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Profile XT

Helping you identify, select, coach and reduce employee turnover

What it Measures

Pricing and Administration

For information on pricing, or ordering assessments please contact the Knowledge Centre at 1-888-267-2772 or email AskSRC@cpsa.com.

Assessments available in English and French.

Profile XT is administered over the Internet and takes about 60 minutes to complete. Results are emailed to you within minutes.

The Profile XT is an online assessment tool that measures the job-related qualities that make a person productive.

  • Thinking-style and Reasoning
  • Behavioural Traits
  • Occupational Interests

CPSA Sales Benchmarks

CPSA has created benchmarks for selected sales and management positions.


Customized Benchmarks

CPSA can develop customized Job Match patterns or benchmarks based on your top performers that allow you to compare a candidate's attributes to your most successful and productive performers. These benchmarks can tell you how candidates are like or different from your top performers. Read more


Report Outputs

The Profile XT can produce several types of reports:

  • Individual Report - A guide for self-understanding.
  • Sales Placement Report – Predicts a candidate’s potential in a given sales position and written using language that speaks directly to a sales-minded decision-makers.
  • Placement Report – Selecting the right people through Job Match.
  • Succession Planning Report – Compares a person to all of the jobs in your company and indicates those where they have a good job match.
  • Multi-Job Match Report – Useful for succession planning and reassigning employees to new positions
  • Sales Management Coaching Report – Aimed at sales managers who need to train, coach and develop new or existing salespeople.
  • Coaching Report – An excellent training and development tool for coaching new hires or existing employees.
  • Job Profile Summary Report – Used with job descriptions to more accurately define job requirements and refine a company’s approach to advertising positions.
  • Graph Report – For visual analysis of Job Match.

Case Studies

ProfileXT Benchmarks Sales Success in National Sales Organization

Advertising Sales Agency Links Sales Productivity to Recruitment Process

International Pharmaceutical Company Refines Hiring Criteria Based on Performance and Competencies using ProfileXT

Travel Agency Improves Productivity and Increases Revenues per Sales Agent

Luxury Hotel Improves Customer Service and Provide Ongoing Training and Support to Management

Profiles PXT Increases Productivity at Medical Sales Devices Company

"At one point we had a turnover rate of 40 per cent. With the aid of the Profile XT and Step One II assessment, we’ve reduced turnover to 29 per cent."
Michael Teakell, HR Manager, Superior Energy Service

"After going through all the necessary steps involving multiple rounds interviewing candidates in search of a new member for our sales team, one candidate stood out from the rest. I remembered the Profile XT assessment tool from CPSA. The assessment was very thorough and gave some great insight on personality and character traits of our candidate. I was reassured and relieved to see the job match was as strong as we had hoped it would be. The assessment has provided the extra affirmation that we were looking for to move forward."
Maurie Bergstrom, National Sales Manager, Kito Canada Inc.

"We have implemented the Profile assessment in our hiring process for our sales positions and we have found the tool to be very effective. In tracking our hires over the last year when the Profile assessment was used, retention was twice as high over those hires that were made when not using the tool."
Reid M. Christopherson, Manager of Strategic Recruitment, Pella Corporation

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