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PERSONAL PROFILE ANALYSIS
Get the missing data behind every great hire

Know how candidates communicate, lead, and work under pressure before they join your team. The Thomas PPA assessment provides behavioural data to make smarter hiring decisions, build stronger teams, and onboard new hires faster.

With the Thomas PPA, you can:

  • Avoid costly mis-hires by understanding how candidates actually behave at work, not just how they perform in interviews.
  • Build teams that collaborate by aligning on working styles before day one.
  • Spot future leaders early by identifying the behaviours that drive long-term performance
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What is the Personal Profile Analysis (PPA)?

The Thomas PPA is a behavioural assessment that shows you how someone naturally communicates, makes decisions, and performs under pressure. It gives you the insight that CVs and interviews usually can't.

Built on the DISC model and delivered through the Thomas Assess platform, it takes just 8 minutes and generates instant, visual results your hiring managers can use straight away. No specialist training required.

It measures four key dimensions that directly impact workplace performance:

  • Communication style — how they engage with peers, managers, and clients
  • Pace and decisiveness — whether they move fast, methodically, or need direction
  • Structure vs. adaptability — how they respond to ambiguity and change
  • Preferred environment — where they'll thrive, whether collaborative or independent

Combine it with Aptitude, Personality, and Emotional Intelligence assessments in Thomas Assess for a complete view of each candidate.

Behaviour-format

Why behavioural data
changes the hiring equation. 

 

Confident interviews can mask future friction. A strong CV doesn't tell you how someone leads under pressure, collaborates in a team, or responds when things go wrong. That's the data PPA gives you before you make your offer.

80%

of employee turnover stems from bad hiring decisions.

30%

of an employee’s first-year salary — that’s what a bad hire can cost your business.

14%

that’s how much unstructured interviews actually predict future performance.

How it works

When you're hiring at volume or speed, you need insights that are fast, reliable, and easy to act on. Thomas PPA delivers in minutes, without adding complexity to your process.

Here’s how it works:

  • Choose your assessment. Use PPA alone, or combined with Aptitude, Personality, or Emotional Intelligence assessments for a fuller picture.
  • Invite candidates directly from Thomas Assess or through your ATS integration.
  • Candidates complete it in 8 minutes, fully online, on any device, no installs needed.
  • Review instant, visual results that are clear enough for any manager to act on.

With clear, actionable data, your teams can hire smarter, onboard faster, and reduce friction across roles and functions.

Assessments are just the start

PPA doesn't stop at hiring. The insights carry through the entire employee lifecycle, from onboarding to development to succession planning.

With Thomas, you can connect recruitment data through to development and retention, which is something point solutions simply can't offer.

Use the insights to:

  • Personalise onboarding around how each person communicates and learns best
  • Reduce early attrition by aligning role expectations to behavioural strengths from day one
  • Support internal mobility by identifying leadership potential that doesn't show up on a CV
  • Compare candidates consistently against role profiles and your own high-performance benchmarks
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Built on science. Easy to use.

 

Thomas assessments are BPS-registered, ISO-certified, and independently validated for reliability and fairness. Our in-house psychologists work continuously on psychometric research, including in collaboration with the Psychometrics Centre at Cambridge University.


You get the rigour of validated science in a format anyone on your team can use.

Frequently asked questions

 

Just 8 minutes. It's fully online, browser-based, and works on any device.

Thomas uses the DISC model, one of the most trusted psychometric frameworks for understanding workplace behaviour. Unlike simpler colour-box tools, PPA gives you a nuanced, multi-dimensional view of how someone actually behaves at work, not a label.

Yes. You can combine behavioural insights with Aptitude, Personality, Emotional Intelligence, or 360-degree feedback assessments, all in one platform. We'll be on hand to help you build the right combination for your needs.

Yes. Every report is visual, manager-friendly, and comes with clear, practical guidance, so no specialist is required to interpret or apply the data.

Absolutely. Thomas assessments are BPS-registered, ISO-certified, and independently validated for reliability and fairness.

Thomas is one of the few providers that connects behavioural data across the full employee lifecycle, from recruitment through onboarding, development, and succession. And unlike providers that require formal accreditation to interpret results, Thomas is built to be used directly by hiring managers and HR teams, without specialist support.

Start understanding behaviour beyond the CV

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