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By: Ace Home | Business | Careers-Employment


Psychometric testing offers our clients a comprehensive and cost effective method of identifying the most suitable candidates for their businesses. Adecco Xpert is a proprietary assessment
product, which includes Adecco proprietary content, as well as content from leading test publishers around the world, such as Saville Holdsworth Ltd, is administered as standard as a
component of our recruitment process for many roles.

Adecco Xpert has been proven to successfully increase the longevity of placements, ultimately leading to increased retention. In short, Xpert is a key tool in ensuring that the Adecco Group finds the right candidate for your business. Adecco Xpert, will add value to your business by minimising the risk and considerable cost associated with staff turnover.

The expense incurred from testing is minimal when compared with the costs of under-performance or reemployment of staff. Adecco Xpert is a holistic assessment suite, which tests not only a candidate’s ability to â€do the job†but also takes into account motivational and environmental factors that may impact upon their success in the role.

Can Do testing determines whether a candidate can step in and perform the essential tasks required on an assignment.

Adecco Xpert â€Can Do†tests cover a range of testing options, including:

†Light industrial skills (control panel checking, practical reasoning and spatial recognition)
†Software package proficiency
†Clerical aptitudes (analysing data, attention to detail and reading comprehension)
†Customer service aptitudes (stress tolerance, agreeableness and situational savvy)

Will Do assessments provide an insight to an applicant’s attitude, motivation and work ethic.

â€Will Do†evaluates attributes including:

†Reliability, conscientiousness
†Customer service skills
†Work safety
†Stress tolerance
†Motivation and work conduct

The Will Fit questionnaire measures the â€fit†between an applicant and your environment. Recognising that when retention and higher productivity. The â€Will Fit†assessment assists to ensure employee compatibility with your work environment, increasing likelihood of job success. The â€Will Fit†assessment is able to be customised for your work environment. To do this Adecco uses the Client "Will Fit" questionnaire, which is designed to help you describe your specific work environment.

This questionnaire provides a list of paired dimensions reflecting different work environments. This list will help us create a â€Will Fit†profile for work environments within your business.
Once the â€Will Fit†assessment has been customised to fit your requirements, the employees/candidates are then able to complete the online questionnaire describing the environment in which they prefer working. A matching report is then generated that reflects the overlap and degree of fit between your description and the candidate’s preferences, so that we get the best possible match for your job assignment needs.

Adecco New Zealand’s Proprietary System †Ensuring Quality Candidates

Adecco Xpert allows candidates to our complete a customised suite of assessments over the Internet. Assessments are emailed to the candidate, completed over a specified time period and, upon completion, the candidate results are encrypted and returned via email to the Adecco consultant. Adecco Xpert also benefits candidates as they complete the assessment in their own environment, meaning they do not have to take time off from their current position to complete the assessment. For integrity, candidates are also required to complete a validation assessment, which includes a subset of questions drawn from the test pool, in the Adecco branch if they progress to the interview stage.

Key benefits of psychometric testing include:

†Increase in staff retention, and associated costs
†Provide objective and standardised information to assist candidate selection
†Other elements of the recruitment process, such as interviewing and reference checks can be used to confirm or disconfirm the results of psychometric testing
†Economical way of screening large numbers of candidates, particularly via online assessment
†An efficient way of assessing personal needs and values that correlate with the cultural fit of a prospective organisation

Adecco New Zealand’s Xpert is an efficient tool to ensure businesses with only the top notched candidates having the right skills and fit to fill in available Dunedin jobs, Christchurch jobs, Wellington jobs, Auckland jobs and other available jobs in New Zealand.

To know more about Adecco New Zealand visit us at http://www.adecco.co.nz/.



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