26 Oct 2010

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Unskilled
Finding amply qualified candidates to fulfil a specific job description and skill set is not always the simple task. When you ask whether or not a candidate is proficient in a particular skill, you will most likely receive the answer you are looking for: yes. However, surveys have implicated that 1/3 of job candidates tell little white lies during the recruitment process. How do you know...
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27 May 2010

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Implement Interview
It is beneficial for all employers to implement skills testing during the interview process. This allows employers to rate the candidates and decide whether or not they possess the ability to perform the job duties that they are interviewing for. Job candidates are hungrier than ever to obtain employment, and it is important that companies hire carefully in order to protect themselves. T...
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30 Sep 2009

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Success of Employees
analysedEvidence for the Relationship between the Big 5 and Academic Achievement Many different personality traits have been linked to academic performance. Since the Five Factor Model, or "Big 5", has enjoyed prominence in the personality literature (Digman, 1990), as well as being recognised by the economics literature (Borghans et al., 2008), we believe it is valuable to organise t...
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29 Sep 2009

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Five Factor Test
an Personality Assessment and the Big 5 Personality assessment has a long history in psychology. Hundreds, maybe thousands of personality traits or constructs have been suggested over the years. But in the last 20 years the field has essentially reached a consensus – there is a much smaller number of independent dimensions underlying the myriad of constructs suggested (Digman, 1990; G...
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29 Sep 2009

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Time Management
Published in the Sydney Morning Herald. Out of Time? Researchers at the University of Sydney's Department of Psychology have found that being a good time manager is closely related to how conscientious a person is, and that this may be a personality trait rather than a skill one can acquire. Good time managers are also likely to be early birds, and slightly more prone to worrying....
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13 Aug 2009

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Personality Assesment
This paper examines and summarises the big five-factor model, a tool used for studying personality. One of the long-held goals of psychology has been to establish a model that can conveniently describe human personality, with the intent to use this model in improving the general understanding of personality. Currently, a handful of models have risen to prominence, and have thus far...
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24 Jul 2009

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Psychometric Testing

As published in Computer Weekly

More than 70% of top companies now use psychometric tests – and there is no way to trick them in order to get a job says job agency body the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. They also warn that trying to guess the “right” answer to test questions is not only impossible but will probably reveal someone as a liar.

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22 Jul 2009

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Emotional Intelligence
How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationships, and Our Mental Health Emotional intelligence (or EI) — the ability to perceive, regulate, and communicate emotions, and to understand emotions in ourselves and others — has been the subject of best-selling books, magazine cover stories, and countless media mentions. It is widely touted as a solution for problems ranging from relationship ...
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25 Jun 2009

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Identify Leaders

,,”When hiring for a position, taking into account the various interview techniques at the disposal of the average Director, Executive, HR Manager or Business Owner, we can expect that there is about a 70%  chance that the person employed will be an average or good employee.”

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