The 2019 Mega List: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Core Values Index Assessment

Updated November 4, 2019

The Core Values Index psychometric assessment has something of value for everyone whether you are an individual or an employer, a young person at the beginning of your career or a seasoned veteran looking forward to retirement.

We have assembled an updated collection of articles from our blog that can inspire you, motivate you, inform you, and empower you. These articles are grouped below into helpful topics like CVI Fundamentals, Hiring and Employment, Workplace Issues, Personal Inspiration, and Productivity. We've even included a section with inspiring Profiles and Interviews.

Enjoy!

CVI Fundamentals

• Myths and Misconceptions About Psychometric Assessments
• Can psychometric assessments be fooled?
• HOWTO: Improve the Job You Have With the CVI
• From Black and White to Technicolor: Before and After the CVI
• The Four Pillars of the Core Values Index Psychometric Assessment
• The Myth of Multitasking and How Your Hardwiring Determines Your Productivity
• Why You Should Upgrade Your Core Values Index Psychometric Assessment
• The Top Three Things You Need to Know About Your Core Values Index Psychometric Profile
• Taming Your Reactions to Stress with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the CVI
• Find out what makes you tick
• What is the connection between psychometric profiles and job satisfaction?
• The Reactions of Four Psychometric Profiles
• The Three Insights Within Your Core Values Index Psychometric Profile
• What are your strengths?
• Can a psychometric assessment help you learn?
• Hiring with the Core Values Index (CVI) Psychometric Assessment
• A Q&A About the Core Values Index Psychometric Assessment
• 6 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Full CVI Report
• Seeing the World Through the Lens of your Core Values Index Profile
• The Score Matters: Get To Know Your Core Values Index Scores
• Understanding the Core Values Index Report
• Six Things You Didn't Know About the Core Values Index
• Do's and Don'ts of the CVI Profiles
• What is the Core Values Index Assessment?
• Video: Introduction to the Core Values Index Assessment
• Understanding Your Conflict Resolution Strategy
• Top 10 Ways to use the CVI at Work, Home and School
• The Life of the Party: Inside the Core Values of Merchants
• Finding the Solution: Inside the Core Values of Innovators
• A Position of Power: Inside the Core Values of Builders
• Knowing the Answer: Inside the Core Values of Bankers

Hiring and Employment

• Hiring Hard or Hiring Smart?
• How Will a Recession Impact Your Employment Strategy?
• The Role of AI and Psychometric Data in Hiring
• Is There a Metric for Hiring Success?
• What Does it Take to Love Your Job?
• What is the connection between psychometric profiles and job satisfaction?
• Trial and error is a terrible way to find your true vocation
• Did You Choose the Right Career?
• Can You Look for Top Performers When Basic Workers are Hard to Find?
• Employee Turnover Causes Client Turnover
• Hiring Without Interviews, 32-Hour Work Weeks, and Looking Forward to Performance Evaluations
• Can You Clone A Top Performer?
• How to Hire a Top Performer
• The Good Hire, the Bad Hire, and What's Your Sign?
• Four Steps to Remove Bias in Hiring
• Video: Challenging Cognitive Biases in Hiring
• One Stop Hiring: Combining Psychometric Assessments and Applicant Tracking Systems
• The Hidden Money Pit of Bad Hires
• The (Mis)Value of Cultural Fit in Hiring
• Should I Stay or Should I go? The Death of High Turnover
• What Do You Do?
• The 8-minute Action That Can Jumpstart Your Career
• Can a Personality Test Land You a Job?
• The Power Duo of the CVI and Top Performer Profiles

Workplace Issues

• Measuring the Effectiveness of HR Initiatives with the Happiness Index
• Pay Equity as an Employer, Pay Equity as an Employee
• Fast Tech in Human Resources
• 10 Things You Need to Know About the Pay Equity Act
• What to do When an Employee Might Leave
• The Value of Diversity Part III: The Method
• The Value of Diversity Part II: The Example
• The Value of Diversity Part I: The Reason
• Dynamic Working: A New View of Flexible Working Policies
• The Alignment of Employment Success
• Creating a Work Culture That Actually Works
• Our Customer's Ultimate Motivation May Surprise You
• Using Psychometric Assessments in a Human Resources Grievance Scenario
• Adopt a Mission That Matters
• Human Resources Needs a Shake-Up
• Performance Reviews Must Die
• Pursuing Ethical Truth
• What Every Employee Fears: Failure to Meet Expectations
• If You Like High Turnover, Stop Reading
• Measure Twice, Cut Once

Personal Inspiration

• From Black and White to Technicolor: Before and After the CVI
• Dungeons & Dragons and Psychometric Assessments?
• Understanding the Teenage Mind with the CVI
• Knock Out Fear with the Core Values Index Psychometric Assessment
• Get lucky: Find your best career path with a psychometric assessment
• I nearly changed my career because of a bad boss
• How Do You Find Happiness?
• Are You Where You Want to Be?
• A New Year, A New You
• The Personality Test That Went to School
• Ikigai: Finding Personal Happiness
• What is Your Four-minute Mile?
• Does Happiness Have a Price?
• Do What You Love (And Get Paid To Do It)
• The Compulsion of an Author

Productivity

• Have you put your job into the friend zone?
• There is a 93% chance you are ____ in your current job
• Wanted: Soul-sucking job with no satisfaction
• Would you trust a surgeon or airline pilot that doesn't love their job?
• Why You Should Get Your Own Psychometric Assessment Before Searching for a Job
• 10 Ways To Know If You're In The Wrong Job
• Feel the Power of a Well-phrased Goal
• The Principle of Fueling Performance
• Can You Hear Me Now? Effective Communication is Crucial to Employee Success
• The Value of Purpose
• The Dark Side of Working Hard
• Layers of Success
• Productivity Comes Second
• For Employee Happiness, Skip the Foosball Table and Espresso Machine
• The Value of Happiness and How to Measure It
• Clarity, Purpose and Feedback: Formula for Performance
• Engagement and Success: A Happy Combination

Profiles and Interviews

• Life Moves Pretty Fast: A CVI Profile of Ferris Bueller
• John Wick: A Psychometric Profile
• Getting to Know Your Authentic Self: A Personal Journey with the CVI
• Kyle Campbell, Owner, Veenhuizen Painting Specialties
• Profile: James Bond
• A River Runs Through the CVI
• Profile: Adam Morris of SalesFirst Recruiting
• Felix and Oscar: The Core Values Odd Couple
• Maya Angelou: The Love of a Merchant
• Interview with Bobbi Thayer, Quality Assurance and Compliance, Steck Medical Group
• The Roadmap of Your Personality's DNA
• Amelia Earhart: A Builder in the Sky