Personality assessments conducted every year, across more than 3000+ SHL customers
Improve hiring decisions by accurately predicting potential.
- SHL’s Occupational Personality Questionnaire assesses role fit and future performance, leveraging proprietary UCF science and data generated by 40+ years of assessments.
- Make accurate, reduced-bias talent decisions that increase your workforce’s diversity, impact, and retention.
Provide actionable insights across the talent journey.
- Reusable OPQ test data informs hiring decisions and long-term initiatives like high-potential programs and development planning.
- Assess talent once, then make smart, performance-enhancing decisions, from when people join your business to when they lead it.
Offer candidates a more rewarding assessment experience.
- The OPQ takes 20 minutes to complete (in any of 37 languages) and was designed mobile-first, eliminating device result deviation.
- Provide an occupational personality test experience that delights candidates while providing consistent, powerful insights.
How Our Assessment Works
Gain accurate, Insightful assessment of employee potential with the OPQ.





Participants first answer a series of simple questions about their working preferences. This helps us understand which areas of the universal competency framework they are strongest in, and where they might require some development.

Next, we quickly and reliably match this understanding to a scientifically chosen profile, based on your hiring or development requirements and relying on more than 40 years of assessment experience.

You then receive a report on each candidate’s fit, potential, and developmental gaps, integrated seamlessly with your SHL talent acquisition or talent management solution and with your company’s existing applicant tracking system.

SHL’s Occupational Personality Questionnaire helps you make more informed talent decisions so you can consistently drive better business results.
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Transform talent assessment with occupational personality tests.
The OPQ is available on the SHL platform and powers both Talent Acquisition and Talent Management solutions. Discover how we can transform your talent decisions today.
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