Assessment centre
Identify your new talent through soft skills assessment
The first instinct of many companies seeking to improve their recruitment performance is often to step up the measures that will make them more attractive to the best profiles. The emphasis on remote working, space planning and employee support (health insurance, child care, sports facilities, etc.) all add to their employer brand.
However, when recruitment volumes become large or recurrent, these investments show their limits: the cost and complexity of these initiatives can quickly become prohibitive, without guaranteeing the quality of the candidates selected.
Change your outlook and challenge your recruitment methods to open up new perspectives.
The assessment of soft skills is gradually becoming a formidable method for recruiting the most qualified candidates for your teams over the long term. Thanks to Assessment Centres, you can recruit a range of different profiles, all with the same high performance.
With the Assessment Centre, you benefit from :
- Reliable, predictive assessment: technical and behavioural skills are analysed by several observers to guarantee optimum assessment quality
- Customised role-plays: draw on a library of more than 60 available role-plays and the expertise of our experts to co-construct the ones that are right for your recruitment project.
- An innovative platform: our Assess4U tool, developed by our experts, centralises all the information you need to organise and customise your sessions effectively, whether face-to-face or remotely. The tool’s ergonomic design makes your assessments easier and more reliable, and above all your decision-making after the interviews, thanks to its comparative graphical analyses.
- Enhanced results: your assessments can be supported by additional psychometric or personality tests, such as DISC, PAPI, SAVEN or the integration of your test platforms (CentralTest, Assessfirst, etc.).
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What is the Assessment Centre?
The Assessment Centre is a predictive method of evaluating candidates designed and run by expert recruitment consultants. Centred on the observation of behavioural skills, this approach facilitates the identification of candidates’ potential in a reliable manner. To ensure the reliability of these assessments, our specialists combine tests, interviews, exercises and work situations.
This system can be easily integrated into your existing recruitment processes.
It allows up to 10 candidates to be assessed on a single day, and encourages joint decision-making as soon as the day is over.
The Assessment Centre is particularly relevant for jobs where the behavioural dimension is crucial to success (management and sales roles), but it is also of interest for more technical jobs that are particularly difficult to fill (maintenance technicians, accountants, etc.). This system is particularly relevant for companies that are ready to support their teams’ skills development.
Our expert consultants put all our know-how, tried-and-tested methods and cutting-edge tools at your disposal. As a leading player in the deployment of Assessment Centres for over 10 years, we can help you identify and recruit high-performance profiles.
You need to recruit candidates by Assessment Centre if…
The Assessment Centre can be used in a wide range of situations, but it is particularly useful when your company needs to:
- Recruit candidates quickly: you’re setting up or reorganising a department, a sales outlet, a sales team or a production team, so you need to recruit high-performance profiles quickly despite a shortage of candidates. Open the profiles and present around ten targeted candidates to your recruitment teams and operational managers on a dedicated day. Share the results at the end of the day and make concerted decisions!
- Broaden your sourcing: you’re not managing to attract enough targeted candidates in the time available for short-staffed positions or large volumes of vacancies. Open up your prerequisites in terms of background and know-how, while remaining demanding in terms of the soft skills that determine the performance of your employees, thanks to the Assessment Centre.
- Strategic recruitment: you need specific skills to take charge of strategic projects or positions that have a major impact on your organisation’s performance. The Assessment Centre helps you to challenge candidates objectively and select the most suitable profiles, while limiting the risk of error.
- Reduce your staff turnover: your company is faced with a high and penalising staff turnover, mostly on your own initiative, despite the support programmes. By tightening up the tests around exercises and simulations, the Assessment Centre limits the risk of errors and significantly reduces your staff turnover (by up to 75%).
Rely on the R.E.S.P.E.C.T skills framework and the 7 dimensions that reveal Talents
Relying on a reliable repository of behavioural skills is the cornerstone of any effective assessment. Although these are neatly filed away in well-organised HR files, they are all too often reserved for job profiles that are very well documented, but all too rarely updated, and which few people know how to use properly when recruiting.
Without replacing your tools, benefit from the expertise and know-how of the Actual Talent teams, who have modelled the 7 key dimensions that reveal Talent around the R.E.S.P.E.C.T. skills framework.
- Relational Intelligence, or how to excel in social relations
- Emotional Intelligence, and the mastery of intra- and interpersonal emotions
- Situational Intelligence, to act appropriately in the face of hazards, changes and situations
- Show yourself to be a pedagogue, and know how to share information simply and in a way that everyone can understand
- Be Enthusiastic, and adopt a communication style and posture that make an impact
- Providing solutions and being resolutely customer-oriented
- Process information efficiently
While these skills are particularly well-suited to managerial and commercial roles, they have also proven their worth in support and technical roles, fostering collaboration and relationships, whether internal or external.
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Advice at the heart of Assessment Centres
Our experts don’t just run assessment days. To make them a success, these Assessment Centre days are all tailored to our customers’ jobs and their specific requirements. Our experts work with you upstream of the service to identify the behavioural skills that are critical to an employee’s success in his or her job. They then design the Assessment Centre day by selecting the most appropriate scenarios and exercises.
If it’s possible to use your own skills framework, we can use the RESPECT framework to guide you through the most relevant behavioural skills for recruiting a high-performing employee.
Thanks to this individualised approach, not only do we ensure the best match between your expectations and the skills to be assessed, but we also ensure alignment between your HR and operational departments.
An objective assessment that encourages diversity in your workforce
Our methods are designed to eliminate any subjective bias and ensure that every candidate is assessed fairly and equitably. This transparent process not only benefits your organisation, but also your employer brand, by delivering a high quality candidate experience. If they are not shortlisted, candidates are briefed on skills that are out of line with expectations.
With Actual Talent at your side, you can integrate recognised expertise, a rigorous methodology and a human approach into your recruitment processes. We do everything we can to ensure that your company benefits from the best skills, assessed reliably and predictively.
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