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An assessment
center, is a systematic and comprehensive testing process in which
pre-selected candidates are tested in an environment that provides
a high degree of reliability and insight into his/her supervisory,
leadership, and/or management potential by testing skills and
ability, rather than just knowledge. Assessment testing is appropriate
for all supervisory ranks.
The candidates
participate in a series of exercises tailored to represent the
culture and environment of your organization and community. The
assessment center process allows the assessors to observe the
candidate’s thought process, organizational skills, leadership
ability, stress tolerance, analytical skills, influence, delegation
ability, decisiveness, sensitivity and/or empathy, both verbal
and non-verbal communication, ability to function as a team member,
and his/her ethics.
The assessment
center testing process has both individual and group tasks that
are observed by a series of assessors, trained by McGrath Consulting
in behavioral observation techniques. Each assessor will rank
the candidates and then, as a group, discuss and agree upon a
composite evaluation of each candidate.
The hiring
authority is able to evaluate, before hiring and/or promotion,
how an individual is likely to perform in the job via observation
of the candidate’s ability to handle job-simulation exercises.
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