Spark assessment

See how your people are wired to work.

Spark is ProSpark’s talent assessment — one sitting that maps a person’s work archetype, their operating style, and their cognitive skills. Use it to hire with more signal, place people in the right seat, and understand the team you already have.

The instrument

Eight archetypes. Five operating styles.

Everyone who takes it lands on a work archetype — Mainstay, Conductor, Ambassador, Navigator, Torch, Engine, Pathfinder, or Disruptor — a plain-English read of how they naturally show up at work, never a grade.

Underneath the archetype sit five operating-style dimensions, each scored twice: how a person is wired by default, and how they’re actually workingin their current role. A gap between the two shows where someone is stretching to meet the job’s demands.

TempoThe speed and pace at which you naturally work
StructureHow much you rely on plans, systems, and process
InitiativeYour tendency to start things without being prompted
FocusHow deeply and single-mindedly you engage with your work
CollaborationHow much you work with and through other people
The catalog

Eight families and four variants combine into the archetype a person actually gets — read live from the catalog, so renaming one updates every result with it.

The Spark archetype catalog: eight families and four variants, with the live combination matrix they produce
Taking it

Short enough that people actually finish it.

Whoever is taking it opens one link on a phone or a laptop — no account, no download. It moves through short sections: quick “which sounds more like you?” choices, real work scenes drawn from agency life, and timed cognitive sections built around short reading passages. Each section explains itself before it starts, so nobody is guessing at what is being asked.

One linkOpen on any device — no account, no app
SectionedShort parts with a clear intro before each one
Timed where it mattersCognitive sections run on a timer; the rest at your own pace
Results

Full results as a PDF — the moment they finish.

Whoever takes it gets their full results as a PDF the moment they finish — their archetype, their wired-vs-working operating-style profile, and a plain-English guide to what it all means, straight to their inbox. No waiting on an admin, no logging back in. Candidates leave the process with something useful either way, which is a large part of why they complete it.

InstantThe PDF is emailed automatically on completion
CompleteArchetype, operating styles, and the plain-English guide
Theirs to keepA durable document the person can save and share
The report

One document per person: the archetype up top, the five operating-style dimensions scored wired and working, and the guide that explains every term.

What you get back

A read on the person, not a score to rank them by.

A finished profile is four things: the archetype, the operating-style dimensions behind it, how that shape fits the roles you hire for, and a written summary a manager can actually act on.

ArchetypeA family and a variant — how this person shows up at work
Wired vs workingEach dimension scored twice, so a gap shows where someone is stretching for the job
Role fitHow the shape lines up against the roles you’re filling
Coaching summaryWritten guidance on working with this person — and on managing them
Taking the profile

Your team takes it from their profile. Candidates take it as they apply.

For the people already on your team, Spark sits in their own ProSpark profile — they take it once and the result stays with them, ready when you’re planning coaching, moves, or who to put on what.

For hiring, it runs as a step in the process: a candidate completes the profile alongside their application, and the result lands on their record with everything else you have on them — so the read is there before the interview, not after.

Take one yourself first.

Join the waiting list and we’ll start you with your own Spark profile — the fastest way to see what your managers would be reading.

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