[wjossey]

I cofounded a company last year, and our focus is on facilitating 360 reviews / annual reviews for companies. The format of our assessments are fairly “psychometric”, but not because we use it to profile someone, but because it helps facilitate written and verbal feedback from your peers and manager. The excerpts you highlighted match our findings, and is a big reason why we run workshops as a part of our process (so we can explain how the information is used).

This is the same way I approached technical interviews when I was doing a lot of hiring. I didn’t usually care a lot about how someone answered a question, but rather how they reasoned about that answer.

[vfulco2]

Although not in the same "domain", I have had good results using viainstitute.org's character strengths tests to better understand my professional and academic clients before creating/editing their resumes, linkedin profiles and interview coaching. Its been around awhile and focuses on what people should do more of. YMMV.