The candidate receives a detailed yet accessible feedback report that focuses on their personality traits and cognitive abilities, offering meaningful insights into their strengths, areas for growth, and career development. The report highlights how candidates can improve the skills they were assessed on and provides career suggestions based on their personality profile and the Holland Code Theory (RIASEC).

Importantly, we do not disclose raw scores. This is because there are no inherently “good” or “bad” scores—only profiles that align differently depending on the role. Sharing scores without context can be misleading or discouraging, especially since results may vary depending on the specific job profile used for comparison. Instead, we focus on empowering candidates by fostering a mindset of reskilling and upskilling.

The feedback report is designed to promote self-awareness and growth, helping candidates understand:

Who they are and what makes them unique
Their natural strengths and workplace challenges
Potential career paths aligned with their traits
How they can develop further to thrive in different roles

This approach supports a positive candidate experience and encourages continuous development, regardless of the outcome of a specific hiring process.

Let’s drill down to each section of the report:

Assessment Insights*	Improvement tips for every skill assessment the candidate completed for that job. (If Skills Assessments feature is enabled)*
Profile fit insights: Personality section as per the Five-Factor Model, or “The Big Five”. It was developed by several independent researchers who discovered and defined five broad categories of personality traits that may account for individual differences. These traits are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism (OCEAN). This model is considered remarkably universal and is one of the most commonly used models of personality testing in academic psychology, recruitment, and personal development. Thinking style as per the candidate’s performance in each cognitive ability.
Career Insights	Displays the candidate’s most prominent 2-letter Holland Code combination, along with key strengths and challenges in the workplace, and includes a direct link to the O*NET database for further career exploration. Our classification combines Holland’s six interest types (RIASEC) with Cattell’s 16PF personality traits to deliver meaningful career and job fit insights. Dr. John Holland’s theory connects personality with career satisfaction by identifying how individuals tend to thrive in work environments that align with their dominant personality traits. His widely validated model groups personality types into broad categories and demonstrates that when there’s a strong match between a person's traits and the nature of their work, engagement and performance significantly improve. Our psychometric assessment is designed to be broadly applicable across industries, offering actionable insights for a wide range of candidates.

Tips and Tricks for the Candidate Feedback Report

💡The sections of the Candidate Feedback Report are configurable. Simply go to Settings > Assessment Settings, navigate to the Emails & Templates section and select the template “Candidate results page”. Select the language you want this change to come into effect in.

And then you can tick/untick each one of the sections. By default, all sections are enabled.

The Holland Theory

According to this theory, all individuals, their interests, and work environments can be classified into six types: Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E), and Conventional (C). All individuals have the tendency to choose and search for environments that fit their interests and personality, and that they would evade or leave environments that do not or just barely fit their interests.

The above highlights the importance of the fit and congruence between the personality and the environment, indicating that the fit between the personality and the surrounding environment is so crucial that it affects and defines individuals’ behavior and well-being. Hence, the better the fit between the individual and the environment, the better the outcome in job performance, job retention, job satisfaction, and social behavior.

According to Holland, each individual may have an interest in all the aforementioned six types to some degree, thus creating a specific profile when combined. Based on that assumption, Bryq has created 15 Bryq profiles, whereas each of them combines 2 Holland Types. The purpose of those 15 profiles is to be presented to the candidates following their participation in the Bryq assessment, in order to receive an overall idea of their results.

The 15 Bryq profiles with their descriptions are the following:

Realistic - Investigative

These individuals prefer working with their hands and/or objects and they are interested in data, science, and research. Those individuals tend to be practical, distant, calm, self-reliant, and confident. They enjoy challenging tasks that require motor coordination, solving problems, and investigation.

Typical occupations include: machinist, robotics engineer, chemist, veterinarian, surgeon, and electrician.

Realistic - Artistic

These individuals prefer working with their hands and/or objects and they are creative and interested in beauty, music, and performing arts. Those individuals tend to be distant, adventurous, imaginative, self-reliant, and assertive. They are not bothered by ambiguity, are open to new ideas, and enjoy working with objects rather than people.

Typical occupations include: fashion designer, graphic designer, sound engineer, chef, museum conservator, photographer.

Realistic - Social

These individuals prefer working with their hands and/or objects and they are interested in supporting, helping, and caring for others. Those individuals tend to be open to change, calm, and genuine. They are characterized by an interest in informing and development and they enjoy seeing the impact of their work on others.

