Recruiting and retaining high-quality employees takes top priority in the competitive marketplace. Organisations continually evaluate selection procedures and seek innovative ways to identify training and development needs. Businesses with large numbers of employees increasingly turn to assessment centres to provide an accurate evaluation of an individual’s capabilities.

The goal of assessment centres is to evaluate the performance of a number of candidates simultaneously by using a variety of tests, techniques, interviews, questionnaires and simulation exercises. Assessment centres have proven to be valuable for graduate recruiters allowing them to gain an accurate view of applicants that best fit specific aspects of an organisation.

Assessment centres also provide the ideal environment to assess existing employees’ training and development needs, remove subjective judgments to provide a clear view of applicants’ strengths and weaknesses and enable organisations to identify those areas where particular skills are scarce.

Kenexa’s Assessment Centre Range

Kenexa's assessment centre range is a series of powerful and effective off-the-shelf assessment center exercises that are readily available to organisations. The exercises assess a wide range of job-relevant competencies that can be used immediately as a complete set or as individual assessments.

Our assessment centre range includes frequently used assessments from group exercises and role-plays to telephone simulation exercises for customer service personnel. Exercises are easy-to-use, and are set in a variety of realistic business and not-for-profit sector scenarios. Scoring keys are simple yet comprehensive and are popular with assessors and candidates. If preferred, the exercises can be tailored to specific requirements to include an organisation’s corporate logo and branding requirements.

Kenexa’s assessment centre range includes:

• Presentation exercises
• Role-plays
• Group exercises
• In-tray exercises
• Written analysis exercises
• Workflow simulation exercises
• Practice interview sessions