Professional Maturity Profile
Find out, in about 15 minutes, the level you work at in six areas that matter in almost every professional role, which one to develop next, and what the next level looks like. Free, with your results straight away.
Method SCOPE Maturity Model · How it works
Find your level
- About 15 minutes. 30 work situations — choose what you would most likely do.
- No trick answers: every option is something a capable professional might do.
- Free results: your level from Foundation to Strategic, your strongest domain, the one to develop next and what the next level looks like.
Based on your own choices in work situations and how you describe yourself; not an observed or 360° assessment. Not a psychological, clinical or personality test, and not designed for hiring, promotion or disciplinary decisions. A level describes how you approach work situations, not your job title.
What the Professional Maturity Profile measures
The Professional Maturity Profile is a free professional maturity assessment for working people at any stage, from graduates to senior managers. In about 15 minutes you read short work situations and choose what you would most likely do. Your choices show the level you work at in six domains, your overall level, your strongest domain and the one to develop next.
It is built on the SCOPE Maturity Model: six workplace domains and five maturity levels, each level defined by its scope (whose results you look after), time horizon (how far ahead you think) and approach.
| Domain | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Strategy & planning | Linking work to goals, looking ahead, planning, setting priorities, adapting plans |
| Financial sense | Cost and value, budgets, reading numbers, return on effort, spending decisions |
| Decision-making | Framing the problem, using evidence, weighing options and risk, timing, owning the call |
| Stakeholder management | Knowing who matters and why, expectations, managing up, conflicting interests |
| Communication & influence | Clear messages for the audience, persuading without authority, difficult conversations |
| Teamwork & collaboration | Supporting colleagues, sharing work and credit, team conflict, cross-team work |
The five levels
- Level 1 — Foundation. You do your tasks carefully and follow the way things are done. Your next step is taking ownership of your own work.
- Level 2 — Developing. You run your own work reliably. Your next step is looking ahead and bringing others with you.
- Level 3 — Proficient. You adapt to the situation and involve the right people. Your next step is improving how the work is done, not just doing it.
- Level 4 — Advanced. You fix causes, not symptoms, and look after results beyond your own work. Your next step is shaping direction for the wider organisation.
- Level 5 — Strategic. You think in systems and years, and build capability in others. Your job now is to keep growing the people around you.
Every level has value. Many roles are done well at Level 2 or 3, and nobody works at Level 5 in everything. Read how the test works and the research behind it.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Professional Maturity Profile?
A free situational judgement assessment of how you approach typical work situations in six domains: strategy and planning, financial sense, decision-making, stakeholder management, communication and influence, and teamwork. It takes about 15 minutes and places you on a five-level ladder, from Level 1 Foundation to Level 5 Strategic, with the domain to develop next and what the next level looks like.
Does my level depend on my job title?
No. A level describes how you approach work situations, not your job title or seniority. Someone without a management title can work at Level 4; a manager can work at Level 3.
Are there right and wrong answers?
Every answer is something a capable professional might sensibly do. The five answers to each situation differ in scope, time horizon and approach, not in good versus bad, so there is no obvious "right" option to aim for. Answering as you really work gives you the most useful result.
Is it a personality or psychological test?
No. It is not a psychological, clinical or personality test, and it is not an observed or 360° assessment. It is not designed for hiring, promotion or disciplinary decisions.
Why are the situations different each time?
Each attempt draws a different set of situations from a bank of 72 (12 per domain), avoiding the ones you saw in your last two attempts. The answers are shown in a different order every time.
How many times can I take the test?
You can take it twice for free. After that there is a 14-day wait before your next free attempts, because maturity changes slowly. A test you don't finish within 24 hours is discarded and doesn't count.
What happens to my answers?
Your results are private to you. We use your email for your results, your attempts and any certificate, and we use anonymised answers (no name or email) to check and improve the test.
Based on your own choices in work situations and how you describe yourself; not an observed or 360° assessment. Not a psychological, clinical or personality test, and not designed for hiring, promotion or disciplinary decisions. A level describes how you approach work situations, not your job title. Method: SCOPE Maturity Model v1 — situational judgement across six workplace domains, five maturity levels. How it works.