Wednesday, June 12, 2013

People Central Awarded Psychometric Testing Contract with Kiwi Ministry

By Colin James


Highly admired human resources and psychometric testing company People Central has over 200 corporate clients in New Zealand, and has recently been awarded a Ministry of Social Development contract to help Hawkes Bay people facing redundancy, get back into the workforce. People Central made an enormous impression on the Ministry in 2012, when 80% of their referrals (persons who were facing redundancy) were back in work in around 2 months.

At People Central psychometric testing is conducted by qualified professionals, with a background in human resources, and in close contact with the needs of business and clients. Business needing to take on a new staff member can reduce the risk of making a poor recruitment decision, by utilizing professionals such as People Central to do the psychometric testing. Another common business use of psychometric testing is to recognize talent in the team. Within 24 hours of calling People Central they can arrange for tests for your candidates, if that be online or otherwise under supervised testing conditions. With People Central you may expect results the following day.

Of concern is that in NZ the psychometric testing industry is unregulated and is completely full of non-qualified professionals and free online testing, which can cause dear business mistakes. Unfortunately in New Zealand there are a few well used psychometric products that are little better than horoscopes.

According to People Central, the best psychometric tests have more than 20 years of empirical research behind them, in other words they aren't free. Another misinterpretation is that psychometric testing is only for white collar positions, there is however basically a reasonable range of products on the market specially for every talent level, its just that if the establishment offering the testing is not qualified then they may not be able to pick a test that is relevant to the job.

The final imperative factor is making certain that the test uses a New Zealand norm group, otherwise the results are going to be misleading due to cultural differences, and this has been a major factor in great candidates losing out on the job, and a poor recruitment end result for business.




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