Assessment and selection

Choice should be a great thing. But when the ramifications of making the wrong choice cost you time, effort, money, morale and confidence, choice can become a burden rather than a benefit. People are complex and sophisticated, and making a good match between an individual and your business is a work of art. This complexity can render your development processes and succession planning equally as problematic.

At Open the Door we use sound knowledge of human psychology, combined with broad experience of using psychological assessment techniques in the workplace, to provide you with a range of solutions and services. Below you’ll find some examples of what might be happening in your business right now, the support we can offer, and the outcomes we can achieve.

The situation on your side of the door?

You’ve recruited many people with some successes and the odd failure, yet you feel that your selection process could be better
You need to recruit for a new and critical role and you must identify the best candidate; where do you start?
You’re experiencing high employee turnover and the evidence is pointing to inappropriate matches between employee and role
Your industry is plagued by fast employee turnover and you want to minimise this within your business via careful recruitment
You know that you could benefit from the provision of in-depth feedback around the abilities and personality of candidates for a senior position
You are seeking to get the right mix of people for a new team, or looking for the right addition to an existing team
Your development processes need an individual focus in some instances; psychological profiling will add that element
You’ve been thinking for some time about a robust way of informing your succession planning processes and would like to make use of psychometric tools in the context of a development centre

Support to help you step through the door

Individual profiling for selection, team composition, development and succession planning purposes
Assessment of abilities, personality, motivators, interpersonal and decision making style, and cultural fit
Psychometric assessment to predict how well the individual will fit with a role, a team or your business
Psychometric assessment to identify strengths and areas for development
Compilation of comprehensive or summary reports for client and individual
Interpretation and feedback sessions for client and individual
Assessment and selection process design to support you in recruiting the right people for the role and your business
Assessment tool and bespoke solution design:
Realistic job previews to enable self-selection
Role-plays
Work samples and simulations
Group exercises
Structured interviews
Design includes administration instructions, question and answer booklets, candidate instructions, role player briefs, group discussion cards, rating forms and manuals
Access to off-the-shelf tests, questionnaires and exercises from all respected test-publishers
Design of evidence based interview format and process, including training for interviewers, interviewer guides, suggested questions, evidence collection forms, rating documentation and decision making guidelines

What we aim to achieve on our side of the door

Selection processes and recruitment decisions which successfully match people to roles and organisations
Minimising loss of time and money on inappropriate appointments
Identification of complementary additions to existing teams to sustain and enhance strong performance
Focused development activities based on information derived from robust and reliable assessment methods
Identification of potential within the existing workforce
A suite of assessment tools, some bespoke and some off-the-shelf, which you can have confidence in
Sophisticated interviewing capability within your organisation

You remember that we said we believe in caring enough to get to the heart of your issues in order to really help? Our assessment work not only focuses on the needs of your business, but also those of the individuals being assessed. We take good care of your business, your candidates, your employees and your reputation. If you’d like to talk, please contact us.