Wow!! Lots of great feedback and comments about the new system. Thanks for that. I had a bunch of questions too, which I hope to answer in this post. If you have any more please just add them to the comments below or send me an email.

How to spend your £200

Your £200 is already in your account – yay! – but you must allocate your £200 to reports by 1st May or you’ll lose it!

Not sure how to “spend” your credits? Watch this short video guide – remember, you only have until May 1st!

Spending your £200 from Julie Anderson on Vimeo.

Watch this video to see how to add candidates and view their reports:

Where to send candidates from Julie Anderson on Vimeo.

When does the unlimited access run till?

A few people asked this and it’s a good question. You will have unlimited reports up until 1st January 2009, that’s eight months worth. Worry not I will be much more specific on the details next week. Please keep checking the emails.

Where’s my logo gone?

If your logo has disappeared, you can easily add it again by clicking on “Add your logo” in your Control Room. Here you can browse your computer and upload your logo to the system.

New System. It’s all different

You may have kept old emails explaining how to use PeopleMaps. Please note that this is a brand new system and works quite differently from the old system. It’s only just out the box a week or so. Have a play with it, click about and see what you find. You won’t break it. If you visit the Help pages, you will also find some videos which act as a quick guide to the new system – take a look!

Multiple users

You may now create several users for your account, each with their own username and password. It saves you having to tell other people your username and password and gives you more accountability control.

Polish Questionnaire

If you are processing Polish or Slovak-speaking applicants then you will want to know about our new questionnaires. See our blog post for details.

Credits held previously

If you already had money in your account, it will still be there (+£200!). To make it easy for you to keep track, every page in the Control Room specifies how many reports you already hold in stock, as well as your account balance. Don’t worry if your “Account balance” is zero – it means you have already bought reports – check your “Reports in stock” figure. You can find a detailed breakdown of the reports you own (Reports in stock) in the “Bulk buy for discount” page. You can allocate these reports to your candidates/employees by selecting “View and buy reports”.

Is PeopleMaps the same psychology as Myers Briggs?

PeopleMaps psychology is based on the work of CJ Jung – as is Myers Briggs. You can read more about the psychology part and there are also a number of articles about Myers Briggs on the site too.

There are some major differences between PeopleMaps and MBTI – most notably the questionnaire (PeopleMaps was designed specifically and exclusively for the web) , the report output (written in plain English – no training required) and the service (online, pay as you go). You can also compare PeopleMaps with other profilers.

The peopleMaps Compass provides a visual illustration of a personality’s behaviour in particular circumstances. We have created it to show you at a glance the likely behaviour of the person whose report you are reading. Not all of the personality topics have an associated Compass yet, but we’re adding new ones all the time.

The compass must always be used in conjunction with the associated text, so the labels you need to look out for are;

• the green label underneath the star which in this case is “DELEGATE” – this label tells you what the compass is measuring.
• the pink labels to the extreme left and right of the compass which in this case are “Relinquish” and “Interfere“. These labels indicate extreme reactions of the personality type we are reporting on.
• the “OPTIMUM” vertical centre line indicates when someone is naturally good at something; in this case ‘Delegating’.

The following is an example of “Delegate“. It essentially illustrates an individual’s natural ability at delegating.

How to read the Compass

The nearer you are to the “Optimum” central line the better. This particular Compass reading represents someone who naturally is a good delegator – where the green “at best” arrow is near the “Optimum” central line.

However the world doesn’t simply divide into good delegators and bad delegators – and the Compass reveals even more detail. You can be a poor natural delegator because you ‘relinquish’ tasks or because you ‘interfere’ too much. It is important to understand which side of the “Optimum” line an individual is located. Remember, the closer the green “at best” arrow is – and that can be either on the Western or Eastern half of the Compass – to the “Optimum“, the better.

At worst, at best

By using the two arrows PeopleMaps addresses the mobility of an individual’s personality. This mobility is represented by the distance between the green “at best” arrow and the red “at worst” arrow.

In this example the arrows are pretty close – the individual tends to interfere a little on bad days but is generally consistent in how they go about delegating. Had the arrows been further apart then the mobility would be high, indicating that some days they would be very good at delegating and some days far too interfering. This means their behaviour would be less predictable.

People’s behaviour does vary day to day, and it is useful to know the extent to which it varies on each aspect of personality, in this case “Delegate“.

Take a look at this quick video guide to further clarify:

The PeopleMaps Compass from Dream Job on Vimeo.