Sunday, October 27, 2013

People Central on Psychological 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 a company who is looking to hire a staff member.

"The employer either brings us in at the beginning of the process or, thanks to a niggling feeling that they're 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 insight for the employer, especially when the third party is qualified in psychometric testing!".

In Evans experience, most employers hire persons based on their capacity, and fire them on the grounds of their personality, customarily at substantial financial expense to the employer and emotional cost to the employee. Evans says "Psychometric testing falls into two main categories, personality questions measure aspects of personality and aptitude tests measure intellectual and reasoning ability. When referring to recruitment, capability testing is glorious for working out if an applicant has the core capabilities necessary for fulfillment 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 accomplish the job. "

The kinds of psychometric testing People Central endorse would be peculiar to the job, but Evans says that a standard ability test would cover: oral and numerical reasoning, abstract reasoning, clerical accuracy and ability to check, commercial proficiency, and technical ability. Personality tests identify applicants whose behavior aligns with behaviours 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 price and support a business culture, competencies and aspirations; how they are probably to interact with team-mates, clients, and providers; and how they are probably to deal with the stresses and strains of the job.As for that petty feeling, Evans understands that bosses can feel that they are in a steamer situation, "Regularly there is a cut-off point approaching, and a large amount of work to be done, otherwise bosses feel that there's a low pool of talents available in the neighborhood. "

Evans urges employers to bring in a professional to try psychometric testing, he asserts "The result will be invaluable for the employer".




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