psychometric assessment services FAQ
When should Testing be used?
Testing can be used in a range of situations. Some of the most common purposes are outlined below.
Selection of personnel for your business
Psychological profiling can provide you with an in-depth and comprehensive picture of potential employees. Information can be supplied around aptitudes including critical reasoning, verbal skills and numerical reasoning. Personality traits such as emotional stability, people skills, leadership ability and motivation can also be assessed.
Talent Management and Career Planning
The psych testing team can assist your business in the delivery of Psychometric Assessment for existing employees to support your internal selection decisions. This can aid decisions around promotion of internal staff to leadership positions or to new roles.
Leadership Selection (internal and external candidates)
Leadership profiling enables you to assess those individuals who have leadership potential within your business. The detailed information provided illuminates your leader’s existing areas of strength and those areas for which further development is warranted.
Team Styles
Locher can also deliver psychometric assessment to assess team performance and styles, or integrate this tool into your team building exercises for an interesting and innovative approach to training and development.
Career Assessment
Psychological profiling may also be used to inform an individuals career planning or transition. Locher Human Resources can work closely with your staff, tailoring the assessment to this role and your organisation’s needs with the most appropriate assessment looking at personality, reasoning, leadership and technical skills tests.
The benefits of Psychometric assessment include -
- Identifies candidate’s strengths and limitations in relation to a specific role;
- Assists with targeted reference checking by identifying ‘red flags’ that may require further investigation;
- Assists with successfully managing the individual if they are appointed to the role (very relevant in today’s candidate short market);
- Assists with final decision making where there are 2 or more closely matched candidates; and
- Provides legally defensible evidence for decision making.
What types of tests are available?
Locher has a comprehensive range of assessment tools using SHL, Genesys and other test products. Locher has great expertise in tailoring the test battery to meet the client need. The range of tools is broad but they may be divided into the following categories –
- Personality
- Leadership style
- Interpersonal style
- Team style
- Ability to manage stress
- Communication skills
- Emotional Intelligence
- Reasoning Abilities
- Verbal
- Numerical
- Abstract Reasoning
- Technical Abilities
- Verbal Comprehension
- Numerical Computation
- Visual Estimation
- Mechanical Comprehension
- Technical Understanding
- Fault Diagnosis
- Spatial Recognition
- Sales Skills
- Sales potential
- Call reluctance
- Ability to make sales pitches
- Presentation skills
How do I request an assessment?
Please refer to our online request form.
