30 May 2025

psychometric assessment in the workplace
In today’s competitive business landscape, finding the right talent is more challenging—and more crucial—than ever before. Traditional recruitment methods often fall short in identifying candidates who will truly excel in their roles. This is where psychometric testing is revolutionising the recruitment process, providing human resources professionals with data-driven insights that go fa...

27 Mar 2025

Psychometrics vs Interviews
When you’re building a team, the goal is simple: hire the right people for the right roles. But in practice, that’s anything but easy. Most hiring managers still rely heavily on interviews—but are interviews the most reliable way to assess a candidate? Or is there a smarter way to hire? Enter psychometric testing: a data-driven, scientifically validated approach to measuring personali...

04 Jun 2018

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...

29 Sep 2009

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....

13 Aug 2009

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...

24 Jul 2009

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.

25 Jun 2009

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.”

21 Jan 2008

Job Performance
An independent study investigating the relation of the "Big Five" personality dimensions (Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism) to three job performance criteria (job proficiency, training proficiency, and personnel data) for five occupational groups (professionals, police, managers, sales, and skilled/semi-skilled) is summarised below....