What This Report Is (And What It Isn't)
Thank you for taking the time to complete your Spotted Zebra assessment. This report provides insights into your professional strengths and development areas that may be valuable at this current stage in your career.
Important: This report reflects only your assessment results and is completely separate from the hiring decision. Even candidates who receive very positive feedback may not progress to the next stage due to factors like high application volumes or other selection criteria. Equally, areas highlighted for development don't disqualify you from consideration. This feedback is purely for your personal and professional growth.
Understanding What We're Measuring
The results from the personality questionnaire reflects your natural preferences: the ways of working that feel most comfortable and energising. This doesn't mean you can't perform well in lower-scoring areas; those behaviours might simply require more conscious effort or energy. For example, if you prefer spontaneity but work in a role requiring detailed planning, you can absolutely succeed. You might just need to be more deliberate about developing structured approaches, and may find that type of work requires more mental energy than someone who naturally prefers structure.
Because we're measuring innate preferences, your results might remain fairly consistent over time. This isn't a limitation, but rather valuable information about your authentic professional style. The goal isn't to score highly across all skill areas, but to understand yourself better and find roles where you can leverage your natural strengths whilst developing in areas that matter for your career goals.
How to Read Your Results
Your report focuses primarily on soft skills and behavioural preferences important for workplace success. If your assessment included cognitive reasoning tests (the timed components), these evaluate your ability to analyse and evaluate information under pressure and are included when relevant to the role.
Each skill area includes a paragraph describing your predicted strengths or development areas based on your responses, indicating the likelihood that you will naturally demonstrate behaviours associated with that skill. There are four types of feedback to describe your alignment with any given skill:
- "Strength": Very strong level of skill compared to other professionals at your level
- "Relative strength": Better performance than most professionals at your level
- "As skilled as most others": Consistent with the majority of professionals at this level
- "Development area": An opportunity for growth
These descriptions come from comparing your responses to a carefully selected benchmark group of thousands of professionals worldwide, chosen to be relevant to your role level and industry.
How to utilise your results
Leveraging your strengths: Areas described as strengths or relative strengths represent your natural behavioural tendencies. Consider how you can apply these in your current or future roles, and use them to your advantage when articulating your value in interviews or performance discussions.
Working with development areas: These aren't weaknesses but growth opportunities that many successful professionals share. Focus on understanding what behaviours these skills involve and consider whether developing them aligns with your career goals. You might choose to seek roles that naturally suit your preferences, or deliberately develop these areas through practice and learning.
Understanding moderate scores: Areas where you're "as skilled as most others" indicate you have a solid foundation. These might be areas where small improvements could have significant impact, or where you already have the baseline capability to succeed.
Taking a holistic view: Look at your complete profile rather than focusing on individual areas. Your unique combination of preferences can help you understand why certain work energises you whilst other work drains you, make informed career decisions, and recognise when you need to be more intentional about developing certain skills.
We hope you find this feedback helpful in your career journey. Thank you again for your time and thoughtful participation in the assessment process. Should you have any further questions, please feel free to email us at candidate@spottedzebra.co.uk.