The Quest Profiler®

Deep insights for recruitment, development, and growth.

Understand your people to drive organisational success. The Quest Profiler® is a powerful and versatile psychometric assessment, offering a comprehensive and reliable way to measure key aspects of human behaviour. Gain the data you need for informed decisions in hiring, team development, coaching, and individual growth, ultimately helping you build stronger teams and empower your workforce.

How does a personality assessment work?

Unlike generic personality profiling tools, The Quest Profiler® has been developed with real-world application in mind, helping businesses recruit, develop, and manage talent more effectively and is delivered via The Psychometric Portal®. Whether you're looking to enhance your current psychometric assessment strategy or introduce a personality profiling tool to your organisation for the first time, this psychometric tool provides a flexible, accessible, and cost-effective solution, with no licence fees or long-term contracts (see pricing).

Our psychometric questionnaire test is trusted by many of the UK's largest companies for both recruitment and employee development. This growing adoption has made The Quest Profiler one of the most widely used personality questionnaires in the UK today.

With its strong scientific foundation and scalable format, The Quest Profiler® is a great solution for any organisation seeking accurate, actionable insight through a trusted personality profiling platform.

Why Use Personality Profiling Over Traditional Interviews?

Many organisations still rely on interviews to assess behavioural characteristics, but these are often subjective, inconsistent, and prone to unconscious bias. While interviews can be useful for evaluating communication skills, they struggle to reliably predict other important behavioural traits that affect long-term performance and team dynamics.

The Quest Profiler® bridges this gap with a scientifically validated psychometric assessment that provides objective, data-driven insights into individual behaviour and personality. When combined with our Job Match feature, you can directly compare candidate profiles to role requirements for faster, evidence-based shortlisting.

What is The Quest Profiler®?

The Quest Profiler® is a powerful and sophisticated psychometric assessment specifically designed for work-based personality profiling. As a trait-based instrument, it measures preferred behaviours across a spectrum of fundamental personality characteristics crucial for workplace success, rather than assigning individuals to broad types. This detailed approach provides a nuanced understanding of how a person is likely to approach tasks, interact with colleagues, and respond to workplace demands.

Developed through rigorous research, The Quest Profiler® offers a reliable and comprehensive way to gather objective data on behavioural preferences. It translates complex psychological principles into clear, actionable insights relevant to professional environments. By understanding these underlying traits, organisations can gain a much clearer picture of candidates and employees, forming a solid foundation for informed decision-making in recruitment, selection, team building, coaching, and individual development planning.

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The Quest Profiler® - Reports:

The Quest Profiler® is incredibly easy to use and ideal for assessing both individuals and groups. It's suitable for everything from candidate selection to staff development and team performance analysis.

Each of the following reports is available at three levels: Standard, Full, and Premium. The Premium versions allow for full customisation of development suggestions, meaning you can align them with your internal training programmes and literature.

Selection & Recruitment Report (Original)

Best for: General recruitment, hiring and senior-level development

This report starts with 24 core behavioural traits, presented on a detailed 1-10 'Sten' scale for nuanced interpretation. It's designed to help identify the right candidates during recruitment and can also support executive development.

Available in 6 languages: English, Arabic, Korean, Persian, Russian, and *Vietnamese

*Standard & Full reports only

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Individual Development Report

Best for: Personal development and team building

Built around the internationally recognised 'Big Five' personality model, this report presents results in a more straightforward red/amber/green format. It helps managers understand how individuals behave and grow in workplace environments.

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Team Report

Best for: Team dynamics and synergy analysis

This report evaluates how people interact within teams, highlighting collaboration strengths, potential tension points, and group dynamics. Like the Individual Development version, it also uses the Big Five framework and a colour-coded scale.

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Benefits of The Quest Profiler®

Investing in personality profiling through The Quest Profiler® offers measurable advantages for recruitment, talent development, and overall business performance. Whether you're using it to support hiring decisions or to help employees reach their full potential, this trusted psychometric questionnaire test delivers valuable insight you simply can't get from interviews alone.

