Monday 28 October 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 typical buyer will be an employer who is wanting to hire an employee.

"The employer either brings us in at the beginning of the process or, because of a niggling feeling they're 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 somebody based on their capability, and fire them on the grounds of their personality, typically at material financial expense to the employer and emotional cost to the employee. Evans claims "Psychometric testing falls into two main categories, personality questions measure sides of personality and talent tests measure intellectual and reasoning capacity. When it comes to recruitment, capability testing is excellent 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 qualify when referring to determining someone's ability to get the job done. "

The types of psychometric testing People Central endorse would be specific to the job, but Evans asserts that a typical capability 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 behaviour aligns with behaviours associated with pre-eminence in a particular business. When undertaking psychometric testing for personality, the following elements can be identified: whether a candidate is probably going to worth 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 probably to cope with the stresses and strains of the job.As for that paltry feeling, Evans understands that employers can feel they are in a steam cooker situation, "Regularly there is a cut-off point approaching, and a large quantity of work to be done, otherwise companies feel that there's a low pool of skills available locally. "

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




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