HR Assessment: articles and expert opinion
.: “Psychometric Tests” a necessity with regards to selection of students and curriculum support in Business Schools and Universities
Higher education establishments are increasingly using psychometric tests as a tool to select students, to support them in their studies or to prepare them for the corporate world. Here are some Insights by Céline Jouffray, consultant at Central Test.
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.: Corporate Recruitment: Proper use of psychometric tests
Almost all big companies and SMEs especially are increasingly using psychometric tests. The success of Psychometric tests as a recruitment tool is being widely recognized. However, one needs to “Have a hold on all the cards” in order to use them properly!
The use of psychometric tests for recruitment have greatly increased since the last 10 years. Around 70% of SMEs use psychometric tests. "The costs of psychometric tests have also come down, remarks Vijai Pandey, India Operations Manager, Central Test, which makes it viable for small companies to use them as well.”
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.: Using psychometric tests for developmental HR
Be it as part of the training, development or career assessment, psychometric tests are being increasingly used in management of human resources. According to Central Test HR Survey (Jun,2009), almost 40% of the companies use psychometric testing after recruitment for various developmental HR purposes and this practice is going to increase in the years to come.
« Using psychometric tools is crucial to human resource development within the organization », asserts Mariya Jilinskaya, in charge of Research and Development in Central Test. With the longer career span and growing average age of employability, a carefully designed
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.: Different tests combined to create more accurate results
How are these tests useful to HR? Can we rely on the results of a single test? With such a variety of choices, how to decide upon the right test? These are the questions answered by Patrick Leguide, Central Test CEO, for Nao Presse.
Personality tests, the Emotional Intelligence test, the IQ test are examples of the wide variety of tests and questionnaires available to the public. Applied to the field of human resources, these tests may be very useful, as is confirmed by Patrick Leguide, founder of Central Test.
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