Selection

Assessing for Selection and Succession

Much has been written about the value of hiring and promoting good people. Organisational success, however you define it, is highly dependent on the quality of the people that you hire and promote. The ability to objectively and accurately identify potential high performers, and distinguish them from those who will add less value, is a critical component in driving a successful business.

From your next generation to your existing executive leaders, Benchmarking Assessment Psychologists can support your organisation during the selection and succession process. We typically work with clients in a number of ways:

Role Definition: Identifying the key, high-priority competencies for effective performance in the role and organisational culture, specifying the assessments instruments and processes required to accurately and objectively measure the identified requirements, and to ensure that the role requirements fairly reflects the needs of potential multiple stakeholders in the role.
Expert Assessment and Interviewing: In addition to best industry practice in psychological and ability testing using leading psychometricians, we offer a panel of both industry and assessment experts who can either supplement and support your existing interview process or operate as an independent assessment panel to externally validate or challenge your potential external or internal hires. We can assess before the interview or final shortlist phase, identifying areas for exploration during interview and specific questions to utilise. We produce full reports with recommendations and potential development opportunities during the critical early months of the new hire.
Assessment Centres: We can design and deliver a wide range of assessment centres options, typically for applications such as selection, redeployment and development. Clients can choose from a range of bespoke solutions with customised assessments or highly standardised and scalable solutions that can be used for quickly and effectively assessing large groups.

Benchmarking Assessment Psychologists have a significant degree of expertise in industry-specific assessment in areas such as financial services, aviation/aerospace, emergency services and public safety positions, and similar roles that require highly specialised instruments and assessment methods.

Assessment and Selection Audit:

Organisations occasionally will want to objectively evaluate the quality, relevance and sophistication of their assessment process and the instruments they use and rely on to identify their future talent. Industry best practice is constantly evolving with new instruments and more current approaches being constantly brought to market.

Benchmarking Assessment Psychologists can conduct a brief but thorough and objective evaluation of your full assessment and succession evaluation process, which can include the assessments you use, the methods you use to identify and measure key competencies, and the consistency of use of these processes within the organisation. We typically issue recommendations in areas such as instrument choice, accreditation and training needs, selection process definition and roll-out, and any other elements required to bring your organisation in line with international industry best practices.

Leadership Assessment Sample Report
We have recently introduced the new Leadership Assessment report, which is designed specifically to support the selection process. It includes the leadership behaviours of the candidate, a detailed explanation of their profile and a comprehensive list of interview questions that you can use to explore the specific profile of each individual candidate. Click the title above to download a sample report, or contact us for more details.

Inidvidual Directions sample report
Ideal for assessment for selection, this tool looks at 17 underlying motivational factors, and will give you a very strong sense of the intrinsic and stable features of the candidate as well as how to motivate them and drive top performance in their role.