Sheffield is committed to providing a first-class service to our candidates that adds value to your career. Our consultants have the skills and experience to help you achieve your career goals.
We recognise that looking for your next role is time-consuming and can be stressful and challenging. We work closely with you to support and advise you through the process.
Using Psychometric Assessments, we apply some scientific rigour to help you find a role for which you are suited. Sitting the assessments enables you to demonstrate your strengths and style. You are entitled to get feedback, which may help you clarify your ideas about your suitability for different kinds of work and identify areas you may want to develop.
These tools can be particularly valuable if you are in a process of Outplacement and Careers Transition.
The main types of psychometric assessment used are Ability Assessments and Personality Questionnaires.
Ability Assessments
These are usually timed and measure skill in a specific area. The most common categories of ability tests used in occupational assessment are:
- Verbal - depending on the level being tested, this may include spelling and grammar, completing sentences and definitions or reading written passages and responding to questions.
- Numerical - depending on the level being tested, this may include completing numerical sequences and calculations or interpreting tables and data.
- Abstract - this assessment is made up of 'shapes and puzzles' and looks at your ability to solve problems that you haven't seen before.
Personality Questionnaires
Personality questionnaires provide information about how you would typically behave at work. Questions are aimed at discovering your preferred working style. There are no right or wrong answers in personality questionnaires. There is usually no time limit, but you should work quickly through the questions.
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