I’ve recently been looking at some new assessment tools to help with finding the best candidate for a role. Good news: I’ve found some great ones!

In conjunction with skilled behavioural interviewing and comprehensive reference checking, psych testing can be a great indicator of a person’s ability and personality – knowledge of which is essential when you’re trying to fill a job. Testing gives you an idea of their work style, leadership qualities, conflict resolution, motivations, and in these tests I’ve recently discovered – sales skills.

Testing a candidate may highlight for you where their strengths lie and also where there is room for improvement. That means the skills identified as non-negotiable-and-the-candidate-must-definitely-possess-these in your search for a particular role can be directly ascertained through psych testing.

Other skill areas that are perhaps less strong but can be developed are also highlighted – so you already know what to set as performance goals for your candidate before they’ve even started!

The tests meet the key quality standards of the European Federation of Professional Psychologists Association’s EFPA Review Model and are based on large or very large sample sizes.

They’re available online, don’t take long at all (20 minutes maximum) to complete and a report is available within one working day. And the best news is that they’re not cost prohibitive!

If you’re interested in chatting to me about testing, if you’d like to see a sample report or if you just want to know how much it’s going to cost you, feel free to contact me.

‘Til next time.

Claire.