Psychometric assessment results

Detects psychometric, personality, aptitude and cognitive-ability assessment results for an identified candidate or employee: a named candidate/applicant with scores, percentiles, sten values, trait ratings or a suitability recommendation.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the primary phrases also appear in policies, guidance, blank forms and news, so enforce tiers require a populated field with a non-placeholder value and 85 adds a record-specific populated detail plus independent corroboration. Person and record values are customer-defined, so the field regexes use labelled loose values with a placeholder guard. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy.
Detection quality: Topic false positive
Jurisdictions: global
Regulations: Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld), Public Sector Act 2022 (Qld), GDPR
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701
Data categories: pii, employment
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:psychometric\s+(?:assessments?|tests?|testing|reports?|results?|profiles?)|personality\s+(?:profile|assessment|questionnaire|inventory)|cognitive\s+ability\s+(?:tests?|assessments?)|aptitude\s+tests?|psychological\s+assessments?|(?:verbal|numerical|abstract|inductive|deductive)\s+reasoning\s+tests?|situational\s+judg(?:e)?ment\s+tests?|OPQ32|Hogan\s+(?:Personality\s+Inventory|Development\s+Survey))\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

percentile, norm group, assessor, psychologist, selection panel, shortlisting, feedback report, recruitment, hiring manager, development plan

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Psychometric assessment report Candidate name: Avery Teston Role: Senior Project Officer Numerical reasoning: 78th percentile Verbal reasoning: 64th percentile Conscientiousness: Sten 7 Recommendation: Suitable Report prepared for the selection panel. — 85: psychometric report with candidate, reasoning percentiles, trait sten and recommendation
Personality assessment results - Hogan Personality Inventory Applicant ID: CAND-20931 Adjustment: 32 percentile Ambition: 81 percentile Assessor: Dr Jordan Staffson, registered psychologist — 85: personality inventory results with applicant ID, percentiles and assessor
Cognitive ability test - candidate: Morgan Teston. Results will be shared with the hiring manager after the panel meets. — 75: cognitive ability test naming the candidate, no scores
psychometric assessment — 65: bare phrase only - discovery tier

Should not match

Our psychometric assessments measure numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning and personality so you can hire with confidence. Book a demo of the aptitude test platform. — Vendor marketing (no person) - must stay at or below 65
Psychometric assessment report Candidate name: __________ Numerical reasoning: ____ percentile Recommendation: __________ — Blank report template - must stay at or below 65
Candidates who completed a psychometric test scored in the 70th percentile on average, the study found, according to a media release. — News / research summary - must stay at or below 65
Free practice aptitude test: question 1 asks how far a train travels in 3 hours at 80 km/h. Use these sample questions to prepare. — Practice test guidance - must stay at or below 65
unrelated generic text without domain phrases — No relevant topic phrases present

Known false positives

Policies, procedures, regulator guidance, fact sheets and training material that name the record type. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require populated fields; guidance has labels without values, and policy/guidance/training/media-release framing is excluded by the NOT-group.
Blank forms, templates and system configuration screens. Mitigation: Blank lines, bracket placeholders, XXX and n/a/tbc values are rejected by the placeholder guard; template/fixture words are excluded by template-exclusion.
Vendor marketing, practice tests and research articles that quote percentiles. Mitigation: No populated candidate field; vendor/practice framing (book a demo, free practice, sample questions) is excluded.
Results that identify the candidate only in free text (no field label) fall to 65. Mitigation: Accepted precision trade-off; extend the person-field regex with the customer candidate-ID format to recover recall.