The strengths worth putting on a CV are the two or three from the top of your profile that you can show with a concrete example, in plain words such as curiosity or perseverance. A list of 24 scores is for you; a reader wants evidence, and a strength with a story beats five without one.
Who this is for
This guide, and the test it serves, are written for the person who takes it. The site does not produce reports for employers and does not help anyone select or compare candidates; a self-report of strengths is for the person who gave it. If an employer asked you to take this test and send the result, the result would tell them how you chose to describe yourself on that day, which is not the same as what you can do.
What the research finds about strengths at work
Peterson and Seligman (2004) built the classification so that each of the 24 strengths could be named in ordinary language, which is why the names translate to a CV without jargon: honesty, teamwork, prudence and love of learning are words a reader already understands. Harzer and Ruch (2014) asked employees to rate their strengths and their supervisors to rate their performance, and found that self-rated strengths related to supervisor ratings, and that different strengths mattered for different parts of a job: for finishing tasks, for going beyond them, for supporting colleagues and for supporting the organisation. No one strength was best for everything. In an earlier study, Harzer and Ruch (2012) found that people who could apply four or more of their signature strengths in their work were more likely to describe it as a calling, whatever the work was.
What a strengths profile does not mean
It is not a prediction of how well you will do a job. The test measures how you describe yourself with four items per strength, and the published reliabilities for single strengths over a few weeks run from .55 to .82, so a strength at fifth place today may be at seventh next month. It is not ranked against other applicants, because no norm sample is published and the site does not invent one. A low marker on, say, leadership is not a weakness that disqualifies you from anything; it describes a person who does not much like taking charge.
What it means for your results
Read your top five, then ask which of them you could prove with one specific thing you did. Those are the ones to write down, each with its example, in the words the site uses or in your own. A strength near the top that you cannot illustrate is still yours; it just does not belong on a page whose reader will ask for evidence. The site shows the strips and the words; the examples are the part only you can supply.
The character strengths test has 96 items, takes ten minutes, is scored on your device, and the result is kept only on that device unless you choose to share it.