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What is an Occupational Psychometric Assessment?

The objective measurement of skills and knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits and educational achievement for occupational purposes.

This form of measurement is primarily employed to assess employment suitability, including company-candidate fit, or assess staff members ongoing fitness during organisational change, or for job change or promotional reasons. The aim of psychometric tests is to gain an accurate bearing of an individual’s/candidate’s cognitive abilities and personality/behavioural style.

There are three main areas that the tests explore: capabilities, aptitude for the job and to determine whether the personality of the individual undergoing the test fits in with the vision of the organisation.

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Aptitude Tests

Aptitude tests aim to assess a specific or general set of skills. Categories found within this group include:

Used to identify how the individual interprets data often via a combination of written and statistical information presented in reports, graphs or charts.

This can also be used to assess basic mathematical abilities.

Used as a way to determine ability to evaluate detailed written information so as to make an informed decision.

These require the individual to identify trends or patterns, typically using diagrammatic information.

Aims to evaluate an individual’s skills in reaching a conclusion. Provided with some information and then asked to make a decision on what has been provided. As such, these tests are often known as deductive reasoning tests.

Assesses an individual’s ability to quickly identify and errors in complex data sets such as codes, or combinations of alpha-numeric characters.

The type of test that will be undertaken will be determined by the job type and sector. For example inductive reasoning assessments are used to evaluate candidates by applying for jobs in science, IT or other roles where advanced technical skills may be needed. These tests usually compromise of multiple-choice questions and a specified timeframe in which to complete them. Inductive testing can result in the identification of new solutions and strategies to solve the issue, which is why these types of tests are used in many firms who specialise in technological innovation.

Alternatively, deductive reasoning tests are used to assess a more complex type of logical thinking, as they will provide an individual with a series of rules and the individual will need to apply these to a given situation to determine what would happen.

Skills tests represent a way for employers to evaluate how quickly someone can learn a new skill to competently carry out a particular role. Depending on the job, the aptitude test may include something such as designing a basic web page (if you are applying to be a designer) or a financial modelling task (if you are applying for a quantitive role in finance). Both capability and skills tests are assessed through paper-based exercises consisting of multiple-choice questions completed under exam conditions. Increasingly, psychometric tests are completed online using specialist systems that removes requirement for a paper-based test.

Personality assessments enable employers to evaluate the suitability of an individual based on their behaviour and the way in which they approach their work. This will be used to determine how well someone fits into the organisation and the culture of the business. Responses will often be cross-referenced with those of a top-performing employee or successful manager, which will be an indication as to whether an individual shares the same characteristics.

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When approaching any type of psychometric test, it is really important that individuals do not try and give answers that they think the employer will want to read, as it can usually be seen when candidates try to do this. If an individual is the right match for the business, they should find the tests relatively straightforward.

Above all, individuals undertaking tests need to be true to themselves, take their time and answer questions honestly. They need to approach the tests logically and try to prepare as much as possible before taking them.