Many companies are now starting to look at the labour market once more to find the talent that they need to help them drive their business forward and take advantage of opportunities that come along. Consequently competition to secure the best talent will be fierce.
At shortlist stage in the recruitment process, being able to identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of each candidate enables you to make the ‘best-fit’ decision about candidates in terms of their suitability for both the role and the organisational culture. Assessment Centres provide the most effective approach, but can be time-consuming and expensive, particularly for senior level appointments. According to CIPD practitioners, interviews remain the most used tool for selection but are much worse predictors of job success, even in the hands of trained and experienced competence-based interviewers.
Combining the Chesterton Gray psychometric assessment and interview process, within our Candidate Profiling Service, provides the best information to inform your candidate choice.
Key Benefits
• Reduce cost and wasted time from poor selection decisions
• In-depth exploration of each candidate’s personality to get the best information for predicting their suitability
• Ability to compare candidates against each other on similar dimensions and to identify their ‘Best-Fit’ to both the role and company culture
• Professional and confidential process reflecting ‘best practice’ in your selection processes
• Online completion creates easy and quick process for candidates
• Speeds up your decision-making through rapid turnaround of reports
The service uses some of the most reliable and sophisticated instruments currently available. It can give you the opportunity to:
• Analyse individual skills, styles, behaviours and competencies.
• Understand personal preferences and approaches in such areas as management style, team working, decision making, creativity, leadership, and a wide range of other, important characteristics.
• Construct a programme of individual development which not only builds on existing strengths, but also improves personal effectiveness by increasing awareness of alternative styles and behaviours.
People make the difference, so the more we know about them, the more we are likely to know the difference they can make to an organisation. Psychological tests and profiles provide objective evidence to supplement that obtained from other sources, such as interviews, whether in a selection process, for personal or team development, or for career counselling.
Our testing and profiling services are provided only by trained and licensed users, working to the standards laid down by the British Psychological Society and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. We recommend only tests and profiles that have been fully validated, and have proven track records of reliability.
Following a full discussion of your needs we will recommend the appropriate tests and profiling tools and agree a timetable. The service includes all administration, full interpretation of the results and preparation of reports as well as the provision of feedback to those completing the tests and profiles.
Our Consultants have access to a comprehensive range of tests and profiles including:
• The complete portfolio of Saville & Holdsworth (SHL) products
Personality Profiles:
• The Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ)
• Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI)
• 16PF and 16 PF5
• The Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire
Ability Tests:
• Able Series
• GMA Reasoning
• Advanced Managerial Tests
• Personal Test Battery
Please contact us for an informal discussion about your individual needs and how we may be able to help you on 020 3130 0393 or email us at consultancy@chestertongray.com
