
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Sales Basis is an out-of-the-box solution for hiring high revenue-generating sales professionals, used for a broad range of sales jobs across industries.
Designed to help team members gain an understanding of team strengths, weaknesses, and culture.
Certification:
Certification Required
Team Report Certification Required
Hogan Team is designed to help team members gain a holistic, personality-based understanding of team strengths, weaknesses, and culture, and to understand how members’ personalities and motivators may support or hinder team effectiveness in light of the team’s character, business, context, and goals. The report draws on personality assessment to help teams identify and understand three internal dynamics: strengths and weaknesses, potential fracture lines, and culture and shared values.
Snapshot of interpersonal performance, organizational fit, and a primer for performance improvement and shifts in behavior.
Certification:
Required
Hogan Summary is a self-guided interpretation of individual strengths, values, and challenges. The report is a snapshot of interpersonal performance, organizational fit, and a primer for performance improvement and shifts in behavior.
Predicts how others describe a leader’s day-to-day approach to work and leadership along with behavioral and leadership implications, competency analysis, and development recommendations.
Certification:
Not Required
Hogan Potential identifies leadership potential by detailing inherent personality characteristics which contribute to the achievement of goals and desires. The Potential Report predicts how others describe a leader’s day-to-day approach to work and leadership along with behavioral and leadership implications, competency analysis, and development recommendations.
Out-of-the-box solution that identifies a candidate’s strengths and potential areas of weakness for leadership roles.
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Certification Required
Leader Basis is an out-of-the-box solution that identifies a candidate’s strengths and potential areas of weakness for leadership roles and provides a hiring recommendation.
Accurately evaluates potential talent in prospective and incumbent employees by determining key attributes, qualities, and skills
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Certification Recommended
We leveraged three decades of experience and billions of data points to build Hogan Configure, the only competency solution that puts Hogan’s predictive power and scientific rigor at your fingertips. Using a simple yet robust web-based platform, Configure’s three-step process helps you determine key attributes, qualities, and skills, allowing you to accurately evaluate potential talent in prospective and incumbent employees.
Identifies strengths, as well as potential shortcomings, with tips to optimize employee performance.
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Certification Recommended
Hogan Manage provides effective techniques for managing your employees based on their personalities. It identifies employees’ strengths, as well as their potential shortcomings, with tips to optimize employee performance.
Designed for use by a coach or user with expertise to interpret based on numbers alone.
Certification:
Required
Hogan Flash graphically displays Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory scale scores and provides raw data for HPI, HDS, and MVPI subscales. No interpretation information is provided. The report is designed for use by a coach or user with expertise to interpret based on numbers alone.
Identifies safety-minded candidates, focuses and improves training, and recognizes and repairs safety-related gaps in your organizational culture.
Certification:
Report Training Recommended
Advances in equipment and procedures have improved worker safety, but traditional safety training programs continue to neglect the overwhelming cause of workplace catastrophes: human error.
Safety uses personality assessment to evaluate workers along six safety-related competencies. Using Safety, you can identify safety-minded candidates, focus and improve training, and recognize and repair safety-related gaps in your organizational culture.
Outlines candidates’ strengths and areas of concern and evaluates whether he or she is suited for employment in a safety-critical work environment.
Certification:
Report Training Recommended
SafeSystem uses personality assessment to evaluate workers along six safety-related competencies. Using SafeSystem, you can identify safety-minded candidates, focus and improve training, and recognize and repair safety-related gaps in your organizational culture.
The Safety Report outlines candidates’ strengths and areas of concern and evaluates whether he or she is suited for employment in a safety-critical work environment.
Provides a graphic summary and interpretation of a candidate’s safety-related behavior and outline strengths and areas of concern for a particular work environment.
Certification:
Report Training Recommended
SafeSystem uses personality assessment to evaluate workers along six safety-related competencies. Using SafeSystem, you can identify safety-minded candidates, focus and improve training, and recognize and repair safety-related gaps in your organizational culture.
The Safety Report for Development provides a graphic summary and interpretation of a candidate’s safety-related behavior. These results outline strengths and areas of concern for a particular work environment.
Provides leaders with an understanding of their strengths, challenges, and underlying motivators. Requires feedback from a certified coach/user.
Certification:
Certification Required
The Hogan Leadership Forecast Series includes four development-focused reports. Based on Hogan’s trademark assessments, the Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory, each report offers information regarding the characteristics, competencies, and values that underlie how a leader approaches work, leadership, and interaction with others in the workplace.
Explores a mid-level manager’s strengths, performance risks, and values, and can be used as a feedback tool for selection or development.
Certification:
Certification Required
The Insight Series provides organizations with scientifically validated information about an individual’s strengths, performance risks, and core values. Used as a feedback tool for selection or development, the easy-to-understand report series gives emerging and mid-level managers the self-awareness needed to perform effectively.
Intended to help the emergent leader become more effective and the effective leader be more emergent, resulting in maximized leadership potential.
Certification:
Certification Required
High Potential Certification Required
Hogan High Potential Talent Solution is development focused to equip an organization’s high-potential talent population to become the next leaders. Potential for what? Potential to build and lead teams that can consistently outperform the competition. Some people who appear to have leadership potential are often not effective leaders; conversely, many effective employees are overlooked for promotion because they do not self-promote enough to get noticed. The Hogan High Potential Model measures the three dimensions of leadership potential, highlighting individual strengths and ranked areas of actionable development. The intent is to prioritize areas where focus and attention should be targeted, resulting in maximized leadership potential.
Identifies each candidate as high, moderate, or low fit for a job.
Certification:
Report Training Recommended
Certification Recommended
Hogan Express is an out-of-the-box solution that identifies each candidate as high, moderate, or low fit for a job. The report identifies the candidate’s strengths, areas of concern, and interview style based on seven dimensions that influence occupational success within seven job categories: Managers & Executives, Professionals, Technicians & Specialists, Operations & Trades, Sales & Customer Support, Administrative & Clerical, and Service & Support.
Custom solution that describes job fit and provides a hiring recommendation, interview guide, and method for making a hiring decision.
Certification:
Certification Required
Report Training Recommended
Hogan Basis describes a candidate’s fit to the job and organization. The report provides a hiring recommendation, behavioral interview guide, and systematic method for making a hiring decision using a combination of the assessment and interview results.
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