A Practical Guide to Assessment Centres and Selection Methods: Measuring Competency for Recruitment and Development [Hardcover]

Ian Taylor M.B (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 28, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0749450541 | ISBN-13: 978-0749450540

This book provides advice and tools to effectively introduce, design, and deliver assessment or development centers in an organization. A "how to" manual, it runs through every aspect of running an assessment center, from pre-briefing an organization to the event, the feedback, and the evaluation. It includes a sample framework specifically designed for use at assessment centers and tips for sourcing and developing individual frameworks. It also examines the key critieria used to guide an organization's choice of selection tools and compares asessment centers with other commonly used methods. The free CD ROM contains exercises such as role play, in-tray prioritizing, analytical report writing, and group problem solving, and advice on which exercises to use to assess each competence.

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"Activities are simple and easy to use within short time frames...The book is aimed at human resource and recruitment practitioners." SciTech Book News

About the Author

Ian Taylor is an occupational psychologist who has over 20 years’ experience as a management development practitioner.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Kogan Page (November 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749450541
• ISBN-13: 978-0749450540
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 7 x 8.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,604,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A how to guide for professionals invovled with hiring selection and employee development, May 23, 2008

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Craig Matteson (Saline, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Practical Guide to Assessment Centres and Selection Methods: Measuring Competency for Recruitment and Development (Hardcover)

This book is for a subset of those professionals involved in hiring and employee development. If you need to use assessments (both psychometric and assessment activities) this book is designed as a "how to" guide for you. The author, Ian Taylor, is an occupational psychologist and is chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a member of the chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. As I read through the book I was struck by how much he favors assessment activities over any kind of testing. Maybe there is more employment opportunity in training people how to run these activities well than in creating and selling written psychometric exams. By the way, the term `centre' is used in the way we Americans might use the word suite or battery (as in a battery of tests).

Half of the book talks about the assessment process and how to administer them. The second half of the book provides a series of activities you can use for selection and employee development. These activities are also provided on the accompanying CD in PDF files.

This is not for general readers, but may be just the ticket for the right HR professional.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful how-to guide for creating and delivering suites of assessments, December 15, 2009

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Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Practical Guide to Assessment Centres and Selection Methods: Measuring Competency for Recruitment and Development (Hardcover)

Poor hiring decisions take a toll on a company. Increasingly, businesses are implementing a wider variety of assessment tools to achieve better results in their hiring and promotion processes. Occupational psychologist Ian Taylor shows how assessment centers (or suites) can help your firm differentiate the "good" performers from the "average" ones, which is crucial knowledge for building a more productive workforce. Taylor presents several methods for designing a solid "competence framework" to structure your assessments, including one useful seven-step system. He helpfully provides sample frameworks and activities that you can use or adapt in your own assessment centers. Although some of his information and guidelines are specific to organizations in the U.K., getAbstract recommends this manual to any human resources professional who wants to create a well-planned assessment center.