An Assessment Tool to Predict Business Success

The MAT80 was designed specifically to identify candidates with the potential to be ‘High Earners’ in a business career. The assessment has 4 sections:
Business personality, motivation & leadership
Problem solving, creativity & innovation
Business numeracy
Business communication
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“Measurement of ability and personality provides for effective and efficient prediction of future success.”
Professor Paul Irwing
Professor of Psychometrics Alliance Manchester Business School Editor of the Wiley Handbook of Psychometric Testing

Measuring Personality for Business Success

Assessing winning skills in business does not have to be left to subjective judgment. Personality scales developed for the MAT80 are based on extensive analysis and validation of scales using Bartram’s predictors of business success, as judged by managerial job performance.

Every psychometric item (question) has an average of 100 hours development, including language sensitivity testing for candidates with English as a second language, and confirmatory factor analysis to ensure the quality of the scales.

Order, Achievement, Leadership & Stress Resistance
Successful managers are well-organised, plan in advance with an ability to have an overall view, define achievable goals, take responsibility, and guide others are the most critical traits common to successful managers.
Assertiveness, Optimism, Curiosity & Intrinsic Motivation
Successful managers rely on their optimism to take on new challenges, and to inspire and motivate their colleagues. They engage with both the external world and their own internal thoughts. They demonstrate confidence in what they want and show determination, clear and honest communication in their drive to get it.
Problem Solving Creativity & Innovation
MAT80 uses a number of core measures developed for me2 General Factor of Creativity, the world’s most advanced tool to assess and develop creative thinking in individuals.

Overall Scores & Business Personality

Reports are designed to allow for quick assessment.

The overall scores show a weighted average for ability and personality, and the business success characteristics are listed in priority order.

Business Numeracy

The Business Numeracy section of the MAT80 is both a substantial test of pure IQ delivered in the language of business and a measure of ‘Applied Intelligence’ tapping into business acumen.

Additionally, the Business Numeracy questions assess wider, more important questions such as rule following, attention to detail and understanding business by numbers. The questions have been written in clear, unambiguous and internationally understandable language.

The Business Numeracy test delivers over 10,000,000 different combinations to candidates by randomising certain values, making it impossible to cheat.

The Business Numeracy report shows the exact questions offered to the candidate (including their particular randomly chosen values), the correct answers and the answers inputted by the candidate.

The report allows you to understand where a candidate went wrong. There is also a colour code to show if the candidate was arithmetically correct but failed on one of the wider rules such as working to two decimal places.

Business Reasoning

This section of the assessment provides an insight into the candidate’s interest in business issues and ability to communicate clearly and effectively under pressure.

The open-ended format allows further insight to discriminate between high-achieving candidates, and provides basis for discussion in an interview.

MAT80 Group Report

Recruitment teams can also download at any time group reports showing the overall score for up to 25 candidates per page. This allows recruiters to easily scan and select those candidates with stronger scores.

MAT80 Candidate Report

The 25-page candidate report and interpretation guide can be used for training and development with successful candidates.

Each report contains the same sections as the recruiter’s report with full explanations to allow the candidate to see their scores. The interpretation provides positives and negatives for both high and low scores on each of the scales.