Your personality, portable: why your profile should follow you everywhere
Nazar Akrami
CEO & Founder
Your LinkedIn profile follows you from job to job. Your Spotify account follows you from device to device. But your personality — arguably the most fundamental thing about you — starts from scratch every time someone asks you to take a test.
In most hiring contexts, personality assessments are one-off events. A recruiter sends a test, you complete it, and the results live in that recruiter’s system. If you apply somewhere else, you start over. The insight you built is lost.
Lobe works differently. You take the assessment once, and your profile belongs to you. You can retake it to improve accuracy, compare it with others, and share it when and where you choose. Your personality becomes a portable identity — something you build over time, not something that is extracted from you for a single decision.
This matters for two reasons. First, personality traits are relatively stable across time (Roberts & DelVecchio, 2000). A well-measured profile has lasting value. Rebuilding it from scratch for every new context wastes your time and produces noisier results.
Second, ownership changes the power dynamic. When your profile is yours, you decide who sees it and what they see. On Lobe, others only ever see a match percentage — never your raw trait scores — and only with your explicit approval.
Personality data should work like any other form of personal identity: built once, refined over time, and controlled by the person it describes.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Most personality assessments are one-off events where the results belong to someone else.
Lobe gives you a portable personality profile that you own, refine, and control.
Personality traits are stable enough to have lasting value — rebuilding from scratch wastes accuracy.
Others only see a match percentage, never your raw scores, and only with your approval.
REFERENCES
Roberts, B. W., & DelVecchio, W. F. (2000). The rank-order consistency of personality traits from childhood to old age: A quantitative review of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 126(1), 3–25.