Screen, Select, Develop

With today’s emphasis on leaner workplace practices, each employee plays a critical role and each new hire presents an opportunity to increase an organisation’s performance. An organisation’s success or failure relies to a large degree on its skill in recruitment and selection, and its capacity to retain and leverage talent of the highest calibre. Psychometric testing is one of the most objective and valid means of assessing an individual’s potential and suitability for a role. Used effectively, psychometric assessments can enable you to recruit, develop and retain top talent for your organisation.

What does a successful candidate look like? How do you ensure you are measuring the right attributes in a candidate to evaluate potential performance?

TestGrid has several online assessment methods and tools to help you measure for:

1. Personality and Behaviours
2. Cognitive ability
3. Skills and competence
4. Potential for improvement
5. Suitability for specific roles
6. Best candidate/organisation fit.

Measuring Behaviours

The behavioural style that an individual brings to an organisation can have a significant impact on a range of business factors, including culture, interpersonal and group dynamics, and overall business performance. Measuring an individual’s behavioural style during the recruitment and selection process provides you with an in-depth understanding of their competency potential, behavioural fit with role requirements, and degree of alignment between the individual and the organisational culture.

TestGrid provides a range of Behavioural Assessment tools and personality assessments to measure and identify your candidates’ and employees’ behavioural work patterns, preferred work styles, values, and motivation. These assessments utilise well-validated models and theories to provide reliable information about a candidate’s suitability for a particular work environment. They also have empirical research demonstrating strong links to employee performance.

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Behavioural Assessments provide valuable information to help build effective teams and develop your employees. TestGrid’s range of Behavioural Assessments allow you to choose the most suitable assessment/s for your specific industry and the job roles within it. Using suitable Behavioural assessments enable insight into whether or not a candidate will culturally fit into an organisation. It reflects their competency potential and suggests areas for further investigation and development. A number of different norm groups are available for use to ensure meaningful comparisons among candidates, and to further ensure fair recruitment and selection decisions are made.

Executive, Professional and Management Recruitment

TestGrid has targeted assessment solutions to assist with the selection and development of senior executive, professional and management roles. Our comprehensive

To speak to a TestGrid consultant about which products will be most suited to your context, or how we can assist in the implementation of these products, please contact us For an example of the personality testing products TestGrid offers, click here.

Emotional Intelligence is a powerful predictor of employee performance. Individuals with high emotional intelligence are able to perceive, understand and manage emotions, enhancing their personal effectiveness, decision-making, confidence and motivation.

An extensive body of research demonstrates that employees with higher emotional intelligence tend to outperform employees with lower emotional intelligence. This is particularly evident in leadership/ managerial and sales roles. Some research findings include:

1. Staff in an Australian organisation undergoing an emotional intelligence development program outperformed other staff by 12%, achieving an average budget of approximately $530,000 compared with average budget of $460,000 for those who did not attend the emotional intelligence development program
2. Sales staff selected based on Emotional Intelligence for L’Oreal sold approximately $91,370 more than other sales professionals, resulting in a net revenue increase of $2,558,360
3. Sales staff from a large insurance company with high Emotional Intelligence sold policies worth an average of $114,000 compared with an average of $54,000 by sales staff with lower Emotional Intelligence
4. Partners in a multinational consulting company with high emotional intelligence produced 1.2 million dollars more profit from their accounts than their counterparts with lower emotional intelligence

The value of understanding how prospective or existing employees perceive, understand and manage emotions in the workplace can be seen across a range of business skills including the following:

1. Networking ability - can the candidate meet and greet appropriately and effectively?
2. Communication skills - imperative for relationship building with both colleagues and clients, negotiating and leading and directing teams
3. Stress management and maintenance of professional manner
4. Maintaining healthy, trusting relationships and fostering of positive attitudes in employees.

TestGrid provides emotional intelligence tools to assist in the recruitment and selection or development of employees. To speak to a TestGrid consultant about the products that will best suit your context, please contact us;

Effective talent management in turbulent market conditions is crucial for organisational success. Now more than ever, your best performers are the ones who will make the most difference. This has implications for all of your organisation’s human resource management projects, starting with recruitment and selection, all the way through to developing, retaining and transitioning employees through their life cycle with your company.

TestGrid provides a range of online assessment solutions, psychometric testing and consulting support tailored to your needs, to ensure your organisation is using the most current and sound psychometric testing methodologies on the market. Specifically, TestGrid can help:

1. In the Recruitment and Selection of new employees
2. In the Development of new and current employees
3. With employee evaluation
4. In the Retaining of high performers
5. In the Transitioning of employees into different aspects of the business or by restructuring with precision.

At TestGrid we are committed to assisting you through your talent management needs and can customise a battery of personality testing and aptitude testing tools specifically designed to assist the requirements of whatever process you are undertaking.

TestGrid assists clients to maximise the potential of each new employee by utilising any data collected during the online assessment process in training and development programs.

Planning for the future of each organisation's talent pool, TestGrid provides online assessment tools and talent management solutions that identify potential and develop future leaders.

