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Personality Screener Questions

Gauge who you'd be speaking to via personality screeners!

Personality screeners may help you gauge who you'll be speaking to. Sometimes personality is a hard criterion (you only want a certain type), and sometimes it's context to read before inviting.

Some examples of when you may use one:

  • Recruiting introverts or quieter personalities to test a mental health app

  • Recruiting talkative, expressive people to react to a marketing ad

  • Recruiting creative minds to help shape a new product

Multiple-choice examples

Multiple-choice questions are the ones that affect an applicant's eligibility score, so use these when personality is a must-have. Mark the options that fit your audience as approve and the rest as reject.

Which tasks do you perform in your day-to-day life?

  • Managing a team

  • Gardening

  • Sports with mates

  • Staying in bed

  • Writing code

  • Creating art or music

  • Spending time with family

  • Analysing spreadsheets and data

  • Mentoring and coaching others

  • Training my pet

  • Thinking about deep life questions

  • Meeting with clients

  • Journaling

  • Reading the news

  • Other

Which 3 words would a friend or family member use to describe you?

  • Creative

  • Ambitious

  • Adventurous

  • Intellectual

  • Imaginative

  • Serious

  • Quiet

  • Reserved

  • Expressive

  • Loud

  • Up to date with current affairs

  • Prefer to keep opinions to myself

  • Easily influenced

  • Influential

  • Open-minded

  • Other

Short answer examples

Short answer questions give you a feel for how someone expresses themselves, which is often the best personality signal of all. Just know that open-text answers carry no weight in eligibility scoring; they're for you to read when hand picking participants, not for the system to screen on. Consider pairing them with at least one multiple-choice question if personality is a hard criterion.

If you could have dinner with a prominent person or celebrity, who would it be and why?

If you were starting a business, what would it be and why?

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