Sunday 27 October 2013

People Central on Psychometric Testing and Recruitment

By Colin James


People Central Ltd is a Hawkes Bay company concentrating on psychometric testing and assessment. A common customer will be a company who is wanting to hire a member of staff.

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

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

The sorts of psychometric testing People Central endorse 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, commercial proficiency, and technical capacity. Personality tests identify applicants whose behavior aligns with behavior connected with pre-eminence in a particular business. When undertaking psychometric testing for personality, the factors below can be identified: whether a candidate is likely to price and support a business culture, competencies and hopes; how they are probably going to interact with team-mates, clients, and providers; and how they are likely to cope with the strains and strains of the job.As for that paltry feeling, Evans understands that employers can feel that they are in a steam cooker situation, "Often there is a cut off point approaching, and a large quantity of work to be done, otherwise employers feel that there's a low pool of abilities available locally. "

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




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