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career and recruitment expertise
to give you practical workforce solutions
Psychometric assessment
Whether restructuring, or recruiting, selecting the best person for a position is not just about matching technical competence with technical requirements. We can see technical competence in the person’s resume, professional achievements, qualifications and work experience.
However, ask yourself some important questions about the individual:
- how well does this person interact with others in the workplace?
- how do they motivate themselves to complete tasks on time?
- do they set and achieve goals?
- are they comfortable selling your product or cold-calling clients?
- do they work effectively in a team environment?
- are they interested in developing a career?
Incorporating psychometric assessment into your selection process allows you to make an informed decision about your candidate.
Choosing the right person for the role means increased likelihood of success in the job and long-term retention of staff, reducing replacement and training costs.
Advantage Consulting Services have a range of assessment packages to suit your situation:
Selection and recruitment
Personality and cognitive ability alone can help to explain as much as 44% of a person’s job performance. Standard recruitment procedures generally don’t measure these.
By including psychometric assessment in your recruitment program you can:
- assess candidates against your work culture and specific job requirements
- specify your organisation’s needs and get candidates who can meet them
In measuring these candidate characteristics, you can feel more confident your new recruits will
- perform better in their role
- be more suited and thus more satisfied with their new position
- be less likely to leave the organisation
- lead to reduced costs associated with rehiring and training.
Our psychometric testing packages can include
- personality
- reasoning abilities
- leadership and management abilities
- general work style
- emotional intelligence
Psychometric assessment also protects against indirect discrimination. It makes your selection process fairer and more legally defensible.
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Staff development
Assessment of the values, abilities and work preferences of your current employees allows you identify
- areas for performance development
- potential issues of conflict and low team cohesion
- unhelpful values and unwritten assumptions among employees
These can undermine innovation and creativity, and stifle individual performance.
Assessment of employees gives an understanding of the interplay between personality, work values and preferred working styles. Alignment of staff work preferences and values with the organisation’s strategic vision and direction means enhanced performance and increased productivity.
Results of these assessments can be utilised as part of our workplace coaching programs and help identify future learning and development needs for individuals and team.
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Manager and leadership development
We employ a number of assessment tools that provide specific measures of management and leadership capabilities and styles.
In combination with the above assessments, these tools provide a comprehensive and in-depth evaluation of executive capacity to manage, to motivate, to inspire and lead.
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Benefits of our Psychometric Assessment Services
Flexibility . We offer flexible assessment services that are tailored to the business needs of the organisation. We also offer a flexible fee structure.
Value . Our clients are assured the best customer service and value for money.
Quality . All assessment administration, interpretation, feedback and written reports are undertaken by registered Organisational Psychologists trained and accredited in psychometric assessment and members of the Australian Psychological Society.
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