HR Assessment: Articles and Expert's Opinion

Business grew by almost 40% and the company boasted more international development, more recruitment, more cutting-edge tests...the past year was a remarkable year for Central Test. Confident in its leading position in the e-assessment marketplace, Central Test will keep moving full speed ahead in 2012 as a celebration of its 10th anniversary.
William Cunche, general manager of Central Test, reviews the highlights of last year, while presenting the development prospects of the company in 2012.

Recrutiement errors - Psychometric testing - Online assessment - HR tests

How we think can influence what we think and lead to errors of judgment and poor decisions. These cognitive biases affect us all, even recruiters. While we cannot avoid them, we can learn to recognise them and lessen their impact on the way we make decisions.
In the world of recruitment, there are five cognitive biases to which recruitment professionals are mostly likely to fall victim.

IQ Testing - Performance Evaluation - Intelligence Assessment - Aptitude Test

Most people believe that IQ is the only benchmark to evaluate an individual's intelligence and abilities. But this is not the case. Recent scientific research shows that IQ is correlated with academic and work performance, however, the correlation is not linear. IQ is regarded as being less important to achieving success in certain jobs, than other capacities, such as emotional intelligence, creativity, language, critical thinking, intuition and global vision.

Interpersonal Skills - Personality Test - Technical Professionals Evaluation

Technical employees were once long confined to machines and programs, with no interaction with staff from other departments. Now these professionals deal with different teams and clients a little more each day.They need to interact with their colleagues and clients as well. Strong interpersonal skills thus have become more and more essential to their duties.

Employees Motivation - Team Management - Online Personality Assessements

Keep employees motivated in today's corporate world, is crucial for managers.To effectively motivate their teams, managers must first be aware of the key elements of employee motivation. To fulfill this role and create a setting that is conducive to keeping motivation high, managers must successfully understand and integrate three fundamental concepts.

Creativity Tools - Recruitment Test - Online Psychometrics- Personality test

Creative thinking drives innovation and sets your company in gear for growth. Using personality tests can be an effective starting point, as certain personality traits, such as being independent, intuitive, experimental, and adaptable can indicate whether or not a person is predisposed to creativity.

Recruitment Test - Leadership Evaluation - Behavioural skills assessment

Speaking and listening capabilities, stress management, leadership... These behavioural skills are increasingly appreciated by employers. These traits are generally hard to assess but it can useful to examine them using hypothetical situation exercises. The objective is not to determine which reactions are right or wrong - it is to observe the candidates' natural responses to a given situation. Using simulations, recruiters can measure capabilities and discover the hidden potential of prospective employees.

Emotional Intelligence Assessment - Psychometric Test - Online Psychometrics

Emotional intelligence is all about our ability to understand our own emotions and to interact harmoniously with those around us.Emotional intelligence can be hugely important in the workplace, especially in terms of people-management. Emotional intelligence can be measured using Emotional Quotient (EQ) tests.

Talent Assessment - Psychometric Assessment - Personality Test

The concepts of management and leadership are not interchangeable. A good leader is not necessarily a good manager – nor is every manager a natural leader. While a flair for leadership is primarily a personality trait, management strengths tend to be founded on acquired skills and technical know-how. Being aware of these differences is essential when it comes to evaluating the leadership potential of your candidates.

Management assessment - Psychometric evaluation - Talent management

Whether you recruiting or carrying out an internal reorganization, failing to take adequate measures when evaluating managers can be an expensive mistake for any business. While management roles may vary from job to job and from company to company, good managers all have certain qualities in common - and it is well-advised to evaluate these in an objective manner.

Personality Test - HR Assessments - Online Psychometric Tests

In the world of personality testing, there are no right or wrong answers. To make an accurate interpretation of a person's responses, evaluators should consider six essential points.
Evaluators must first understand what qualities they are looking for in a candidate, in order to correctly interpret test results. No personality profile is intrinsically better or worse than any other.

HR selection - Recruitment - Talent management - Sales assessment

Sales ability is not just a question of experience. It's also a matter of personality and of motivation. Whatever the sphere of activity or the particular requirements of the job, it's clear that the most successful sales people all possess the same common denominator, an ability to sell - a skill that may be difficult to describe, but which is identifiable if you adopt a multi-faceted approach.

Career guidance - Selection - Curriculum support - Evaluation tools

Higher education establishments are increasingly using psychometric tests as a tool to select students, to support them in their studies or to prepare them for the corporate world. Here are some Insights by Céline Jouffray, consultant at Central Test.

Internal mobility - Career Assessment - Psychometric tests - Training

Be it as part of the training, development or career assessment, psychometric tests are being increasingly used in management of human resources. According to Central Test HR Survey (Jun,2009), almost 40% of the companies use psychometric testing after recruitment for various developmental HR purposes and this practice is going to increase in the years to come.

Human Ressources - Psychometric Testing - Competency Profiling

Personality tests, the Emotional Intelligence test, the IQ test are examples of the wide variety of tests and questionnaires available to the public. Applied to the field of human resources, these tests may be very useful, as is confirmed by Patrick Leguide, founder of Central Test.

Psychometric tests - Personnality Test - Career guidance - HR Evaluation

From personality tests and career guidance tests to tests that measure IQ and EQ, there’s a wide range of psychometric tests currently available on the market. If you’re trying to find the tests that best suit your company’s needs, here are ten pointers you should bear in mind.

Recruitment - Skills assessment - Personality test - HR Evaluation

As the anonymous CV becomes increasingly popular all over the world, more and more businesses are taking this concept one step further by removing it altogether. This de-emphasises the importance traditionally placed on diplomas and other educational qualifications, and it is here that psychometric tests play a key role.

Recruitment - HR Assessment - Training - Psychometric tests

The use of psychometric tests for recruitment have greatly increased since the last 10 years. Around 70% of SMEs use psychometric tests. "The costs of psychometric tests have also come down, remarks Vijai Pandey, India Operations Manager, Central Test, which makes it viable for small companies to use them as well.”