Axon Resourcing offers the Thomas International Personality Profile Analysis, as a psychometric tool that is excellent as an aide for interview and Personal Development Plan.

The PPA is considered to be quick and effective for both pre-selection and as an interview guide for selection as well as a tool to further understand employees at annual assessments.

PPA is a useful psychometric questionnaire for use in all roles from admin to executive roles. Completed by candidates in less than ten minutes, it is available both online and hard copy and can be delivered remotely or as part of an assessment centre.

PPA provides an accurate insight into how people behave at work answering questions such as: What are their strengths and limitations? Are they self starters? How do they communicate? What motivates them? PPA enables your people to become more aware of their work style. Only by improving their self awareness will they have the means to consolidate their working strengths and compensate for their behavioural limitations.

Insights gained from PPA will lead to a greater understanding of why your people behave the way they do and can be used to hone managers’ communication skills.

• Fast, accurate and cost effective
• Takes only 7-8 minutes to complete (online)
• Eliminates the need for guesswork
• Enables more effective people management

Behavioural assessments such as PPA can be used to solve a whole range of people issues in business:

• Recruitment: selecting people for jobs, whether they are external or internal candidates. Assessments can be used to create an initial short list (known as sifting), to decide on interview questions or to investigate essential characteristics of a job.
• Retention: PPA can help manage team relationships, resolve conflict, tailor training programmes and ensure people are in the right job for them. Staff feel valued in a positive work environment and so are less likely to leave.
• Training: assessments can identify strengths and limitations, pinpoint training needs and be used to evaluate the success of training courses.
• Development: this covers a huge area from individual to organisational development. PPA can be used as a platform to coach employees struggling with aspects of their job, put together high performance project teams, assist with change management or survey potential issues within a team, department or company.

PPA can be used to recruit new staff; identify people with the potential to be promoted and developed; counsel staff who are under-performing; put teams together; identify pressure points and areas of frustration within an organisation; decide on the best organisational structure and create incentive programmes that really motivate. It can be used in any decision about people individually or people in groups.

Research shows that interviews, CVs, references and application forms are very bad at predicting whether people will succeed. Interviews can be subjective because you will be hugely influenced by your prejudices, likes and dislikes without realising it. If you think back, you’ll remember the great candidate who proved to be a complete disaster. Assessments such as PPA are a way of making hard-headed business decisions. They will increase your bottom line by decreasing staff turnover, identifying talent and creating a more efficient and productive organisation.

This is combined into one test which assesses:

• Aptitude and ability
• Fluid intelligence
• Mental Horse power
• Arithmetic
• Perceptual speed and reasoning
• Numerical speed and reasoning
• Working memory
• Spatial orientation

Academic achievement whilst undoubtedly playing a large part in selection decisions is not a truly effective measure of a person's mental ability and potential. GIA is series of ‘ability’ rather than ‘intelligence’ tests and include: reasoning, perceptual speed, number speed and accuracy, spatial visualisation and word meaning.

• Fast, accurate and cost effective
• Takes 20-30 minutes to complete (online)

Answers Questions such as...

• Can this person think on their feet?
• Can they cope with the mental demands of the job?
• Could this person be a high flyer?
• Is this person a problem solver?
• To what degree can this person respond to training?




 

For further information please contact Martin Chadwick on 01925 438 094 or mchadwick@axonresourcing.com