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Purpose - This research was carried out in order to determine whether ethical trends in the relationship between the psychobiological personality theory and character factors and work performance have a mediating role. Method - The sample of the research was created by employees of 4 companies, including the medical equipment production factory operating internationally, which requires the study of the impact of the personality characteristics of candidates on the work performance in the human resources consultancy in Ankara province, the national and international engineering company operating in the service sector, and the financial consultancy company operating in the service sector. The data was collected using the "Caracter and Equality Scale (TCI)" and the Ethical Trends Scale. For data analysis, frequency, reliability, correlation, detection and verification factor analysis and structural equality modeling have been used. The findings - The results of the analyses have found that there is a statistically meaningful relationship between the "search for innovation" of the fatigue factors, the character factors of the "sickness" and the "evasion of pain" of the ethical trends and the work performance. But the role of mediation of ethical trends in the relationship between personality characteristics and work performance, which is the basic hypothesis, has not been supported. Discussions - The research finds that, in contrast to the perception that candidates with specific personality characteristics will be more successful, specifically in the recruitment processes, personality characteristics and ethical trends have not shown a significant impact on the work performance. Having these findings taken into account, the research is expected to give researchers and practitioners an opinion about focusing on methods to determine attitudes and behaviors at a more concrete level rather than focusing on the identification of personality and ethical trends in the recruitment processes.