The main reason to take The Highlands Ability Battery is to find out where you have natural ability
Use your understanding of your natural abilities to choose a job in line with what you are naturally good at, rather than struggling with something that doesn’t come easy. Once you get a job in tune with your natural abilities, it’s like cruising up a 4 lane motorway, rather than struggling through a boggy lane.
Individuals use the Highlands Ability Battery as the foundation of making career decisions and organisations use it as part of employee development.
The Highlands Ability Battery (HAB) comprises 19 separate validated objective tests. The HAB isolates natural abilities and analyses combinations of aptitudes in addition to individual aptitudes. It is an objective measure of your relative ability to do specific things from solving problems to remembering what you read. It tells you what you’ll find easy, what will be difficult and is the foundation to effective career choice.
Real career success is rarely down to money and status and much more to do with finding a job which ties in with what you can do easily.
We all have talents and abilities we are born with. These give us a special ability to do things easily and a reason why we can find other things difficult. We develop this ability through heredity and in childhood and our abilities can be measured from age 14.
Because they are hard wired abilities do not change. Practice won’t make them stronger and ignoring them won’t mean we lose them. They differ from skills, which we can develop, but which we can also lose, and interests which can change. However, both skills and interests can enhance our abilities.
We are happiest and most satisfied when we make maximum use of our abilities. An individual may develop the skills to practice law, for example, but if she doesn’t have the inborn talents which make the practice of law easy and satisfying, she will find her work unrewarding (and, even, as in the case of many lawyers, frustrating). When we apply our abilities to our study or work, we do our tasks better.
“The individual, who knows his own aptitudes, and their relative strengths, chooses more intelligently among the world’s host of opportunities.” Johnson O’Connor, 1940 p134