Employment Personality Test

Understand your drive to stay busy versus slow down in 4 minutes. Get a clear read on burnout risk or low momentum to guide coaching, hiring, and workload tweaks.

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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Verified by Daniel Hall

Psychologist with 25 years of experience

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4/20

Total Score (TS)

Measures overall busyness and engagement, ranging from idleness to pronounced workaholic tendencies.

Idle-leaning

Industrious

Workaholic-leaning

0 – 10: Idle-leaning | 11 – 15: Industrious | 16 – 20: Workaholic-leaning

A score of 4 falls in the Idle-leaning range, suggesting a lower tendency toward sustained work engagement and a greater preference for rest or delaying tasks.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Burnout-prone high achievers

41%OF USERS

People who feel they’re always “on” take it to check whether their drive has crossed into unhealthy overwork and where to set boundaries.

Stuck procrastinators

34%OF USERS

People who struggle to start or finish tasks use it to see if low engagement is holding them back and what kind of structure might help.

Coaches and hiring teams

25%OF USERS

Professionals working with clients or candidates take it to quickly gauge work engagement and discuss workload fit, motivation, and risk of burnout.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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13.7

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11 — 16.3

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

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These are 3 of the 20 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

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Employment Personality Test - Symptoms and Signs

business

workaholism

This brief self-report measure is used to characterize patterns of work engagement and activity level in daily functioning. Occupational Status provides a snapshot of an individual’s typical orientation toward being busy, initiating tasks, and managing time and responsibilities.

The instrument includes 20 items and typically takes about 4 minutes to complete. Items ask respondents to endorse statements reflecting attitudes toward work, productivity, and preferred pace of activity; results are commonly used to inform discussions of workload balance, overextension risk, and relative passivity. Occupational Status is attributed to Donald E. Super and John L. Holland.

Author: Donald E. Super, John L. Holland

Literature: Campion, M. A., Fink, A. A., Ruggeberg, B. J., Carr, L., Phillips, G. M., & Odman, R. B. Doing competencies well: Best practices in competency modeling. Personnel Psychology. 2011.; Gatewood, R. D., Feild, H. S., & Barrick, M. Human resource selection. Cengage Learning. 2015.