Technology Resourcing has recently partnered with one of the market leaders in psychometric and behavioural assessment and intelligence testing to strengthen our service offerings to our clients. 

With our own in-house Certified Practitioner, we are able to offer these additional services at reduced rates for our clients.

Adding value to your interview process
It’s often stated that the cost of bringing someone into the business is approx 2.5X – 3X their salary, so the cost of getting it wrong and ensuring you have the right person in the right job is has serious financial implications.

All too often organisations are very good at verifying specific technical abilities and will frequently make hiring decisions on the ‘likeability’ factor.  The factors that are given less consideration are personality fit, fluid intelligence and emotional intelligence.  If you are in a hiring capacity, assessment of these 3 factors provides you with an excellent insight into a potential new recruit’s preferred work behaviours and intelligence and can add real value to the interview and recruitment process.

So why are these factors important and where do they fit in?
Personality – not all personalities and behaviours will fit the role for which you are hiring i.e, your top business development individual is likely to be very different from your financial controller. Conducting a Personality Profile Assessment will provide;

• An accurate indication of behavioural preferences
• Indicate working strengths and their value to your organisation
• Identify preferred communication styles and how these might be modified for greater effect
• Understanding of the impact of an individuals behavioural preferences on team members and work colleague 

Fluid intelligence is the measure of someone’s ability to think quickly and adeptly. This might not be important for someone in a very steady, methodical role with little customer interaction but for an employee that is required to spend much of their time interfacing with clients, problem solving or operating on the customer front line – this is critical. The General Intelligence Assessment measures number, speed and accuracy, perceptual speed, verbal reasoning, spatial visualisation and word meaning.  More importantly it provides indicators of;

• Whether the individual can think on their feet
• The ability to cope with the mental demands of the role
• Whether the candidate might be a high flyer
• Problem solving capabilities
• How well the individual will respond to training and pick up new tasks

Emotional Intelligence is an individual’s ability to understand and manage their own emotions and how they might interpret and deal with the emotions of others. Once again, this might not be important for an individual working by them self for much of the day but for individuals working within a team, this is valuable information.

Technology Resourcing is able to conduct all of the above assessments to help you get the most out of your recruitment process and finding the ‘right’ people for your business.

 Please feel free to give Ian a call on 01483 302211 to discuss further.