IQ + EQ + Personality

Chris Apps • 17 September 2024

Cognitive Skills, Emotional Intelligence, and Personality Traits

An excellent battery of tests to complement your interview. This battery of tests measures general intelligence, emotional intelligence, and personality. There are up to 254 questions the candidate will answer over 45 minutes. You will never come close to asking that many questions in an interview.   We recommend testing before you interview, as this helps you refine your questions, but also gives you the opportunity to cull an unsuitable candidate, thus saving time and resources. But, more importantly, it prevents you from hiring someone who excels at interviews but is weak in many other areas. First impressions are the weak link in recruitment decisions. This brief moment in time is when mistakes are made, and potentially, very costly mistakes.


Telephone screen, test, and then only interview the good candidates. This one simple change to your recruitment process will significantly improve your recruitment decisions.
This battery of tests costs $450 (excl.GST), which includes talking to the candidate to explain the process and gather incidental data. We provide you with written and verbal feedback in the context of the role’s position description and the candidate’s CV. The candidate is also offered their results if they want them, which most do.


You cannot get the same depth or complexity of information about a candidate in just an interview. This battery of tests gives you that extra information to complement your interview.


We have been using this battery of tests from Criteria for many years, and we are pleased with the results, as are our clients.


Fermion specialises in psychometric testing for recruitment. Please contact Fermion to discuss how this battery of tests, or any other psychometric test, can help with your recruitment decisions.

About the Author:

Christopher Apps is an Organisational Psychologist and the owner of Fermion. He stays updated on the latest psychology research and shares evidence-based insights.

 

The focus of Fermion is "Psychometric Testing for Recruitment" and "Recruitment to Retention: How to select good staff and keep them". If you would like to learn how to select good staff and keep them, please feel free to contact us at Fermion.


“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Eleanor Roosevelt.

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