assessment & development centre design

Assessment centres are an excellent vehicle for managing volume recruitment activities & ensuring high quality, motivated & enthusiastic employees. The advantages are;

• Gives the organisation a chance to assess candidates against a wide range of skills & disciplines.
• Allows organisations to assess multiple candidates against specific performance criteria.
• Saves money in the long term as there is a 65% likelihood of hiring the right person versus less than 30% using only a competency based interview process.
• Requires less of the hiring managers time.
• Enables organisations to collect enough data on candidates to be able to make job offers on the day.
• Is a one-stop shop for candidates who get to meet more people within the organisation without having to attend numerous interviews/meetings.
• Gives candidates an opportunity to be furnished with company information, understand the culture & values of the organisation while assessing the company.
• The exercised simulate much of what candidates will actually be doing on the job they get to see what it could be like to do the job.
• Gives candidates more of an opportunity to demonstrate competence & enables them to receive comprehensive feedback of development needs.

The design & development of the centres is divided into 2 phases as follows;

phase one design & preparation

• Design & development of assessment centres.
• Training & coaching of assessors.
• Preparation for assessment centres.
• Development of competencies for specific positions.
• Development of assessment centre project plan.
• Select exercises to assess competencies.
• Book venue.
• Design format & duration of the 2 assessment centres.
• Create briefing notes for candidates.
• Create assessor packs.
• Create evaluation forms for all exercises.
• Create candidate & assessor timetables & streams.
• Organise & prepare stationery/equipment requirements.

phase two delivery of assessment centre

• Train assessors (1 day prep/ 1 day training).
• Facilitate assessment centres.
• Score psychometric & ability tests.