Overview:
Complex assessment techniques and business psychology play a vital part in recruitment and development strategies of many successful organisations. In conjunction with Capita Resourcing, our assessment centre development programme is designed to assist you with your recruitment needs by providing you with the tools and know how to assess the competence of your candidates for development and recruitment purposes. This programme provides you with a thorough grounding in the use of psychometric assessment in the workplace. There are no grueling 'end-of course tests' and, although there is a little calculation involved, it is kept at a pragmatic level. Some of the leading business psychologists in the UK who have worked all over the world in the specialist field of human assessment deliver the programme.
Learning objective
You will be able to:
- Understand the practical dimensions of running an assessment centre
- The ability to transfer many of the skills learnt during the training programme so that participants may use them in work situations such as internal interviewing, staff appraisals and team building
- Learn from experienced trainers and business psychologists with extensive practical experience of using tests and a wealth of knowledge around their advantages and disadvantages
- Gain a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited Level A Certificate in Occupational Testing
- Know how to evaluate the quality of all tests on the market to choose effectively
- Learn how to deliver tests using an objective and fair process
- Know how to evaluate test resultsto assess individuals for jobs
- Gain certificate of competence that enables registration with BPS and all major level A test suppliers to allow purchasing of cognitive tests
Course content
- An understanding of competencies and how to assess against a competency framework
- An understanding of the rules of fair and open competition
- Techniques to avoid bias in interview and assessment
- The range of tools available for assessment and development
- How to administer and score cognitive psychometric tests
- How to mark written exercises, group exercises, role plays and interviews against competencies
- How to choose the right exercises for the roles being assessed
- How to timetable an assessment day
- History of testing
- Test administration, choice and score evaluation
- Scoring and norming
- Reliability and validation
- Feedback, utility and fair selection
- Constant open book evaluation - No end of course test
- Site visit to one of the UK's leading test sites and overview of latest technologies in action