Highly regarded human resources and psychometric testing company People Central has over 200 corporate clients in New Zealand, and has just 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 (employees 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 touch with the requirements of business and clients. Business wanting to take on a new staff member can decrease the risk of making a poor recruitment call, by utilizing executives as Folks Central to do the psychometric testing. Another common corporate usage of psychometric testing is to identify talent in the team. Within 24 hours of calling People Central they can prepare for tests for your applicants, if that be online or under supervised testing conditions. With Folk Central you can expect results the following day.
Of concern is that in NZ the psychometric testing industry is unregulated and is completely full of non-qualified execs and free online testing, which can end up in expensive business mistakes. Unfortunately in New Zealand there are several 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, to explain they are not free. Another misconception is that psychometric testing is just for white collar positions, but there is basically a decent range of products on the market especially for every ability 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 vital factor is making sure that the test uses a New Zealand norm group, otherwise the results are likely to be fooling due to cultural differences, and this has been a big factor in great candidates losing out on the job, and a poor recruitment end result for business.
At People Central psychometric testing is conducted by qualified professionals, with a background in human resources, and in touch with the requirements of business and clients. Business wanting to take on a new staff member can decrease the risk of making a poor recruitment call, by utilizing executives as Folks Central to do the psychometric testing. Another common corporate usage of psychometric testing is to identify talent in the team. Within 24 hours of calling People Central they can prepare for tests for your applicants, if that be online or under supervised testing conditions. With Folk Central you can expect results the following day.
Of concern is that in NZ the psychometric testing industry is unregulated and is completely full of non-qualified execs and free online testing, which can end up in expensive business mistakes. Unfortunately in New Zealand there are several 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, to explain they are not free. Another misconception is that psychometric testing is just for white collar positions, but there is basically a decent range of products on the market especially for every ability 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 vital factor is making sure that the test uses a New Zealand norm group, otherwise the results are likely to be fooling due to cultural differences, and this has been a big factor in great candidates losing out on the job, and a poor recruitment end result for business.
About the Author:
Set up in 1999 by Steve Evans, People Central now has 16 staff located around the country and the company often partners up with corporates for across the nation recruitment drives, team development, or to run multi-site redundancies. Folks Central also has associates around the planet, and is well versed in recruiting staff from Australia, the United Kingdom and Asia for NZ clients.