06 Dec 2018

Blog
Anytime Interview PC
As of 2017, there were 4.8 candidates for each entry-level job available. Statistics are a bit more in favour of the candidate for jobs that are above entry-level. Either way, when you advertise a job opportunity, you'll no doubt get inundated with prospective employees. You may try and save your organisation some time by putting one person in charge of the screening process, and t...
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06 Dec 2018

Blog, Skills Testing
Employment Test
"How many cars travel across a bridge each day?" This isn't a trick question. It's an actual interview question Google asked a candidate in September of 2014. And it isn't just Google asking their potential employees interesting screening questions. More and more businesses are using screening questions and skills tests to augment their hiring processes. According to a global surve...
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30 Oct 2018

Employee Testing, Recruitment, Skills Testing, Specific & Custom Tests
Word Test
"After Web browsers Word is the most-used app on the planet; it's still the platinum standard in word processing. Nothing else even comes close" (PCMag, March 2013). Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft."  It's been in existence since 1983, and since that time has undergone 14 revisions, the most recent being Word 2013. It is the most widely used word pro...
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16 Jul 2018

Blog
Critical Excel Expert
From the time it was released during the 80's MS Excel has become one of the most widely used business tools. Critical business decisions are often based on Excel analyses. For this reason, it's one of the most important skills to confirm, prior to hiring. It is also one of the most embellished skills on resumes. Consider the common scenario where a candidate has been hired and has em...
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15 Jul 2018

Aptitude Testing, Blog, Employee Testing
Multitasking
When dividing attention between two tasks (Multitasking), people need to find the most efficient ways of allocating their attentional or processing resources between the tasks. It is reasonable to presume that people with higher levels of intelligence will be better able to allocate their processing resources efficiently. This was investigated in a study by Ben-Shakhar and Sheffer. Read ...
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01 Jul 2018

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Multitask Skills
Brown (1998) investigated the concept of "time-sharing" proposed in earlier work on multi-tasking by Fogarty (1982) . Fogarty (1982) describes time-sharing as a factor that emerges when two tasks are undertaken simultaneously. This sharing of time between the tasks is the extra factor over and above those associated with performing each of the tasks in isolation. In Brown's paper two ...
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04 Jun 2018

Aptitude Testing, Employee Testing, Executive Testing, Human Resources, Recruitment
Personality Assessment
In the world of personality assessment there are numerous tools that are used to measure and understand personality. A trait approach to personality has been in existence since the early 1900's, and it has been the aim of many researchers to identify which are the most useful underlying factors to consider - with numerous studies dedicated to this topic. Many of the largest and most r...
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04 Jun 2018

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Navigating
The rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) has created numerous opportunities for more flexible work options, also called telework. A report by Deloitte Access Economics predicted that flexible work created by the NBN would be one of the biggest structural changes to the labour market this decade, creating an additional 25,000 jobs by 2020. The research also found that almost 50...
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24 Feb 2018

Aptitude Testing, Blog, Employee Testing, Recruitment, RightPeople News
Sales Performance
In this article we look at Ambiverts, Extraverts, and Sales Job Performance and announce the new Accounts Payable and Receivable Test Sales Aptitude Personality Research Article Highlights Extraversion vs Introversion is one of the most studied personality dimensions. It was a long-held belief that extraversion would "take a person further" in business, particularly in sales. The mo...
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