Recognising that employees often reach points in their career where they require some motivation or development, TestGrid provides psychometric testing, online assessment products and consulting tailored to each individual’s needs, for effective talent management.

Customising development plans incorporating online assessment products for leaders is an effective way to ensure that employees from the top down are tapping into their potential.

Each organisation generally has a mix of "A, B and C" players (i.e. A's are the talent, B’s are the team players and C’s will likely be transitioned out). TestGrid provides psychometric testing solutions to ensure understanding of each of these crucial segments of employees and how to maximise potential for each.

Self perception is often inaccurate. Many people have a tendency to overestimate their strengths, and underestimate their weaknesses. Others underestimate their strengths, and overestimate their weaknesses. Because self perception is often flawed, it is crucial to get feedback from others on performance. TestGrid offers a range of 180 and 360 feedback solutions for the development of employees and teams.

Investing time and effort in employees to assist them in their professional growth is often linked to more committed employees and consequently greater organisational rewards.

1. Keeping current employees motivated and performing at their potential, by understanding and providing for their motives, values, and career path options within your organisation
2. Providing employees who have transitioned out of the business with the opportunity to move forward in their careers by assisting them to understand their own career path needs. Meanwhile ensuring your organisation’s reputation is upheld.

To speak to a TestGrid consultant about the psychometric testing solution most suited to your context, please contact us.

Platform that provides a high degree of componentisation to enable greater reuse over and above J2EE.

Framework with pre-built standard services, which provides common use cases that are required by most J2EE applications.

A Platform that is designed to allow an application to scale in the future both in terms of volume of usage and from additional unforeseen requirements

The component architecture of both the on-demand Web User Interface and Channel Partner Integration Service are broken into layers or tiers. These layers provide abstractions of underlying implementation, each layer hiding the implementation details of layer below. The advantages of such abstraction allow for easier developments, maintenance for high performance and scalability (both horizontally and vertically).This allows for the support of distributed architecture, concurrency, transactions support, load balancing, security, resource pooling and easier component reuse.

The TestGrid Online Assessment Platform Components consist of the following:

1. On-demand Channel Partner Integration Services
2. On-demand Web User Interface.
3. A J2EE container for hosting Web User Interface and Channel Partner Integration Service
4. J2EE Application Development Framework to provide a standard components and development acceleration tools to build and grow TestGrid Online Assessment Platform
5. Relational Database Management System for storing all TestGrid system and transaction data.

The Channel Partner Integration Services provides the TestGrid Online Assessment Platform to securely and seamlessly allows its channel and external service providers to interact at a B2B level. This includes the on-demand remote executing of most of TestGrid key business services such as assessment creation, reporting generation and system administration.

Pipeline Channel Adapters

Channel Partner Integration Services provides a series of channel adapters supporting various forms of transport mechanism (HTTP/S, SOAP/Web Services, HR-XML).The channel adapter allows for the easy integration with many Applicant Tracking and HR-IS systems by unifying the received messages protocol in a common, message-based communication mechanism.

Request Mapper

Request Mapper is a sophisticated transformation, routing and rules-processing system. The Request Mapper simplifies the process of sending and receiving messages across distributed applications transparently by mapping, transforming, validating and routing data according to rules.

Business Process Logic

The business logic tier of the Channel Partner Integration Services performs the core message processing.All of TestGrid application business logic is encapsulated inside Java EJBs.

Workflow State Manager

The Workflow State Manager is a collection of Stateless Session Beans that transforms the requests into TestGrid business processes events. The received request will initiate business events that call methods against the relevant Business Process Logic EJBs. The transaction lifecycle is monitored and controlled by the Workflow State Manager.

The future of the TestGrid platform takes shape in the realisation of the transition from a pure online assessment centre into a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model. New and exciting features will be delivered through the TestGrid platform on a recurring subscription basis.

The multi-tenant architecture model will ensure that clients can customise how they receive the features and services that TestGrid provides. For instance, clients will be able to customize the look and feel of the application to match their own branding. The platform will leverage the power of configurable workflows to meet differences in client requirements. Clients will have fine grained control over the roles and access rights of their users and administrators.

The nature of SaaS ensures that new features will be available to clients more frequently due to the sharing of the code base. The centralisation of feature deployment means that clients do not need to download any patches or updates for their infrastructure. SaaS provides clients all the benefits of having an expensive onsite customised application without any of the drawbacks. TestGrid hosts the application and stores all individual client data, meaning that all clients need to use the platform is a web browser. There is therefore no need for the client to invest in expensive hardware and infrastructure just to use the application. By taking advantage of virtualisation along with multi-tenancy the TestGrid platform will be scalable to meet user demands without the need for any alteration of the software architecture.

The revelation of Web 2.0 has provided the development community many with many options for delivering high performance and high quality interactive web content. In order to provide the best possible experience to clients, the TestGrid platform will leverage from the latest RIA (Rich Internet Application) technology. This will enable the platform to render rich media content such as sound, video and animation. The extensive range of widgets provided along, with fine-tuned control over component behaviours will enable the TestGrid platform to render all future user requirements.