Typical occupations include: kinesiologist, nurse, dentist, firefighter, physical therapist, and mixologist.

Realistic - Enterprising

These individuals prefer working with their hands, and they enjoy influencing people. Those individuals tend to be energetic, outgoing, objective, dominant, and confident. They are characterized by an interest in occupations that involve leading others, they are good talkers, and they value status and reputation.

Typical occupations include: athlete, fashion designer, personal trainer, online merchant, sales engineer, pilot.

Realistic - Conventional

These individuals prefer working with their hands and/or objects, data and they enjoy following the rules and regulations. Those individuals tend to be rule-conscious, objective, practical and organized. They are characterized by being methodical and by an interest inaccuracy.

Typical occupations include: carpenter, electrician, chemist, mechanical engineer, civil engineer, and web developer.

Investigative - Artistic

These individuals prefer working with ideas and data and enjoy the investigation of natural phenomena, science, and self-expression. Those individuals tend to be creative, abstract, imaginative, self-reliant and they are interested in solving problems and science. They are characterized by self-expression, originality, openness to change and they enjoy challenging tasks and conceptual thinking.

Typical occupations include: journalist, astronomer, therapist, poet, psychiatrist, and biochemist

Investigative - Social

These individuals prefer working with people and data and they are interested in supporting, helping and caring for others. Those individuals tend to be calm, warm, patient, open to change, and sensitive. They are interested in science and people and they are not bothered by repetitive tasks.

Typical occupations include: nurse, audiologist, teacher, counselor, epidemiologist, and psychologist.

Investigative - Enterprising

These individuals prefer working with data, and they enjoy influencing people. Those individuals tend to be objective, confident, perfectionists, dominant, and socially bold. They are good talkers and are characterized by being interested in research, decision making, and achieving organizational goals.

Typical occupations include: film editor, lawyer, paralegal, sales engineer, market research analyst, and web-admin.

Investigative - Conventional

These individuals prefer working with data, files, documents and they enjoy rules and regulations. Those individuals tend to be objective, organized, and rule-conscious and enjoy challenging tasks, clear instructions and they dislike ambiguity.

Typical occupations include: customer support specialist, web developer, chemist, software developer, financial analyst, and statistician.

Artistic - Social

These individuals prefer working with people and ideas and they enjoy beauty, music, and performing arts. Those individuals tend to be open to change, outgoing, emotionally stable, confident, adventurous, and imaginative. They are characterized by an interest in supporting, helping, and caring for others.

Typical occupations include: psychiatrist, therapist, teacher, business trainer, producer/director, and sociologist.

Artistic - Enterprising

These individuals prefer working with ideas, people and numbers. Those individuals tend to be dominant, confident, adventurous, imaginative, emotionally stable, and experimental. They are characterized by being good talkers, persuading others, and being open to new ideas.

Typical occupations include: producer, fashion designer, graphic designer, journalist, video game designer, and advertiser.

Artistic - Conventional

These individuals prefer working with ideas, data, and enjoy rules and regulations. Those individuals tend to be practical, distant, self-reliant, rule-conscious, and abstract. They are characterized by an interest in beauty, music, and they are creative.

Typical occupations include advertiser, proofreader, media director, technical writer, L&D specialist, and fundraisers.

Social - Enterprising

These individuals prefer working with people, and they enjoy supporting, persuading, helping, and leading others. Those individuals tend to be outgoing, open to change, warm, and confident. They are characterized by being good talkers and by an interest in informing.

Typical occupations include financial planner, judge, PR specialist, legislator, human resources, and sales.

Social - Conventional

These individuals prefer working with data, people and enjoy rules and regulations. Those individuals tend to be organized, practical, organized, calm, and outgoing. They prefer clear instructions, structured tasks and are characterized by an interest in informing and development.

Typical occupations include sales agent, financial manager, customer service representative, HR manager, nurse, and pharmacist.

Enterprising - Conventional

These individuals prefer working with people, numbers and enjoy rules and regulations. Those individuals are typically good talkers, powerful, organized, confident, objective, practical and outgoing. They enjoy tasks where they can influence or lead other people, dislike unstructured tasks, ambiguity, and value reputation, status, and money.

Typical occupations include accountant, chief executives, fund manager, treasurers, intelligence analyst, marketing manager.