Psychometric Assessments
CREAM of the Crop is the South Australian Channel Partner for SHL (formerly known as Saville & Holdsworth). SHL is the world leader in designing and implementing leading edge psychological solutions to help organisations address their strategic people challenges.
Through the application of intelligent selection and development solutions, SHL provides organisations with competitive advantage through the more effective use of their human capital. By minimising the risk associated with selection and succession planning decisions and maximising the investment in their people through executive development and performance management, real competitive advantage can be achieved through SHL tools and approaches.
Operating across 40 countries and in 30 languages, SHL psychometric assessment and development tools are utilised by thousands of client organisations of all sizes, in all sectors and economies. The SHL client base includes 19 of the Fortune 25 most admired companies, 64 of the FTSE Global 100 and 7 of the Top 10 BRW Australian companies.
As the world’s largest, most respected and defensible provider of business relevant psychometric assessment tools, our client organisations can rely on SHL tools to deliver real value.
Specialist Assessment
CREAM of the Crop knows that your business relies on its staff from day one, but often generalist recruitment techniques do not provide the depth required to make discerning and final judgements about candidates that have been shortlisted. Costly mistakes can occur through poor interviewing skills and subjective decision-making. With employee commencement and training costs estimated to cost 1.5 to 2 times their average salary, what business can afford to take risks?
Whether you are looking to identify the strengths of a potential company leader within your organisation, or are looking to raise and standardise the customer service attributes demonstrated by your key operative staff, CREAM of the Crop can provide you with advice on the best range of assessment tools for the job.
Perhaps you are looking to reduce turnover, or ensure that the numeracy and verbal comprehension standards of your incoming team leaders are adequate for your future company directions, our advice will break down the technical difficulty often associated with psychometric assessment and cost effective long term solutions which will help your business identify its strengths and overcome its weaknesses?
Modern business HR thinking places great emphasis on determining specific behavioural characteristics as part of the job analysis process. Ability and personality tests can now be used with great precision to greatly improve your chance of securing the right person for the job.
We offer a wide range of sophisticated psychometric and ability assessments to suit your industry and occupational selection needs.
The following product range will be available to customers:
- Ability Tests - administration, scoring and profiling
- Assessment and Development Centre Materials incorporating:
- Group discussions
- Written exercises
- In tray exercises
- Role play exercises
- Integrated simulations
- Career assessment guides
- Computer Based Packages
- Corporate Cultural Questionnaire and Work Profiling system
- Personality and Motivation Instruments - Reporting
- Personality and Motivation and Interest Instruments - administration, scoring and profiling
- Interview Guides
- 360° Competency Tools - administration, scoring and profiling
- Development Audit
Ability tests are generally used to measure aspects which are essential to the performance of the occupation; for example verbal, numeric, spatial, clerical, computer, mechanical, and sensory abilities. A wide range of products can be used including computer based, work simulation, and paper/pencil tests.
Personality inventories or questionnaires, are used to measure various personality scales (typically 16 or 32 scales) and thus identify the behaviours, emotions, thinking style and relationships that are evident in the candidate. These can be highly effective in creating the means to select high performance teams, or to inculcate a certain culture (eg customer service, or innovativeness) within the organisation.
CREAM of the Crop will assist you determine which other selection processes should be incorporated, such as structured interviewing, pre-employment checks, integrated simulations, group discussions, dexterity test, physical capacity checks etc.
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Contact Us
With offices in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra, SHL is uniquely placed to deliver exceptional solutions to our clients, providing them with competitive advantage through the more effective use of their human capital.
Email SA Channel Partner CREAM of the Crop: kk@creamcareers.com.au or call Simon Jones or Kerrie Klinsic on
(08) 8464 0022 to discuss how SHL may be able to assist your organisation.
Alternatively, to view the SHL website, please click here
