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ISSAK Work Survey

ISSAK Work Survey is a comprehensive occupational and professional profiling tool. Based on content that is rich in specificity, it leverages items measuring interests, styles, skills, abilities and knowledge areas to predict focus areas at work.

ISSAK Work Survey reports 9 broad competency focus areas and 26 contextual or granular focus areas. These describe various types of strengths at work. ISSAK may be used for understanding work personality, understanding occupational motivation and predicting workplace competencies. ISSAK is designed for predicting workplace outcomes and therefore makes a great tool for making talent decisions in organizations.

Features

Comprehensive and Scientific

Reflects Reality of Work

Engagement meets Performance

Comprehensive and Scientific

ISSAK is comprehensive in its content. It's items have been carefully selected based on research spanning 70,000 job descriptions in identifying various components of work that indicate fitment with roles. ISSAK content is also mapped to the O*NET framework making it more scientific, comprehensive and useful in various occupational contexts. ISSAK content spans interests, styles, skills, activities and knowledge areas, all of them used to predict both satisfaction and performance at work.

ISSAK Fact Sheet

Reflects Reality of Work

ISSAKs focus areas are 9 meta themes that most occupations center around reflecting the reality of occupations. Great content coverage has led the ISSAK to be more granular with over 132 different scales at the most granular level. These are norm referenced and based on out AI fueled research on what occupational content best works together in jobs and roles. Along with the individual centric scales of motivation and personality, focus areas offer the most complete view of individual's match with occupational requirements.

ISSAK Fact Sheet

Engagement meets Performance

ISSAK covers all content areas - work motivation, personality as well as specific work activities. This has led ISSAK to be holistic in its ability to offer occupational fit insights in various talent processes. Focus Areas predict job performance and work satisfaction both by matching salient features of individual psyche to work related requirements. Focus areas predict what central themes when present in roles can help individuals achieve both performance as well satisfaction.

ISSAK Fact Sheet

More Information About ISSAK Work Survey

What is ISSAK Work Survey?

ISSAK Work Survey is a 59 item (forced choice) survey designed to measure work motivation, work personality as well as match with occupational focus areas. Each forced choice item set gives respondents 6 to 8 statements to choose from. Patterns in these choices predicts different motivations, styles as well as focus areas.

What does ISSAK measure?

ISSAK Work Survey measures over 132 different constructs across interests, styles, skills, activities and knowledge areas. These largely converge into 12 motivation scales, 16 personality scales and 26 focus areas. These in turn give us insights into leads to performance and work satisfaction for individuals.

What does ISSAK report?

ISSAK offers a comprehensive Profile Report. It offers all measures 63 in total.

Note: ISSAK can provide 132 different granular measures. These are only available for customized requirements for large volume needs. Contact us to know more.

Is a certification necessary?

ISSAK Work Survey may only be used by trained individuals. While the reports are fairly simple to understand, incorrect use may be both illegal and have serious negative consequences.

Can ISSAK be used for screening in recruitment?

Yes, most certainly. ISSAK Work Survey is designed to provide work-individual match insights which can be used in recruitment. Please note that given the comprehensiveness of the instrument, customization is recommended to bring the questionnaire length down. ISSAK Work Survey can most certainly be used to inform interviews for high stake roles.

Can ISSAK be used for coaching?

Yes, given that ISSAK offers a comprehensive framework, any workplace coaching, leadership development and executive development can strongly benefit from ISSAK.

How reliable and valid is ISSAK?

ISSAK is tested for reliability through multiple studies including, parallel form reliability, parallel scoring reliability, correlations with other instruments and test-retest reliability studies. Validity has been ascertained by various studies done on multiple job roles to verify ISSAK predictions, factor analytic studies to clarify the structure of scales and thorough mapping with other frameworks like ONET to assure content validity. You may find documentation of this in the ISSAK Guidebook.