People Central on Mental Testing and Recruitment

By Colin James


People Central Limited is a Hawkes Bay company concentrating on psychometric testing and assessment. A common customer will be an employer who is wanting to hire a staff member.

"The employer either brings us in at the beginning of the process or, thanks to a niggling feeling that they are missing something, we come in at the end", announces Steve Evans, Director and Creator of People Central. "Having a unprejudiced third party on the selection panel provides great discernment for the employer, specifically when the third party is qualified in psychometric testing!".

In Evans experience, most bosses hire somebody based on their capacity, and fire them on the grounds of their personality, usually at substantial fiscal expense to the employer and emotional cost to the employee. Evans announces "Psychometric testing falls into two main categories, personality questions measure sides of personality and ability tests measure intellectual and reasoning ability. When talking about recruitment, ability testing is excellent for working out if an applicant has the core capabilities necessary for success in a job. Many companies don't realise that it is a indisputable fact that interviews and reference checks alone don't make the grade when referring to determining someone's ability to accomplish the job. "

The types of psychometric testing People Central endorse 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 ability. Personality tests identify applicants whose behaviour aligns with behaviours linked with pre-eminence in a specific business. When undertaking psychometric testing for personality, the following factors can be identified: whether a candidate is in all likelihood to price and support a business culture, competencies and hopes; how they are probably going to have interaction with team-mates, clients, and providers; and how they are probably to deal with the stresses and strains of the job.As for that petty feeling, Evans understands that companies can feel that they are in a steamer situation, "Often there is a cut off point approaching, and a large amount of work to be done, otherwise companies feel that there's a low pool of talents available in the neighborhood. "

Evans urges employers to bring in a professional to undertake psychometric testing, he says "The result is going to be invaluable for the employer".




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