Some companies like to select employees through assessment
centres and it can seem daunting so here are details on a few
things you may expect on the day.

What are Assessment Centres?

They normally take place between one and three full days and
are usually the final part of the interview process.

 
The process can involve some or all of the following:

Psychometric tests
Group exercises
Oral presentations
Written exercises
Individual interviews

What is the company looking for?

It is important to be yourself during an assessment centre, but it is also useful to know what kinds of qualities a company is looking for throughout the recruitment process. These qualities might include:

Personal drive
Influencing skills
Communication and team work skills
Numerical and verbal reasoning
A sense of ambition & initiative


Assessors will look for evidence of these aptitudes and qualities over the course of the assessment centre using various different testing methods.

Psychometric Tests

Many people panic when they hear the words ‘psychometric tests’. There is no cause for concern as they are only one part of the selection process. So even if you feel that the test did not go well, you can still impress in other ways.

There are two types of psychometric test: aptitude tests and personality questionnaires. Aptitude tests assess your abilities and personality questionnaires help to build up a profile of your characteristics and personality. Basically, psychometric tests are tools for measuring the mind (‘metric’ = measure; ‘psycho’ = mind ).

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