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Orpheus, a broad-spectrum work-based personality questionnaire, is designed to help inform the decisions that will affect whether individuals are hired for the right roles in the right working environments.
Background
Orpheus has been developed by the highly regarded psychometrician and the only Professor of Psychometrics in the UK, Dr John Rust. Based on the well-established ‘Big Five’ model, currently recognised as the most stable and well-defined structure of personality, Orpheus contains 190 items, generating scores on 16 scales, of which the ‘Big Five’ are Fellowship, Authority, Conformity, Emotion and Detail. The minor scales are based on the Prudentius model of integrity, making Orpheus the most versatile personality-profiling tool available in the market today.
Using Orpheus
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Selection - Candidates can be screened for specific characteristics required for particular roles. For example, someone required to work in a call centre fielding customer complaints would need a very different personality to someone managing a high-pressure sales team. The results of the test should not be used in isolation from other information about the candidate but can be used as an additional source of information.
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Development - Orpheus is best applied in situations where it is desirable to uncover barriers and reveal enablers to go forward.
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High potential and leadership development - Personality does not predict performance but it does provide substantial information about the barriers and enablers to performance and the type of work situations that would suit an individual best. Getfeedback uses Orpheus as a key component of high potential and leadership assessment. Integrated with other assessments, Orpheus is a key component to Getfeedback’s performance based and holistic Talent Identification Assessment.
Standardisation
Orpheus was administered to 423 respondents in a variety of occupations over 20 organisations in the UK. Age profile, level of education and ethnicity is broadly in line with the intended market for Orpheus. The accumulated data from all respondents in the standardisation study provide the general population norms for Orpheus and are used to produce the standardised stanine scores in the narrative report.
The test conforms to British Psychological Society and American Psychological Association guidelines on personality test construction and use.
Accreditation Requirement
In order to see the reports from the Orpheus, British Psychological Society (BPS) Level B accreditation is required. If this is not held Getfeedback can provide a qualified consultant to provide feedback on the report.
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