Selection and Assessment of Managers and Staff

Selection and assessment has many applications in the firm. Examples include during recruitment, when considering promotion, succession and re-structuring and when forming project teams.

Recruitment of Managers and Staff

Recruitment is one of the most important activities a manager will ever undertake. Fundamentally, the manager must get it right for the good of their firm. It costs too much to get it wrong. Recruitment starts with P&L modelling to determine who is needed and to evaluate options. The manager then needs to develop job descriptions and person profiles. The person specifications set the source of candidates, the recruitment method, the testing to be done and the interview content.

TimelessTime consultants have recruited well over a thousand staff to R&D, sales, marketing, support, professional services and a host of other roles in telecommunications, science and technology, charities, education, travel and leisure, building, aerospace, healthcare, FMCG and pharmaceuticals.  

Psychometric Testing: a key aid in selection

Psychometric testing has its origins in the 1940s in the US army. In the UK, the most widely known aptitude test is the 11 Plus, used even now for selection of children into grammar schools. Today there are many tests available that evaluate aptitude and give a good assessment of a person’s personality.

Personality assessment is based on the work of many psychologists including Carl Jung, Hans Eyseneck and Isabel Briggs Myers. Early work suggested personality defined by three characteristics – extroversion, introversion and neuroticism. Today many more factors are added to give a very good picture from responses to a raft of questions. Fit between person and job can also be assessed in specific roles like sales. Psychometric tests are varied and powerful. Only specially trained analysts may administer and interpret tests.

TimelessTime consultants are trained and are accredited by the British Psychological Society. The key thing is to select the right tests. Call TimelessTime today to discuss how psychometrics can help your business.

Assessing and Selecting managers and Staff

There are many instances where managers may need to assess and select staff but there is no one way and no single set of tests. Assessing and selecting involves understanding the firm’s needs, understanding the roles in the firm and understating assessment and selection methods. From this, TimelessTime builds an assessment and selection method. Call us to discuss how we could assess and select staff with you.

on 01825 724179 for a free review of your job desciptions and person profiles in readiness for recruitment and a free review of your recruitment and selection methods to ensure the right staff will be employed.