The General Reasoning Test (GRT2) battery of Numerical, Verbal and Abstract reasoning is one of the most widely used ability test batteries, with over 40,000 administered in New Zealand. This is the test chosen by New Zealand Police to sharpen up police recruitment practices after criticisms in 2006/7. The test is particularly useful for identifying staff who are likely to …
Introduction to Adaptive Testing
Adaptive testing has been around for a few years now, but many HR professionals and business owners remain unaware of their existence or application, so here is a quick introduction to the concept and its application in your business: Adaptive tests are the next level in the evolution of testing people’s abilities and skills, and became reality once computer based …
What is holding New Zealand back in Identifying Talent in Staff & Candidates?
Whilst this countries large, and often international, corporate organisations seem to have grasped the value of using multiple-exercise assessment or development centres in the selection of new staff and identifying talent for succession among their existing workforce, the take up rate of this approach in the country as a whole remains painfully slow. The same can be said for or …
Managing Out-of-Region Candidate’s & Off-Site Staff
As the volume of psychometric testing and assessment we deliver for clients across the country continues to climb, it seems a timely moment to remind readers of the options they have available to them when their preferred job candidate is currently living at the opposite end of the country, or even off-shore.
Recruitment & Development Masterclass – Two Case Studies on Absolute Best Practice
How do the world’s most respected organisations with cutting-edge HR expertise select new staff and determine who to invest in to meet clearly defined succession plans?
People asking these types of questions quickly reach the logical next step of whether they can replicate absolute best practice into their own businesses, and we have been fortunate enough to work with two such organisations this spring, whose approach we can share with you here.
People Central’s Clients Benefit from Major New Investment in Personality Profiling Services
We have recently invested heavily in new additions to our cutting edge personality profiling services that bring huge additional benefits to our clients when recruiting new staff, making the most of existing teams and enhancing your businesses PR through positive experiences of coming into contact with your business as a job applicant. The three core changes are: 1. A new …
Sales Manager Guide to Choosing & Using Psychometrics in Recruitment
From New Zealand Sales Manager Magazine. April 2010 If you ever want to polarise opinion in a meeting of sales managers, just start talking about psychometric testing. You’ll find that few hiring managers are indifferent to the subject, with some extolling the benefits of identifying high flyers who exceeded all targets, whilst others vehemently deliver bitter experience of using psycho-babble …
What is Your Career Worth to You?
Whether you own a business or work for one, 2010 looks to be shaping up to be a much better year than 2009. The downturn did however remind people that one of their most valuable assets is their career. A recovering market brings opportunities to secure new business and reap the rewards of maintaining strong relationships with existing clients. To …
Quick Buyers Guide to Using & Choosing Assessments in New Zealand
October 2012 In our experience, many managers and business owners are keen to either introduce objective assessments of job candidates and existing staff for the first time, or look at reviewing the processes currently in place to ensure they are delivering effectively and providing value for money. The benefits of reducing the risks of poor recruitment decisions and identifying talent …
Is Your Career Worth $370?
So, you have spent most of the year doing everything for your clients, colleagues, staff, suppliers, friends and family. How about taking a moment as the year draws to a close to think about yourself? Is your career, your business and everything outside of work going as well as you would like? Even if the answer is an emphatic ‘yes’, …