Testing & Assessment

Organisations that use personality testing in their recruitment process could be wasting their time, American psychologists have claimed.

Psychometric testing. Serious recruitment tool or just snake oil and psychobabble? Whatever you affiliation, just stop to ask yourself whether we might already possess the tools within ourselves to assess the suitability of people we meet.

I have officially taken every personality profile known to man. Other than telling me that I'm an ENFP, Independent-Working Blue-Green Lion-Otter hybrid, the one thing they have in common is unanimous agreement that I do have a personality.

Google has devised an elaborate computer-scored online survey in the hope that it will provide a better, quantitative way to find good employees.

More than a sixth of graduates applying for jobs would be prepared to cheat to get an advantage over their candidate competitors, a British survey has discovered.

Finding top salespeople can be like searching for the sharpest needles - in a pile of needles. Many companies continue to hire on gut instinct, but without a good process you're likely to get poked a few times.

We're well-used to hearing about employment discrimination on the basis of sex, race or religion. But discrimination on the basis of Astrological profile is not something that many of us will be familiar with.

Career Assessments may not reveal startling secrets…but they are worth every penny spent. They help you tap into, and articulate, work that is most authentic and meaningful to you.

Graduates who leave applying for jobs until late in the recruitment calendar – i.e. now – are less likely achieve levels of success in the modern workplace, according to new research.

Too much valuable graduate talent is being ‘lost in the system’ by Britain's employers despite huge expenditure in time, technology and money.

Competency and psychometric testing are an established part of the recruitment process, but a new survey has revealed that many jobseekers are being put through increasingly bizarre tests by employers.

Psychological testing in the workplace isn't a new phenomenon, but according to a piece in Business2, recent corporate scandals have led to a boom for the profiling industry.

Asking a question about the spectre of any sort of genetic profiling in recruitment may seem an odd one at the current time.

According to a survey by Wide Learning, leading providers of online compliance and financial training, almost one in three City workers have not received compliance training as regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in November 2001. More surprising still, half of those workers do not even expect to be trained in the next six months.

In the today's global market, human capital is the new currency and today’s motto is, “think global, recruit global”. And the Internet is the key trigger for the growing trend of recruitment internationally.