The Highlands Ability Battery (HAB) is a human assessment tool that objectively measures your natural abilities by asking you to perform specific tasks or exercises.
What Makes the HAB Assessment Unique?
The HAB is unique in that it measures your abilities based on performance rather than perception. Exercises such as recreating designs from memory, manipulating blocks in space, and putting images in logical sequence are some of the virtual tasks you are asked to perform within a set amount of time. Results based on timed performance are far more reliable than results based on self-perception or personal opinion.
The HAB consists of 19 virtual worksamples that are taken online over an estimated three hours in total. You do not have to take the whole Battery at once, but can do each worksample individually or break them up into smaller groups.
The HAB measures basic human abilities such as:
- Visual speed and accuracy;
- ability to work with numbers and designs;
- inductive reasoning;
- analytical reasoning;
- idea flow;
- verbal aptitude;
- structural visualization;
- musical aptitude;
- and several applications of memory.
How Are My Results Revealed?
After you complete all 19 work samples, you will receive customized reports that provide insights into how you think, what makes you tick, and where you will thrive.
Your results are revealed in an individual analyses report of more than 30+ pages.
The report begins with your personal profile, showing the score achieved for each ability and its significance as it relates to your personality, your motivation, how you learn, communicate, solve problems, and make decisions.
HAB reports also include an interactive career supplement that combines your personal style with what motivates you to reveal personal patterns of abilities.
Debrief with a Highlands Consultant
To thoroughly understand and absorb the knowledge gained from the results of the assessment and highly detailed reports, you will meet for about 2 hours with a career professional. Your debrief (or feedback) is conducted by a Highlands Certified Consultant who has completed an extensive training program to interpret your HAB results, guide you through your reports, and help identify potential careers, school environments, and work roles that would be a good fit given your natural abilities. He or she will also help you understand how you can best integrate those abilities into your daily life. This in-depth and personalized review sets the HAB apart from all other assessments you read more about.
The HAB is in-depth and highly personalized; anyone who invests in the process will reap a lifetime of practical and applicable self-knowledge.
Understanding Your Abilities
Your HCC will show you how the pieces of your various natural abilities fit together to provide meaning for occupational and academic application, with implications for your life and career.
Ability Blends and Patterns of Abilities
Your HCC will also walk you through the proprietary Ability Blends and Ability Patterns. Based on extensive research, these combinations of abilities are presented in terms of how they match up with careers, occupations, and jobs that provide an outlet for the use of those abilities.
Understand the Significance of Your Ability Profile
There are three categories that make up your ability profile: Personal Style, Driving Abilities, and Specialized Abilities. During the debrief, your HCC will explain the significance of each category and provide you with practical examples of how your abilities in each area are most likely to manifest.
Guidance to Reach Your Objectives
The results of the HAB are not meant to pin you down and confine you to one or two different careers. Rather, the results will open your eyes to the many different facets of your natural abilities and how those can play out in a variety of situations. Unlike some career assessments that try to tell you exactly what career to pursue, the HAB provides you with a nuanced and in-depth toolkit that you can apply to your career decisions for the rest of your life.
The two-hour debrief session with an HCC serves to sharpen those tools, enriching your understanding of the results and empowering you to apply that knowledge for years ahead. You’ll understand how to evaluate different work roles and environments with confidence, knowing that you can discern what situations play to your strengths from those that will be more challenging.
Create Your Personal Strengths Profile
One of the most challenging aspects of a job search is knowing how to clearly and succinctly pitch your strengths, skills, and experience to potential employers. The same is true for students who are applying to colleges or trying to land an internship. Your HCC will help you process your results in such a way that gives you the language you need to represent yourself on paper and in interviews. Plus, you have the added confidence of knowing that the strengths you’re presenting aren’t a result of self-diagnosis or based on the opinion of a friend or relative! The HAB results are unbiased, objective, and accurate.
For a comprehensive, in-depth, and highly personalized program that will help you navigate your career life with clarity, there’s no substitute for the HAB and a debrief session with Diana Ritchie.
Testimonial
“This test was different to any I’d done before. It tested a variety of different skills and abilities instead of just asking “what I like to do in my free time”. The format and instructions for each question made me feel comfortable with answering as it was made very clear. I somewhat enjoyed taking the test even though it was difficult. The wide range of tests incorporated an array of different exercises and challenges that tested some things I didn’t know were actual skills. It also showed me possible learning styles that might suit me and the way I work.
The exercises that involved sound and tones were unique and something I’ve never had to do before.
Where I’ve struggled with taking some previous tests is when it asks about what careers I might like doing. Seeing as I have no idea what I want to do (hence Im taking a careers test) I usually choose ‘indifferent’. But what was great about the HAB test is that instead of asking what I liked to do, it tested my abilities and found what my skills were. It generated career fields that I would do well in. Overall, I thought the test was great, eye-opening experience.”
– Grade 11 student