Wednesday, October 30, 2013

People Central on Psychometric Testing and Recruitment

By Colin James


People Central L.T.D is a Hawkes Bay company concentrating on psychometric testing and assessment. A typical buyer will be an employer that is wanting to hire a staff member.

"The employer either brings us in at the beginning of the process or, thanks to a niggling feeling they're missing something, we come in at the end", says Steve Evans, Director and Founder of People Central. "Having a unprejudiced third party on the selection panel provides great insight for the employer, specifically when the third party is qualified in psychometric testing!".

In Evans experience, most bosses hire persons based on their capacity, and fire them on the grounds of their personality, customarily at material fiscal expense to the employer and emotional cost to the employee. Evans says "Psychometric testing falls into two main categories, personality questions measure sides of personality and talent tests measure intellectual and reasoning ability. When talking about recruitment, capacity testing is excellent for working out if an applicant has the core capabilities necessary for greatness in a job. Many companies don't realise that it is a fact that interviews and reference checks alone don't qualify when referring to determining someone's ability to do the job. "

The kinds of psychometric testing People Central recommend would be peculiar to the job, but Evans asserts that a standard capacity test would cover: oral and numeric reasoning, abstract reasoning, clerical accuracy and ability to check, industrial proficiency, and technical capability. Personality tests identify applicants whose behavior aligns with behavior associated with pre-eminence in a selected business. When undertaking psychometric testing for personality, the following elements can be identified: whether a candidate is likely to worth and support a business culture, competencies and hopes; how they are likely to engage with team-mates, clients, and providers; and how they are probably to cope with the strains and strains of the job.As for that petty feeling, Evans understands that employers can feel like they are in a steamer situation, "Often there is a deadline approaching, and a large amount of work to be done, otherwise employers feel that there's a low pool of skills available in the community. "

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




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