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Talents! A Remarkable Untapped Phenomenon
What are talents anyway? A talent is the capacity to perform certain activities or process certain information in a way that is very easy, natural and most often times enjoyable to the person. A talented person is capable of doing something easier, faster, with less effort, and more naturally than most other people. Talents can be physical, mental or emotional or any combination of all three.

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How To Choose an Assessment Test
There are literally hundreds of tests available that an employer may use. Excluding the specific skills tests and honesty/integrity tests, most employers that use testing want to know about an individual’s mental abilities and personality traits. And, they want to know how a person’s scores compare to the requirements of the job.

Are You The Perfect Fit For Your Role?
Last week I arrived home from a conference to an email inbox that was very full. I spotted an email with a subject line reading: Behavioral Test. Never mind that they’re not called tests. It’s a survey that spits out an assessment of a person's natural behavioral style. There are no wrong or right assessments.
Trouble with Personality Tests
Personality tests are commonly used for hiring in organisations. Personality tests attempt to measure a broad range of basic traits, such as the Big Five Personality traits or Emotional Intelligence. Although these may provide useful information on how to describe a person, research has repeatedly shown that they do little to predict how well a person will perform in a given job. Academic researchers are re-emphasizing what Chally reported over 30 years ago -personality tests are simply too broad to predict on-the-job performance. Chally, on behalf of the US Justice Department, found it necessary to research solutions well beyond the accuracy of this type of assessment; to identify and measure very precise, job-specific competencies, behaviours, and skills that have been scientifically shown to predict on-the-job sucess.

The Three ‘Real’ Secrets of Hiring Top Sales Reps
Finding, interviewing, hiring and training sales reps costs hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars. What's worse is that you never know who you're going to get. Assessment tests can be time consuming and expensive. Want an easier way? Use these three secrets and you'll easily increase your chances of finding and succeeding with Top Sales Reps!
E-assessment is More Than Test Creation
As the assessing part of eLearning, the tests creation and participation is just the method. We really need the test results of the e-assessment to evaluate how students learnt.
Using Pre-Employment Tests Can Save You Money
Pre-employment testing is a way of determining the degree to which a candidate possesses and can demonstrate the knowledge skills and abilities required to successfully perform in the position. Any tests that are used must me job related and valid and comply with the “Uniform Guidelines on Employment Selection Procedures” issued by the EEOC. Some of the most commonly used types of pre-employment tests are...

Are you making the most of Psychometric Assessments?
Many of us actively recoil when we see the words ‘Psychometric Assessments’. This may be due to fear of the unknown, seeing them as ‘tests’ or just tedious questionnaires. While you would not be alone in this, we on the other hand are advocates (of the right Assessments). At Barrett, we spend much of our time demystifying what Assessments actually are and how businesses can benefit from using them. So even if you have been brave enough to use Assessments, most people do not know how to get the most out of them. Often the Assessment process is seen as an isolated event with the final report being put on the shelf or in a draw out of sight and out of mind.
Using Employment Tests
On today’s market, there are hundreds of extremely well-developed employment tests. However, many widely distributed and highly marketed tests do not meet generally accepted standards for test development and validation. Organizations considering the use of employment tests should carefully consider how the test was developed, the extent to which a test yields stable and consistent results, the relationship between test scores and sales success, and the non-discriminatory nature of the test.
Top 7 Sales Force Compensation Secrets
What's the relationship between sales assessment performance and income. Specifically if someone tests well, but doesn't report ever having a high level of income is there an underlying reason?

10 Reasons - Don't Worry When Sales Candidates Don't Take the Test
We instruct clients to have their sales candidates take the Sales Candidate assessment very early in the recruiting process. It's the first step after the client receives their resumes. Clients carefully spell out exactly how the entire process will work and explain that the assessment is simply the first step. Recent statistics show that only 34% of the candidates are taking the assessment without additional prompts. Isn't that awful? Maybe - let's explore it further. We should consider that the following ten scenarios are all possible reasons why candidates fail to complete the assessment:
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