Selection
Success in an increasingly competitive, global marketplace requires selecting world-class talent. Superior people create the ultimate competitive advantage - one that cannot be readily emulated by competitors. The Center helps clients implement valid and legally defensible selection and certification strategies to enhance individual performance, reduce turnover, and improve the bottom line. Selection strategies include:
Validated Pre-employment Testing
- Demonstrates the ability of tests to predict actual job performance and help assure legal defensibility
- Can include custom test development or validation of off-the-shelf tests
- Delivers comprehensive documentation of validity to conform to EEOC requirements
Competency-based interviewing
- Provides a behaviorally based selection interviewing process aligned with your organization's competencies
- Includes development of questions and objective interpretation guidelines
- Focuses on both core and job-specific competencies
- Delivers a customized interview guide
- Includes interviewer training and train-the-trainer options
Individual Assessment
- Enables in-depth assessment for selecting or promoting management-level candidates; tailored to the job and to the candidate
- Incorporates a battery of tests/questionnaires and an in-depth, competency-based interview to assess cognitive ability, emotional intelligence, team skills, and leadership and management skills
- Delivers a comprehensive report that outlines candidates' backgrounds, strengths, developmental needs, placement recommendations and developmental plans
Assessment Centers
- Enable a comprehensive assessment of leadership and management competencies often used for promotional decision making, succession planning, and leadership development
- Utilize a series of exercises (e.g., in-basket, team problem solving, employee counseling) to simulate actual job requirements
- Deliver in-depth reports on individuals and groups that indicate strengths, developmental needs, placement recommendations, and developmental recommendations
