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Testing and Assessments

KAM through one of our managing partners, Penny Kavanagh, was the first to introduce ability tests, personality profiles and assessment centres to Romania. KAM uses a broad range of products from SHL to support our professional search services, training services, as well as the identification of high potential/leaders for your organization.

We offer the following tools to support your company’s needs:

Ability Tests
Occupational Personality Questionnaire Reports
Assesment Centre for middle to senior management level, high potential employees and assessing internal future leaders.

1. Ability Tests

Ability tests are designed to be used at any stage in the hiring process or employment cycle, and are appropriate for use at all levels of your organisation. The range of ability tests includes:

Numerical – Measures a candidate’s ability to make correct decisions or inferences from numerical or statistical data.
Verbal – Measures ability to evaluate the logic of various kinds of argument presented in written form.
Inductive – Tests a candidate’s ability to work flexibly with unfamiliar information and find solutions.
Checking - Measures a candidate’s ability to compare information quickly and accurately.
Calculation - Measures a candidate’s ability to add, subtract, divide and multiply numbers quickly and accurately.

Specialized tests are available when hiring or assessing sales, customer service and IT employees. Ask us about these.

2 Occupational Personality Questionnaire Reports

The Occupational Personality Questionnaire Report (OPQ) is designed to provide businesses with information on an employee’s behavioural style and how it is likely to impact their performance at work. The reports produced from the OPQ results can benefit organisations in several ways:

Identifying the best-fit candidates for a role
Identifying future leaders
Building and developing effective teams
Recruiting high calibre sales professionals.

By using personality tests early on in the interview process you can quickly identify the most relevant candidates for the job by finding out key information about their working behaviour, such as:

How they will fit in with your working environment
How effectively they work as part of a team
How closely they match the key competencies required for the role
Where their strengths lie and where they will need more development.

However, personality assessments can be used at any stage of the employee lifecycle, not just for recruitment, and are an effective tool for assessing an employee’s development needs and planning for the future.

We love the SHL product because it is based on work styles, not clinical results.

3. Assessment Centre

Assessment tools will look at candidates' potential for leadership, their fit against current or future competency requirements, their behaviour, and finally any required development needs. There are a number of products and services to help identify your future leaders including:

Occupational Personality Questionnaires to identify potential and help select candidates with the right competencies
Advanced Managerial Tests to pinpoint the required numerical, inductive and verbal abilities in existing talent
Simulation Exercises to simulate real life workplace scenarios and uncover behaviour in different situations
Scenarios to assess levels of judgement in candidates to improve performance in the future.

Using these services, KAM can provide consulting services in helping you identify company core competencies, identify high potential employees and future leaders and create a development plan to ensure leadership bench strength for your organization. Call us for a meeting to discuss your company’s needs.

Many of the SHL products can be administered in the Romanian language. Ask us about using ability tests, personality questionnaires or assessments in your organization.