About Us - Psychometric Testing
Our Approach | Psychometric Testing
As accredited agents of Harrison Assessments’ online employment profile system, Executive People are trained in psychometric testing to help match individual traits, preferences and competencies to your position requirements and team dynamics.
We can incorporate your company's values and culture into our testing tools for the purpose of employee selection, development and retention by:
- Screening and interviewing new job candidates;
- enabling you to leverage the strengths of your potential and existing employees;
- discover the hidden paradoxes or inconsistencies that can impact job performance and satisfaction; and
- Assist you in redefining roles and requirements for restructuring and organisational downsizing.
The right people for the job
Psychometric testing provides a powerful way of ensuring the best candidates are selected by assessing their ability and preferred behavioural styles.
Top 10 benefits:
1. Attract better staff
It is now widely accepted that organisational success is to a large extent dependent on the hiring and motivating of talented staff. When it is used well, psychometric testing helps individuals to become more self-aware, and this psychological well-being is motivational for existing staff, and attractive to potential staff.
2. Make selection more objective
Psychometric testing forces HR to think more clearly about roles, what attributes those roles require, and what those attributes specifically mean. It also reduces dependence on interviews, with several accompanying benefits. Objective facts become as important as interpersonal relationships in selection, and companies avoid the trap of using interviews as a way of finding people who are the same as those who already work there. Companies can also sidestep candidates who are good at interviews, and little else.
3. Reduce selection mistakes
Employing the wrong staff is costly. Advocates of psychometric testing claim that it makes selection more accurate.
4. Lower recruitment costs
By weeding out more candidates before inviting them to interview, an organisation is able to lower travel expenses and administration costs. Even more significantly, it is possible to reduce the time senior executives spend interviewing candidates.
5. Minimise legal risks
Psychometric testing can also reduce the risk of being sued by candidates claiming they were rejected for reasons other than competence or suitability.
6. Recruit faster
By pre-screening candidates using an online system of psychometric tests, an organisation can speed up its recruitment process a make offers ahead of the competition.
7. Measure the recruitment process
Proving the effectiveness of a hiring strategy is always difficult but using the scoring system from psychometric tests can assist employers in making a fairly clear return on investment calculation of the effectiveness of the testing. They can particularly do this when they hire a lot of staff, can distinguish clearly between good and average performers, and when good performers produce considerably more value for the organisation than average and poor performers.
8. Improve credibility
Simply using psychometric testing tends to improve the credibility of the process. Other departments recognise that HR is taking a more 'scientific' approach to the hiring process. It makes it clear to candidates that the role and the person in it are valued.
9. Build teams
Psychometric testing allows individuals to find out about their own strengths and weaknesses, and also about those of the people around them. This promotes more effective working relationships and improves team performance. Introducing people to an issue and to different ways of approaching it can have a real impact on interactions in the workplace.
10. Enhance management and development
In the same way, managers are likely to communicate better and have a clearer understanding of the needs of employees. Training and management in some organisations is often focused on less talented staff but using psychometric testing can enable an organisation to use its training and management budget more efficiently by focusing on the staff with the most potential. At the very least, it provides a clear and objective basis for a conversation about individual development.
Need to attract and retain better staff? Leverage Executive People’s knowledge of Harrison Assessments to help build you a stronger, more successful business. Contact us for further information.
