Understanding Potential testing results

An overview of the Potential testing report

You've completed the assessments - now what?

Once you’ve completed each of the four assessments in Potential, your personalised report will be automatically generated. This report is your gateway to understanding more about how you think, work, and thrive—offering practical insights into potential career pathways that align with your natural strengths.

Your report contains the following key components:

By exploring your results you'll gain valuable insights into your strengths and potential areas for growth. This self-awareness can empower you to leverage your natural talents, enhance your interpersonal relationships, and identify opportunities for personal and professional development. 

Let’s explore each section.

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 Archetype: Are you a Doer, Creative, or Translator?

This is the first insight you’ll see. The archetype groups individuals into one of three broad working styles based on personality, problem-solving, and communication traits.

 Doer

• Traits: Action-oriented, practical, task-focused
• Strengths: Execution, hands-on problem-solving, consistency
• Career Paths: Project delivery, technical support, operations, logistics

 Creator

• Traits: Innovative, expressive, big-picture thinker
• Strengths: Idea generation, visual communication, storytelling
• Career Paths: Design, marketing, user experience, innovation

Translator

• Traits: Analytical, strategic, bridge-builder
• Strengths: Communication across teams, systems thinking, adaptability
• Career Paths: Business analysis, systems integration, strategy, facilitation

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Culture fit

In Potential, we refer to the Big Five personality traits as your "Culture Fit" because these traits reflect how you naturally interact with others, approach work, and respond to your environment.

While technical skills can be learned, how well someone aligns with a team’s communication style, values, and pace of work plays a huge role in long-term success and satisfaction in a role.

By assessing your Big Five traits, we help identify:

• Workplaces where you'll thrive
• Teams where your personality complements others
• Roles where you can bring your best self to work. 

It's not about changing who you are - it's about finding the right environment that fits you.

Here is a detailed personality snapshot across five scientifically validated traits, here is an overview:

Trait	What it measures	High score implication
Openness	Curiosity, creativity, open-mindedness	Comfortable with change and abstract thinking
Conscientiousness	Organization, attention to detail	Reliable, disciplined, goal-oriented
Extraversion	Sociability, energy in social situations	Enjoys collaboration, energised by people
Agreeableness	Empathy, cooperation	Works well in teams, conflict-averse
Neuroticism	Resilience, stress tolerance	More sensitive to stressful situations

 

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Psychometric Testing: Understanding your behavioural style

The psychometric component of your Potential profile is based on the DISC behavioural assessment, a model that helps explain how you naturally behave in a range of workplace scenarios - especially when interacting with others or responding to challenges.

DISC stands for:

• Dominance – Results-focused, direct, confident decision-makers

• Influence – Social, enthusiastic, and persuasive communicators

• Steadiness – Reliable, patient, team-oriented collaborators

• Conscientiousness – Analytical, detail-focused, and structured thinkers

Your DISC profile reveals your most natural behavioural tendencies, including how you prefer to work, communicate, and make decisions. Whether you’re a fast-moving Dominant type or a thoughtful and supportive Steady type, this insight helps you (and potential employers or mentors) better understand what kind of environments will allow you to thrive.

 

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Next up: Aptitude

Think of the aptitude profile: as a cognitive strengths snapshot

Unlike traditional assessments that reduce aptitude to a single “IQ-style” number, the Potential suite takes a strengths-based approach.

Each person has a unique combination of cognitive abilities, and we believe it’s more valuable to identify specific areas where you naturally excel - whether that's numerical reasoning, verbal analysis, spatial thinking, or abstract pattern recognition.

This multi-dimensional view helps you:

• Discover what kind of problems you're best at solving
• Recognize how your thinking style fits different roles
• Identify upskilling opportunities based on your strengths

Your aptitude profile is not a pass/fail score - it’s a roadmap to growth.

We focus on potential, not perfection. By understanding your strongest areas of learning and thinking, we can better guide you toward roles where you’ll learn faster, feel more confident, and succeed over time.

The aptitude test measures your raw cognitive abilities - your capacity to learn, reason, and adapt. This is less about what you know and more about how quickly you can learn new things. It evaluates:

 

Aptitude Type	What It Measures	Example Applications
Abstract Reasoning	Ability to identify patterns, logical rules, and trends in unfamiliar data	Problem-solving, system design, strategic thinking
Digit Symbol Coding	Speed and accuracy in pairing symbols with numbers or codes	Data entry, rapid processing, attention to detail
Written Language	Understanding and using grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure	Report writing, documentation, communication roles
Numerical Reasoning	Comfort with numbers, data, and basic calculations	Finance, analytics, operations
Recognition Memory	Ability to quickly recall visual information accurately	Surveillance, UI testing, security, compliance
Spatial Reasoning	Understanding and manipulating shapes and spatial relations	Architecture, design, logistics, 3D modelling
Verbal Reasoning	Understanding and processing verbal information and logic	Customer service, negotiations, training delivery

 

Each area will be scored to show how you performed compared to the general population.

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Learning style preference

Understanding how you naturally learn can make a huge difference in how you approach training, career development, and even day-to-day work. Potential explores your dominant learning styles to help tailor your development journey.

This model blends insights from the well-known VARK framework with elements from Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, giving a more complete picture of your preferred way to absorb and process information.

Here’s a breakdown of the 7 learning styles:

Learning Style	Description	Best Learning Methods
Visual	Learns through images, diagrams, spatial understanding	Mind maps, charts, colour-coded notes, visual guides
Auditory	Learns through hearing and listening	Lectures, discussions, podcasts, verbal repetition
Verbal	Learns through words, both spoken and written	Reading, writing, storytelling, presentations
Kinesthetic	Learns by doing; prefers movement and hands-on activities	Role play, physical tasks, real-life simulations
Logical	Learns through reasoning, patterns, and systems	Step-by-step processes, logic puzzles, flowcharts
Interpersonal	Learns best in group settings, through interaction and collaboration	Group discussions, peer learning, team projects
Intrapersonal	Learns best alone, with self-directed reflection and goal-setting	Journaling, independent study, quiet environments

 

What’s Next? Career Pathway Suggestions

Based on your results, the Potential suite will recommend industries and job families aligned with your cognitive strengths, personality profile, and working style. This includes:

• Suggested career clusters
• Role fit match indicators

 

 

Ready to Explore?

If you're working with a career advisor or program facilitator, bring your report to your next session to unpack the results together. If you're navigating independently, use the recommendations as a guide to map your training or job search journey.