Assessment centres are a proven and accurate way of identifying talent.

To ensure that the right mix of assessments is applied in the most relevant and efficient way for your organisation, we offer consultancy around the selection process, in particular the design and management of assessment centres.

Our aim is to use business psychology to deliver a flexible solution that your HR team and your managers can sustain, with maximum impact.

• Design - what's the best way of assessing candidates?
• Delivery - how do I deliver an assessment centre that is efficient, promotes my employer brand, and sorts the great from the 'good enough'?

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Design

What's the best way of assessing candidates?

OPP offers:

• Bespoke exercise design
• Selection of appropriate off-the-shelf tools:- for example:
  • ABLE Series
  • Saville Consulting Aptitude Assessments
  • Critical Reasoning Skills Series
  • 16PF Personality Questionnaire
• assessor skills training
• benchmarking sessions
• development of supporting materials (timetables, tailored assessor, candidate, role-player timetables)
• advice on assessment centre logistics

Delivery

How do I deliver an Assessment Centre that is efficient, promotes my employer brand, and sorts the great from the 'good enough'?

OPP offers:

• Provision of key people who make it happen: Lead Assessors, Assessors, Coordinators
• Fully managed solution anywhere in UK & Ireland:
• Candidate briefing
• Coordination of assessment activities and exercise administration
• Provision of quality assurance and performance benchmarking throughout the day

Assessment of key criteria via a range of exercises:

• Aptitude assessments
• Personality questionnaires and Structured Interviews
• Presentations
• Biographical Interviews
• Group Exercises
• Role Play Exercises
• Competency Based Interviews
• Business case Analysis Exercises
• Fact finding exercises
• In-tray Exercises

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