Attitude Testing Archives - Tips For Hiring

Will Your Next Hire Be As Thick As A Brick?

January 8, 2018

This is a Podcast – 8 Minutes Duration.

Problem-solving and general learning ability have a long history of research dating back to the American Military in World War 1. General mental ability tests were developed to identify the suitability of recruits for officer training. A proliferation of research over the last 100 years has validated general mental ability as the best predictor of future job performance, no matter what the job role. This simple, one-off test has a Continue reading →

Problem Solving Tests

Attitude Testing, Employee Profiling, Problem Solving Tests, Psychological Profiling, Psychometric Testing

Union Threatens Legal Action on IRD for Using Psychometric Assessments

October 10, 2017

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Union Threatens Legal Action on IRD for Using Psychometric Assessments

This is a Brief Article

So the Public Service Association are throwing their toys out of the cot because the IRD wants to conduct a robust hiring process for their upcoming restructuring.

Erin Polaezuk, the National Secretary, calls these ‘tests’ absurd and labels them pseudo-scientific. A classic case of moral panic. Interesting, one could counter-punch by pointing out that her comments, based on personal observation are true pseudo-science at work!

One could imagine how many of the original IRD Continue reading →

Attitude Testing, Employee Profiling, Learning & Reasoning Testing, Psychological Profiling, Psychometric Testing

More Scientific Proof of the Benefit of Using Employee Assessments

October 8, 2017

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More Scientific Proof of the Benefit of Using Employee Assessments

This is a Podcast – 12.30 Minutes (You can download the referred academic paper from the link below)

Here at AssessAdvantage, we are often asked to explain why the Prevue Assessment, that measures General Mental Ability, Interest/Motivation and the Big Five personality traits, is one the best available measures of job fit to identify the best job applicants.

Although we provide in-depth technical documentation to support the validity, reliability and fairness of the Prevue Assessment, we can now Continue reading →

Attitude Testing, Employee Profiling, Psychological Profiling, Psychometric Testing

About to Hire? The CV and Interview Are Your Poorest Hiring Tools

August 4, 2017

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About to Hire? The CV and Interview Are Your Poorest Hiring Tools

This is a Podcast – 6.5 minutes

When it comes to hiring, most managers only use a CV and an interview to make the big call on who to throw an average of forty-five thousand dollars to!

A bad hire cost about 2.5X an employee’s annual salary!

CVs and interviews represent around 20{e984e047a0cf0683b5e0a609dc9adff1ef3040909f42c61fefd344cb6b0a14a5} of hiring effectiveness.

You need to get the big picture.

You need to understand those soft innate skills that are impossible to get from CV and interview. Continue reading →

Attitude Testing, Employee Profiling, Recruitment Ideas

Hiring New Staff is Akin to Apple Picking – The Skin May be Rosy, But the Core Rotten.

June 15, 2017

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Hiring New Staff is Akin to Apple Picking – The Skin May be Rosy, But the Core Rotten.

This is a Brief Article:

You might well be thinking, what does apple picking have to do with hiring people? So let’s explain…

Whether interviewing a prospective employee, considering why a colleague, or friend prefers to behave in a certain way (perhaps in a very different way from yourself), or reflecting on your own behavioural style and stress levels, I think we all agree that we are all different to a smaller or greater degree. At the core of Continue reading →

Attitude Testing, Employee Profiling, Psychological Profiling

Using Psychological Assessments for Business – Why the Fear?

April 21, 2017

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Using Psychological Assessments for Business – Why the Fear?

This is a Brief Guest Article

Although we are Organisational Psychologists, we tend to stay away from the word ‘psychologist’. It’s a noun that breeds the fear into even the strongest CEO. Business leaders and owners have the impression we are ‘brain scanning’ and that our occupation is aligned to the ‘dark side’ 🙂

Another word we drop from our vocabulary is, ‘test’ – it’s a word that implies pass or fail. Assessing candidates for employment is all about Continue reading →

Attitude Testing, Psychological Profiling

Testing Job Candidates – Personality Verses Behaviour

March 3, 2017

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Testing Job Candidates – Personality Verses Behaviour

This is An Article

I am re-posting this article after yet another prospective client approached us today trying to decide between test A, or B.

My first action was to ask the test publisher (or in most cases their distributor) one important question. “Can this tool be legally defended – and will the publisher carry the weight of that defense?” Many employee profiling tools are not legally defensible.

There are many occasions were I come across organisations that are using Continue reading →

Attitude Testing, Employee Profiling, Hiring Salespersons, Psychological Profiling

How a Large Insurance Company Modernised Their Hiring Process – Employee Profiling

January 20, 2017

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How a Large Insurance Company Modernised Their Hiring Process – Employee Profiling

This is a Case Study

First Acceptance Corporation is a leading provider of personal auto insurance and other related products. Acceptance is a licensed insurer in 25 states and operates 350 retail locations, as well as a call center staffed with employee-agents. They hire a lot of people!

Checkout this brief case study on how Acceptance moved from paper based hiring using an Applicant Processing System (APS), plus our hiring assessments (employee profiling) and Continue reading →

Attitude Testing, Employee Profiling, Reference Checking

The Advantage of Job Benchmarking When Using Employee Profiling (Job Fit)

August 4, 2016

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The Advantage of Job Benchmarking When Using Employee Profiling (Job Fit)

This is an Article

What is the Advantage of Benchmarking Jobs?

Many assessment products that purport to be designed for hiring and promotion decisions only provide information about the candidate, with no reference to the position for which they are being considered. The Prevue Assessment compares candidates against Prevue Benchmarks: a customized job fit profile that describes the ideal candidate characteristics for the positions in your organization.

When you view Prevue Reports that use a Prevue Benchmark, you get Continue reading →

Benchmarking Jobs, Employee Profiling, Job Fit

Attitude Testing, Employee Profiling, Job Fit Benchmarking

What Are the Most Desirable Attributes of Successful Employees?

July 24, 2016

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What Are the Most Desirable Attributes of Successful Employees?

This is a Podcast – 8 Minutes

Back in the early 90s two well respected Organisational Psychologist, Drs. David Bartram and Patricia Lindley, set out to construct a new psychometric assessment. They wanted to ensure their new tool would measure the key attributes and abilities that best identified “job-fit”. Obviously, their first question was, “What are these?”

In this podcast I outline Bartram and Lindley’s findings and their tool that enables you to reliable measure these and align them Continue reading →

Attitude Testing, Employee Profiling, Employment Interviews