Personality tests that go beyond surface-level scoring
Understand how people truly think, behave, and perform at work with scientifically grounded personality assessments built for workplace decisions. Support hiring and employee development with structured personality insights grounded in modern personality research.
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A personality assessment built on six dimensions
Sonar® personality inventory is built on the HEXACO model, which extends the traditional Big Five framework with a sixth dimension that proves especially important in professional settings: Honesty-Modesty.
Honesty-Modesty
The 6th factor absent from Big Five. Measures integrity, fairness, and resistance to manipulation. Critical for trust-based and sensitive roles.
4 sub-facetsEmotionality
Measures emotional sensitivity, anxiety, and reliance on others for support. Relevant for high-pressure or emotionally demanding roles.
4 sub-facetseXtraversion
Social confidence, assertiveness, and positive affect. Predictive for client-facing, sales, and team leadership positions.
4 sub-facetsAgreeableness
Patience, flexibility, and cooperative behavior. Indicates fit with collaborative team environments and service-oriented roles.
4 sub-facetsConscientiousness
Organization, diligence, and perfectionism. One of the strongest predictors of job performance across virtually all roles.
4 sub-facetsOpenness to Experience
Curiosity, creativity, and open-mindedness. Indicates fit with roles requiring learning agility or novel problem solving.
4 sub-facetsThe factor that changes hiring decisions
Honesty-Modesty doesn't appear in most assessments. It's the dimension that separates candidates who perform consistently from those who perform when watched.
The dimension most hiring tools leave out
Candidates who score high on Honesty-Modesty avoid manipulation, resist temptation, and don't overstate their achievements. For roles involving confidential information, financial access, or authority over others. This dimension is the most predictive signal available.
The 6th factor in HEXACO - absent from most Big Five assessments.
Scientifically valid and cross-culturally tested
HEXACO is one of the most widely replicated personality frameworks in modern research. Its validity holds across cultures and languages.
24 facets, not just 6 scores
Each of the six dimensions breaks down into four measurable sub-facets, giving you 24 distinct data points. The difference between two candidates with identical top-line scores becomes visible at the facet level.
Broad industry coverage
Sonar® is used across more than 30 job categories from Sales and IT to Healthcare, Finance, and Executive roles. The same inventory surfaces different relevance depending on the position you're evaluating for.
Four layers of insight, one actionable report
The Sonar® report isn't a score sheet. It's a layered document designed to support hiring, onboarding, and development, from a 30 second executive summary to dimension level interview questions.
Executive summary
A snapshot of the candidate's dominant and least dominant traits, paired with a narrative interpretation. Designed for quick review before an interview or decision.
Combines a cooperative, agreeable style with strong conscientiousness. Reliable follow-through paired with low emotional reactivity under pressure.
Dimension scores
All six HEXACO dimensions scored on a 10-point scale, each broken down into four sub-facets. Shows where the individual sits across the full personality spectrum.
Professional tendencies
Two workplace-specific scores, job performance and job satisfaction, derived from the personality profile. Translates trait data into practical predictions.
Interview guide
Targeted interview questions generated for each facet, aligned to the individual's profile. Ready to use in the interview without additional preparation.
Not just a personality test, a complete assessment platform
Sonar® runs on TestInvite, giving organizations the infrastructure to deliver, manage, and scale personality assessments as part of structured hiring and workforce evaluation workflows.
Structured, detailed reports
Generate professional PDF reports automatically after every completed assessment. Share results with hiring teams, managers, or HR without manual formatting or additional reporting work.
Learn more about reporting capabilitiesCombine with other test types
Run Sonar® alongside cognitive ability, skills, or language tests in a single assessment session. Build multi-stage pipelines that evaluate the whole person, not just one dimension.
Large-scale delivery
Deliver personality assessments to thousands of participants at once with automated sessions and real time results. Manage the entire assessment process from a single centralized dashboard.
Learn more about scalabilityWorkflow management
Automate invitations, reminders, and follow ups across your entire participant pool. Track assessment progress and completion status from one centralized workflow.
Personality test software for hiring and employee development
Sonar® is built for workplace decisions, from selecting the right person for a role to understanding how existing employees work, communicate, and develop.
Pre-employment assessment
Understand whether a candidate's behavioral tendencies fit the demands of the role before the interview. The report's interview guide turns profile data into targeted questions ready to use on the day.
Employee development
Use personality profiles to identify development priorities for individual employees. Job satisfaction and performance scores point to where support, coaching, or role adjustments would have the most impact.
Team dynamics
Run Sonar® across an existing team to map working style differences, communication tendencies, and collaboration patterns. Useful for managers building new teams or diagnosing friction in established ones.
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