By Hannah Vernon, Media & Communications at Gradcracker A key stage of many recruitment processes, psychometric tests are used to assess some element of a candidate's cognitive ability or personality. It is likely that you'll come across psychometric testing when applying for degree apprenticeship, placement and graduate opportunities, as many Gradcracker employers use this method … Continue reading An Introduction to Psychometric Testing
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GUEST BLOG: Online tests – why employers use them and top tips about them
Guest blog written by Laura Blackledge, Student Recruitment Officer at PwC. Here Laura talks about online tests and some useful tip on how to be successful. During the PwC recruitment process for Undergraduate work experience (first year opportunities, summer internships and placement years) and Graduate roles online psychometric tests are used in the initial selection. We … Continue reading GUEST BLOG: Online tests – why employers use them and top tips about them
CAREERS BLOG: Assessment Centre Activity Afternoon Q&A
Blog written by Rachel Jenkins, Employer Liaison Assistant, Careers Assessment Centre Activity Afternoon - 19th November 2014 Panel: Kelly McDonald: Careers Advisor (Chair) Rebecca Fullam: Nestle James Brazill: IBM Sarah-Annis Brookes: PwC Helen Taylor-Chadwick: Hiscox Event Summary: Are you preparing for an assessment centre, or planning on applying for a graduate job or internship scheme next academic … Continue reading CAREERS BLOG: Assessment Centre Activity Afternoon Q&A
CAREERS BLOG: Assessment Centres – practice makes perfect
Blog written by Irena Zientek, Information Resources Manager, Careers If you’ve heard of assessment centres (run by employers, as part of their recruitment process), but are a bit uncertain of what exactly is involved, then read on for an intro to these sorts of events. Assessment centres are used by employers to observe a … Continue reading CAREERS BLOG: Assessment Centres – practice makes perfect
York students – do you have what it takes?
Can you knock Nottingham University off the top of GTI's leaderboard and prove that York has what it takes? Take the challenge... The challenge consists of 4 types of free online graduate recruiters practice tests. It is the ONLY competition in the UK where students can gain immediate and transparent feedback on how they score and … Continue reading York students – do you have what it takes?
Postgrads! Try out new aptitude tests for free
Calling postgrad students in Economics, Mathematics, Management and Psychology. Saville Consulting are developing new verbal and numerical reasoning tests and are looking for volunteers to complete online assessments. There are two online tests, taking just over an hour in total to complete. The test period runs between 5 March and 15 May and the tests will … Continue reading Postgrads! Try out new aptitude tests for free
Free practice psychometric exercise
Situational Judgement Tests (SJT) are becoming increasingly popular in graduate selection programmes. SJT’s involve presenting the candidate with a situation that they could face at work and they then have to make a judgement as to how to deal with it. OPC Assessment has designed a new SJT specifically for graduates and we are seeking … Continue reading Free practice psychometric exercise
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TalentLens at Pearson publish psychometric tests for recruitment and selection purposes. We are currently looking for individuals to complete one of our tests to help with the ongoing development of this tool. In exchange for 60 minutes of your time you will gain valuable experience of an aptitude test measuring critical thinking skills as well as … Continue reading Practice psychometric tests
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