Sabtu, 26 Oktober 2013

People Central on Psychometric Testing and Recruitment

By Colin James


People Central Limited is a Hawkes Bay company focusing on psychometric testing and assessment. A common shopper will be a company who is looking to hire a staff member.

"The employer either brings us in at the beginning of the process or, due to a niggling feeling that they are missing something, we come in at the end", asserts Steve Evans, Director and Founding figure behind People Central. "Having an impartial third party on the selection panel provides great understanding for the employer, especially when the third party is qualified in psychometric testing!".

In Evans experience, most companies hire people based on their capability, and fire them on the grounds of their personality, usually at material financial expense to the employer and emotional cost to the employee. Evans announces "Psychometric testing falls into two main categories, personality questions measure sides of personality and talent tests measure intellectual and reasoning capability. When referring to recruitment, capability testing is fantastic for working out if an applicant has the core capabilities necessary for greatness in a job. Many employers don't realize that it is a indisputable fact that interviews and reference checks alone don't cut the mustard when talking of determining someone's ability to accomplish the job. "

The kinds of psychometric testing People Central counsel would be peculiar to the job, but Evans asserts that a standard ability test would cover: oral and numerical reasoning, abstract reasoning, clerical accuracy and ability to check, commercial proficiency, and technical capacity. Personality tests identify applicants whose behavior aligns with behavior linked with pre-eminence in a specific business. When undertaking psychometric testing for personality, the following factors can be identified: whether a candidate is probably going to value and support a business culture, competencies and hopes; how they are probably going to engage with team-mates, clients, and providers; and how they are likely to handle the pressures and strains of the job.As for that petty feeling, Evans understands that employers can feel that they are in a steamer situation, "Regularly there is a deadline approaching, and a large quantity of work to be done, otherwise bosses feel that there's a low pool of skills available locally. "

Evans urges bosses to bring in a professional to try psychometric testing, he says "The final result is going to be invaluable for the employer".




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