What is executive assessment?
Professional assessment is simply a systematic process based on selected questionnaires, exercises and an interview, such as:-
- Personality and work style inventories
- Reasoning tests
- Situational exercises to simulate the target role
- Assessment Centres
- 360 degree feedback from work colleagues and/or customers
- Structured interviews
Doing professional assessments
- The results of a personality questionnaire need to be interpreted carefully and cross checked in an interview.
- Personality profiles can be inaccurate if candidates have poor self insight or try to create a good impression.
- Other exercises should be used, oral and written, to supplement personality questionnaires.
- An effective assessment depends on experienced judgement based on data from a number of sources.
- All assessment data should be discussed with candidates before any reports are written.
- Openness on the part of the assessor encourages more openness from candidates.
- Discussion of results allows the assessor to check initial findings in more depth by asking for examples.
- It is important to learn the meaning of specific indicators to candidates - their interpretation provides extra insight.
- A professional assessment report should be structured around the competency profile for the target job.
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