Screen, Select, Develop
With today’s emphasis on leaner workplace practices, each employee plays a critical role and each new hire presents an opportunity to increase an organisation’s performance. An organisation’s success or failure relies to a large degree on its skill in recruitment and selection, and its capacity to retain and leverage talent of the highest calibre. Psychometric testing is one of the most objective and valid means of assessing an individual’s potential and suitability for a role. Used effectively, psychometric assessments can enable you to recruit, develop and retain top talent for your organisation.
What does a successful candidate look like? How do you ensure you are measuring the right attributes in a candidate to evaluate potential performance?
TestGrid has several online assessment methods and tools to help you measure for:
- Personality and Behaviours
- Cognitive ability
- Skills and competence
- Potential for improvement
- Suitability for specific roles
- Best candidate/organisation fit.
Measuring Behaviours
The behavioural style that an individual brings to an organisation can have a significant impact on a range of business factors, including culture, interpersonal and group dynamics, and overall business performance. Measuring an individual’s behavioural style during the recruitment and selection process provides you with an in-depth understanding of their competency potential, behavioural fit with role requirements, and degree of alignment between the individual and the organisational culture.
TestGrid provides a range of Behavioural Assessment tools and personality assessments to measure and identify your candidates’ and employees’ behavioural work patterns, preferred work styles, values, and motivation. These assessments utilise well-validated models and theories to provide reliable information about a candidate’s suitability for a particular work environment. They also have empirical research demonstrating strong links to employee performance.
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Behavioural Assessments provide valuable information to help build effective teams and develop your employees. TestGrid’s range of Behavioural Assessments allow you to choose the most suitable assessment/s for your specific industry and the job roles within it. Using suitable Behavioural assessments enable insight into whether or not a candidate will culturally fit into an organisation. It reflects their competency potential and suggests areas for further investigation and development. A number of different norm groups are available for use to ensure meaningful comparisons among candidates, and to further ensure fair recruitment and selection decisions are made.
TestGrid has targeted assessment solutions to assist with the selection and development of senior executive, professional and management roles.
To speak to a TestGrid consultant about which products will be most suited to your context, or how we can assist in the implementation of these products, please contact us For an example of the personality testing products TestGrid offers, click here.
Measuring Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is a powerful predictor of employee performance. Individuals with high emotional intelligence are able to perceive, understand and manage emotions, enhancing their personal effectiveness, decision-making, confidence and motivation.
An extensive body of research demonstrates that employees with higher emotional intelligence tend to outperform employees with lower emotional intelligence. This is particularly evident in leadership/ managerial and sales roles. Some research findings include:
- Staff in an Australian organisation undergoing an emotional intelligence development program outperformed other staff by 12%, achieving an average budget of approximately $530,000 compared with average budget of $460,000 for those who did not attend the emotional intelligence development program
- Sales staff selected based on Emotional Intelligence for L’Oreal sold approximately $91,370 more than other sales professionals, resulting in a net revenue increase of $2,558,360
- Sales staff from a large insurance company with high Emotional Intelligence sold policies worth an average of $114,000 compared with an average of $54,000 by sales staff with lower Emotional Intelligence
- Partners in a multinational consulting company with high emotional intelligence produced 1.2 million dollars more profit from their accounts than their counterparts with lower emotional intelligence
The value of understanding how prospective or existing employees perceive, understand and manage emotions in the workplace can be seen across a range of business skills including the following:
- Networking ability - can the candidate meet and greet appropriately and effectively?
- Communication skills - imperative for relationship building with both colleagues and clients, negotiating and leading and directing teams
- Stress management and maintenance of professional manner
- Maintaining healthy, trusting relationships and fostering of positive attitudes in employees.
TestGrid provides emotional intelligence tools to assist in the recruitment and selection or development of employees. To speak to a TestGrid consultant about the products that will best suit your context, please contact us.
