ACT® WorkKeys Talent Assessment – The Complete Guide [2024]

The ACT WorkKeys Talent assessment measures your behaviors, mindsets, and attitudes in the workplace to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and gauge your success in your future job.

You will be presented with statements regarding personal preferences, tendencies, and characteristics related directly or indirectly to workplace behavior. You will need to indicate how well each statement describes you on a scale of “Strongly Disagree” to “Strongly Agree.”n

You will have 165 items to address in approximately 35 minutes.

This assessment is administrated only by computer.

Below is a series of self-describing statements. Rate the degree to which you identify with each on a six-point scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree".

In this type of personality and behavioral assessment, you should address every statement as authentically and genuinely as possible. However, this is your opportunity to highlight your behaviors and attitudes that best align with the line of work you are aiming for.

As such, in managerial positions, statements such as “I seldom re-think my choices” can look like a good quality, but they may come across as over-confident, so it is better to choose a moderate answer such as “Slightly Agree.”

For retail and customer services positions, a statement like “People who take too long to take action irritate me” can indicate impatience, a quality that is not useful when working with the public; thus, it should be ranked low.