Psychometrics and Assessment/Assessment centres
Assessment centres are the most accurate way to predict how well someone will perform within an organisation.
At the Neville Wharton Business Psychology Group we can both design and run assessment centre programmes. Assessment centres are not physical places - they are programmes of assessment which have been designed to provide a comprehensive overview of a person's strengths and development areas.
Assessment centre tasks typically include reasoning tests, personality questionnaires, behavioural event interviews and work-specific exercises (already developed or bespoke) such as group discussions, role-specific tasks, presentations and one-to-one role plays.
Key benefits of assessment centres are:
- Several participants and observers (assessors) are involved in the centre at once.
- Large numbers of candidates can be assessed for suitability at once.
- Decisions are made by pooling shared data and are therefore extremely objective.
- Assessment focuses on individual behaviour and allows a number of assessors different opportunities to observe such behaviour in differing settings.
- A wider range of skills can be assessed and in more detail than any other single method of selection.