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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. Both examples below are multi select, so set the answers that fit your audience to Must select. If an answer rules someone out, set it to Knockout.

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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