Professional Styles (Candidate Report)
The Candidate Report is the self-report half of a Professional Styles assessment: what someone says about their own dominant style, decision-making and communication preferences, ready to be checked against how others actually see them.
Four boxes run start to finish - complete it, read it, debrief it, then set it against the other reports - never stopping at box two.
Reach for this when…
- You're introducing a psychometric to a development conversation and need a self-report anchor first.
- Someone insists they already know their working style and it needs testing, not just asserting.
- A new hire needs a written first-week reference point for how they say they work.
How to run it
- Complete the Professional Styles online assessment.
- Read the Candidate Report: dominant styles, decision-making approach, communication preference.
- Debrief it with a coach before comparing it to anyone else's view.
- Cross-reference against the Expert, Line Manager, and Work Roles reports for the full picture.
A worked example
Situation. Anjali Shrestha joined a logistics company in Kathmandu, Nepal, as the new regional operations manager and wanted a documented starting point before her 90-day review.
Applied. She completed the Candidate Report and debriefed it with her coach, who flagged that she'd rated herself unusually high on pace and structured decision-making for someone six weeks into a new role.
Result. At the 90-day review, she and her manager compared the self-view against actual behaviour and used the honest gaps as the whole agenda, instead of starting from scratch.
The catch
A self-report on its own only tells you how someone sees themselves - used alone, it just confirms their existing self-image. Its real value only appears once it's set against the Expert or Line Manager view; treated as a standalone result, it's closer to a personality quiz than a development tool.
A Candidate Report by itself is a mirror, not a window. Don't stop at the self-view.
Origin: Saville Assessment