Sunday, 27 October 2013

People Central on Psychological Testing and Recruitment

By Colin James


People Central L.T.D is a Hawkes Bay company specialising in psychometric testing and assessment. A normal buyer will be a company who is looking to hire a member of staff.

"The employer either brings us in at the beginning of the process or, because of a niggling feeling that they are missing something, we come in at the end", asserts Steve Evans, Director and Founding figure behind 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 someone based on their ability, and fire them on the grounds of their personality, customarily at material fiscal expense to the employer and emotional cost to the employee. Evans claims "Psychometric testing falls into two main categories, personality questions measure facets of personality and talent tests measure intellectual and reasoning ability. When it comes to recruitment, capability testing is fantastic for working out if an applicant has the core capabilities necessary for fulfillment in a job. Many companies don't realize that it is a fact that interviews and reference checks alone don't make the grade when it comes to determining someone's ability to accomplish the job. "

The kinds of psychometric testing People Central recommend would be restricted to the job, but Evans asserts that a common ability test would cover: oral and numerical reasoning, abstract reasoning, clerical accuracy and ability to check, industrial proficiency, and technical capacity. Personality tests identify applicants whose behavior aligns with behaviours linked with fulfillment in a selected business. When undertaking psychometric testing for personality, the following factors can be identified: whether a candidate is in all likelihood to worth and support a business culture, competencies and desires; how they are likely to engage with team-mates, clients, and providers; and how they are probably going to handle the pressures and strains of the job.As for that petty feeling, Evans understands that companies can feel like they are in a steam cooker situation, "Regularly there is a deadline approaching, and a large quantity of work to be done, otherwise employers feel that there's a low pool of abilities available in the community. "

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




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