About Adrift

It's me, Richard! My name is Richard Still and I worked in the personality testing (psychometrics) field for twenty years. I was the programmer and developer of a tool called Online Talent Manager, a psychometric testing system with hundreds of tests in four languages. That system was bought by a larger company and I moved on to other things. Since then, I have worked in other fields as a programmer, but psychometric testing has remained something that I am very interested in. There are a lot of personality testing products on the market, but many of them do not meet what I think are minimum quality thresholds for reliability and accuracy. My analytical personality just cannot let that go, and I have been thinking for a long time about how to build a better system.

During my time at OTM, I worked closely with test researchers (Dr. Andre Tjoa, drs Bert Goos, and Ron van de Water) to refine tests and the statistical validation that those tests need to go through. Those twenty years taught me what a good psychometric test should be, and I am at a place in my life where I can build the infrastructure and test instruments I want to.

I am building Adrift:

To provide a resource for people looking for "what's next" but needing a direction
To provide an alternative to some of the less-than-good instruments in the commercial psychometric testing space
To create a platform that researchers can use to validate or distribute their own instruments
To give career coaches or hiring managers a psychometric toolbox that is both high-quality and intuitive to use
To be helpful