Psychometric Testing
Psychometric tests provide validated, standardised measures of psychological constructs, from cognitive ability and reasoning through to personality, motivation, and emotional intelligence. Used in selection, development, and coaching, they reduce bias and increase the predictive validity of people decisions, fit for roles or promotion opportunities, and for aiding insight and self-understanding as comprehensively as possible.
Who we work with
You may be a…
- Business Owners and Managers
- Leaders in Elite Sport
- Educational Leadership
- Recruitment Managers
- Talent Acquisition Manager
- HR Business Partner
- Organisational Psychologist
- L&D Manager
- Executive Coach
You could be
Recruitment and Selection - assessing candidates' behavioural fit with the role, fit with the team and culture, learning and problem-solving capacity, emotional understanding and influence, and other factors critical to success and performance.
Development Programs and Processes, including Coaching - understanding personal strengths and areas of challenge is key to the developmental and coaching process
Graduate and executive selection programs - assessing high potential and high-stakes roles, from volume assessing large cohorts to in-depth individual insights and profiling
Leadership development pipelines - assessing to map future leaders' key atributes, and to inform training and coaching
Career transition and coaching support - understanding personal strengths and areas of challenge to make a career pivot, carer jump, or to understand for the first time what you may want to do
High-potential identification - assessing for the psychological attributes that indicate human performance potential
Why it matters
Predicts work style and cultural fit beyond the interview
Interviews are strongly influenced by how candidates present in the moment. Personality data provides a systematic, norm-referenced view of how someone is likely to behave day to day in a role — not just how they performed under pressure for 45 minutes.
Informs targeted development and coaching
Personality profiles give coaches and managers a shared language for discussing development. Rather than generic feedback, they enable precise conversations about specific traits and their workplace implications.
How psychometric assessment works
How a psychometric assessment process is managed, communicated, and handled is the key factor in maximising the likelylihood of a good and representative outcome for all involved. This is true of testing for any purpose from selection to development to self-insight, from high volume assesments with large numbers of candidates to high-stakes testing for highly experienced professionals and executives. Every candidate is the most important stakeholder.
Not sure where to start?
Reach out to us for a chat, or have a read of our Psychlopedia.