Orpheus is a general purpose occupational personality test, suitable for use in a wide range of applications, from selection and recruitment through to promotion and development, providing information in terms of a candidates strengths and weaknesses, as well as preferences and style.

Orpheus is a work-based measure of personality, developed in the Cambridge University by Professor John Rust. It is based on the well-established ‘Big Five’ model, currently recognized as the most stable and well-defined structure of personality.

Specifically, Orpheus provides measures along the following dimensions:

• Fellowship
• Authority
• Conformity
• Emotion
• Detail.

In addition to the ‘Big Five’ scales, Orpheus provides an assessment of individual strengths and preferences along the following dimensions:

• Proficiency
• Work-orientation
• Patience
• Fair-mindedness
• Disclosure
• Loyalty
• Initiative

Orpheus also identifies irregular response patterns and response biases, such as ‘answering in a socially desirable way’ or ‘faking good’, dishonesty, acquiescence (giving agreeable answers to please the assessor), contradiction (providing contradictory answers) .

For further information please visit
http://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/services/psychometric-tests/orpheus
http://www.talentlens.co.uk/select/orpheus