Applicant Screening

We provide quick and cost-effective but, nevertheless, robust online screening for job applicants at all levels.  The objective is to facilitate selection decision-making with a view to minimising the risk of costly recruitment errors.  

Our applicant screening service includes:-

• Liaison with our client to establish the qualities fundamental to job success.
• Choice of the most appropriate online assessments to identify those candidates achieving a close match with job requirements and organisational culture.
• Administration of these online assessments.
• Production of bespoke assessment reports highlighting relevant aspects of each candidate’s performance, along with recommended interview questions based upon the assessment outcome.

Assessment Centres 

Assessment centres are widely acknowledged to be one of the best methods of assessing candidates and predicting their future performance within a particular role and work environment.  Typically used for graduate, managerial and executive recruitment, they are characterised by a number of candidates participating in a range of job simulation activities, undertaken individually or in groups, in the presence of psychologist assessors trained and experienced in candidate observational skills.  With the assessment centre exercises simulating aspects of the job description and work environment, it is possible to secure detailed insights regarding candidate suitability.

Our assessment centre service includes:-

• Securing a very thorough and in depth understanding of the role, its organisational context and associated candidate requirements.
• Design of an assessment centre incorporating the most appropriate simulation exercises (e.g. group discussions, role plays, case studies, presentations), in addition to psychometric assessment and structured interviews, to provide detailed insight into the candidate qualities relevant to job success. In designing assessment centres, we tend to adopt an integrated “day in the life” approach to ensure the process is seamless as well as highly representative of normal daily job-related experience, thus ensuring relevance to both client organisation and participants.
• Preparing all necessary assessment centre documentation for candidate and assessor use.
• Bringing together and fully briefing those psychologist assessor team members with industry experience most relevant to the project in question.
• Delivery of the assessment centre.
• Preparation and submission of comprehensive, bespoke assessment centre reports detailing performance of each candidate against the specified requirements and offering clear recommendations.
• Further client liaison to facilitate appropriate selection decisions.
• The provision of development orientated feedback for both successful and unsuccessful candidates.

Leadership Assessment

The importance of making the right selection decisions at senior levels is critical especially given that the wrong appointment of a candidate, internal or external, will create truly significant tangible and intangible costs for the organisation. 

Where circumstances, such as candidate numbers, preclude the use of assessment centres, we offer a suitably in depth senior candidate assessment solution administered on an individual basis.

This leadership assessment service includes:-

• Securing a very thorough and in depth understanding of the role, its organisational context and associated candidate requirements.
• Design of a leadership assessment incorporating the most appropriate simulation exercises (e.g. role plays, case studies, presentations), in addition to psychometric assessment and structured interviews, to provide detailed insight into the candidate qualities relevant to job success. In designing leadership assessments, we tend to adopt an integrated “day in the life” approach to ensure the process is seamless as well as highly representative of normal daily job-related experience, thus ensuring relevance to both client organisation and participant.
• Preparing all necessary leadership assessment documentation for candidate and assessor use.
• Delivery of the leadership assessment.
• Preparation and submission of a comprehensive, bespoke leadership assessment report detailing candidate performance against the specified requirements and offering clear recommendations.
• Further client liaison to facilitate appropriate selection decisions.
• The provision of development orientated feedback for the candidate, whether successful or unsuccessful.

Psychometric Assessment

Using psychometric testing to facilitate people decision-making at all levels is a generally accepted method of reducing risk.

As an independent consultancy, we have access to a very wide range of leading edge, online psychometrics from world renowned test publishers, enabling choice of the most appropriate psychometric assessments based entirely upon identified client need. 

Our psychometric assessment service includes:-

• Securing a very thorough and in depth understanding of the role, its organisational context and associated candidate requirements.
• Selection of a battery of psychometric tests most appropriate to measuring precise candidate requirements.
• Online administration of these tests.
• Preparation and submission of comprehensive, bespoke psychometric assessment reports detailing candidate performance against the specified requirements and offering clear recommendations.
• Further client liaison to facilitate appropriate selection decisions.
• The provision of development orientated feedback for both successful and unsuccessful candidates.

Success Profiling

Especially for those organisations planning to recruit a significant volume of job applicants to organisationally critical roles, the implementation of success profiling methodology has enormous benefits.  A success profile is essentially a “blueprint” which specifies the common traits and characteristics of high performers within specific roles and particular organisational contexts.  Typically, it embraces considerations of experience, skills, personal history/circumstances, behavioural traits, cognitive ability, motivations and cultural alignment.  When compiled meticulously, this “blueprint” may be used to guide assessment of future applicants.

Our success profiling service includes:-

• A research phase designed to understand the traits and characteristics of high performers.
• A development phase incorporating specification of those traits and characteristics typical of high performers prior to compilation of a battery of assessment instruments capable of measuring these critical traits and characteristics in a manner consistent with identifying high performers and differentiating them from other candidates.
• An implementation phase incorporating entailing completion of the assessment battery by job applicants followed by preparation and submission of comprehensive, bespoke psychometric assessment reports detailing candidate performance against the established “blueprint” and offering clear recommendations.