Gain Deeper Understanding of Personality

Our psychometric questionnaire gives you a clearer view of how individuals behave, think,feel and perform in different situations—perfect for both recruitment and learning & development.

Identify Strengths and Development Needs

Our personality profiling tool helps organisations identify the key strengths and weaknesses of employees and candidates. This insight enables better hiring decisions, more personalised onboarding, and targeted learning and development plans.

Understand Behaviour in Different Workplace Situations

The Quest Profiler® doesn't just show you who someone is—it shows you how they're likely to respond to real-world workplace scenarios. From change and stress to teamwork and conflict, this personality assessment tool allows you to understand how people will perform under pressure and adapt to different environments.

Improve Workplace Productivity

By using The Quest Profiler® during your recruitment process, you're able to assess not just competence—but also cultural fit, working style, and long-term potential. This leads to smarter hires, lower turnover, and greater alignment between roles and personalities. The result? A more productive, engaged, and cohesive workforce.

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Client Testimonials

Recognised as a leading work-based psychometric tool in the UK, The Quest Profiler® is trusted by a diverse range of organisations - from growing enterprises to established industry leaders - to deliver meaningful behavioural insights. We're proud to support their recruitment and development goals. See what some of our valued clients have to say about their experience:

Wellcome Trust Sanger

The Psychometric Portal is a very good tool to use in recruitment selection and staff development

Wellcome Trust Sanger
Life Health Foods

I was introduced to eras many years ago, and throughout my HR career I have found their services extremely professional , and more importantly, extremely accurate in terms of the candidate profiling outcome. Whether I was using a recruitment or a development service the level of detail available to bolster my decision making was invaluable. I would not hesitate to recommend eras and the team to anyone.

Sue Johns Head of People & Culture Life Health Foods
Adnams Plc

Our relationship with eras spans more than 10 years and the Team there have consistently exceeded our expectations. They have the ability to understand our business drivers and our culture and then identify the resources that will help us meet our goals.

Sadie Lofthouse Head of Human Resources Adnams Plc
Victim Support

Just to say thank you again for sending the reports for me last week; it was really helpful and helped us to keep our recruitment process moving forward.

Ellie Ryder Victim Support
Mzanzi Consulting

Can I also just take this opportunity to thank you both for incredible customer service. This will be one of the main reasons I continue to use eras. Quick turnaround and prompt response are greatly appreciated!

Jessica Pinnock Mzanzi Consulting
Edenred

eras customer service is one of the best I have seen.

Edenred
Tulip Ltd

The Quest Profiler® is the most versatile personality instrument I have ever used. It does everything from generating interview questions to offering advice for future development. Whatever my needs are, it meets them in full.

Alison Nash Tulip Ltd
Bourn Hall

My eras contact always replies to her emails extremely promptly and makes me feel nothing is too much trouble for her. This level of customer service is quite rare which is why it stands out and I wanted to give credit and praise where it is due.

Bourn Hall
Reality HR

eras are a real pleasure to work with. As well as great customer support, they always go the extra mile and are very responsive to our needs. The Psychometric Portal® is extremely user friendly as well as completely customisable with our own branding.

Reality HR
Insight-Out

Your team are excellent at patiently dealing with my queries.

Jennifer Maddox Insight-Out

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Quest personality assessment? The Quest Profiler® is a trusted personality assessment tool used worldwide. It evaluates a wide range of traits and work-related styles to support better recruitment and employee development decisions.
What are the three different Quest Profiler® Reports? The three reports of the Quest Profiler® personality assessment are the Selection & Recruitment Report, the Individual Development Report and the Team Report. Each of these comes in three different levels: Standard, Full, and Premium. These reports are all highly effective and used in big businesses all across the UK and worldwide.
What languages is The Quest Profiler® available in?

The questionnaire is available in 18 languages including English, Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Russian, Sinhala, Spanish, Tamil, and Vietnamese.

The Selection & Recruitment report is available in English, Arabic, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Vietnamese (Standard & Full reports only).

The Individual Development and Team Reports are only available in English.

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