Psychometric evaluation and potential assessment
Service to organizations
Make an informed decision with maximum objectivity.
As a recruiter, executive or human resources manager in your organization, you want to make sure you’re recruiting the right candidateswhen you have vacancies to fill within your company.
In this sense, psychometric and potential assessments are invaluable tools for evaluating and selecting candidates on an objective basis, and for ensuring that they match the skills profile sought by your organization. and ensure that they match the skills profile your organization is looking for.
To date, Groupe GCRH’s guidance counsellors have worked with several hundred managers from a wide variety of backgrounds to help them with their recruitment process.
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Characteristics of psychometric and potential assessments
Generally made up of competency validation interviews and employment test batteries, psychometric and potential assessments aim to objectively measure various aspects of an individual or group of individuals, such as..:
- the personality
- behavior
- orientation skills
- cognitive skills
- emotional intelligence
- interests and values
Assessments are used in a number of contexts, including :
- Selection process
- Justification for granting a promotion
- Succession planning
- Career change or reorientation
Draw up a precise profile of a candidate’s skills
While psychometric assessments are used to produce a report on a candidate’s skills, potential assessments go slightly further, giving recruiters the opportunity to draw up an accurate profile of a candidate’s skills for a particular position. The two tools go hand in hand, with the aim of helping recruiters make informed, science-based hiring decisions.
Psychometric recruitment tests
Various tools and tests are available to establish an individual’s psychological profile or ensure that they possess the skills or knowledge required for a position. These tools can be used as part of an orientation process for a return to school, but are also recommended in a selection process. Depending on the type of worker to be hired, certain tests are more appropriate. Here are some examples of tests that can be used:
Personality tests
- Myers Briggs
- NEO-PI-3
- STRONG
- AFC Holland
- etc.
Aptitude or skills tests
- Management basket
- Mechanical sense Bennett
- etc.
A personalized psychometric assessment service for companies
At GCRH Group, we go further than the recruitment tests and job personality tests available on the Web. All our tests are carried out by certified career advisors, so you can be sure that the tests you choose are tailored to your needs and carried out by professionals.
Our psychometric assessment service includes :
- Test selection and administration
- Adapting tests to the variables and aspects to be measured
- Face-to-face interviews to corroborate test data, if necessary
- Drafting of a personalized report that situates the candidate in relation to each element that the employer wishes to measure
- Transmitting the report and presenting it to the employer
- Qualitative and quantitative data analysis
- Personalized hiring recommendations
Our reports are also accompanied by :
- Analysis of other skills identified in assessments
- Elements/paths to help integrate people according to their personality (pre-employment context)
- Elements to motivate candidates or prepare the next generation
- Any other relevant data
Advantages and benefits of psychometric assessments and assessments of potential for companies
Eventually, our service will enable you to:
- Establish a typical psychological profile of the candidate
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- Identify training and development needs
- Compare several candidates or employees on the same basis
- Reduce costs related to bad hires
Thanks to their training in psychometrics, our guidance counsellors can help you..:
- Save time and money by hiring the right people
- Reduce training costs
- Create a qualified and motivated workforce for the positions to be filled
- Reduce turnover
- Increase the productivity of your company’s employees