Psychometric Assessments & Aptitude Tests
If you have been invited to attend an Assessment / Development Centre, you will be going through a variety of exercises so that your behaviour across various work situations can be measured.
Aptitude tests :
Numerical, verbal and abstract reasoning tests, which give an indication of a candidate's ability to reason with and make correct decisions based on work-related information. To experience the aptitude tests, you can take some practice exercises here:
- Abstract Reasoning for Junior Managers
- Abstract Reasoning for Middle/Senior Managers
- Numerical Reasoning for Administrative & Blue Collar Roles
- Numerical Reasoning for Middle/Senior Managers
- Verbal Reasoning for Administrative & Blue Collar Roles
- Verbal Reasoning for Middle/Senior Managers
- In-tray exercise: individual written exercise in which you will be asked to solve problems and make decisions, based on a number of letters and memos.
- Interactive exercises or role plays :
- Analysis and Presentation exercise: to observe how you analyse a range of data and make a presentation of your solutions to a superior.
- Management exercise: a face-to-face discussion with another role player who may be your colleague, superior or direct report.
- Commercial exercise: to observe how you analyse a range of data relating to a commercial problem and how you interact with a potential client.
- Group exercise: to look at how you interact with other participants during a group discussion.
Personality / Motivational questionnaires
a series of questions that measure your personality preferences and/or motivational drivers.
Simulation exercises :
Competency Based Interview :
a structured, in-depth interview to gather relevant information on specific competencies by means of specific situations or examples. Click here to view our interview preparation guide.