As an accredited SHL partner, PRIMEXL offer the full range of SHL products including ability, personality, motivation and competency assessment. All testing is professionally administered and interpreted by our accredited psychologists and consultants.
“Workplace assessment is about helping businesses decide who to hire, develop or promote by giving them the best possible information about the people they are choosing between. Tests take away the element of bluffing and put managers in a position where they can assess a candidate with all the cards on the table” David Leigh, CEO SHL.
For over 30 years SHL has been a world leader in the development of psychometric tests to improve the recruitment and talent management practises of organisations through objective assessment.
(Source: SHL Objective Assesment)
SHL Ability Tests
Ability tests have a long and established reputation for reliably predicting job performance and as a major component of a best practise selection process.
Recognised as the single best method of predicting job success ability tests are designed to measure current ability and future potential for different types of specific work skills – for example, numerical, verbal and inductive reasoning.
Benefits of Ability Tests
• Provides a fair, objective and consistent measure
• Can be administered online. Results can be accessed quicker
• Research has proven that the use of ability tests is more reliable than interviews in isolation.
Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ)
SHL's OPQ is the most widely used psychometric measure in the world today and is recognised for providing objective, detailed information about an individual's predicted behaviours in the work place; how they will fit into a work environment, work with others and what roles they are most suited to.
Benefits of OPQ
• Reduces the reliance on subjective recruitment tools like CV’s, references and the interview.
• Can increase the effectiveness of interview
• Can be administered online. Results can be accessed quicker.
Applications
• Recruitment
• Performance and Development Reviews
• Team Building
• Training Needs Analysis
• Team Building and Restructuring
OPQ Questionnaire Variations
| Type of Questionnaire | Job Roles |
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OPQ32 Ocupational Personality Questionnaire
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Graduates, Managers, Professionals, Directors |
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Sales OPQ
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Consultative Sales Roles |
| WSQ Work Styles Questionnaire | Technical and semi-skilled staff Eg. heavy industry, mining, transport and distribution sectors. |
| OPQ Management Competency Profile | Graduates, Managers, Professionals, Directors |
There are numerous Recruitment and Development reports available from the OPQ32. Please contact us to discuss your specific requirements.
SHL Universal Competency Framework
Competency based systems have become well recognised as best practice in the strategic management of human resources. Competency models provide a framework for selection, performance management, development, promotion and career and succession planning.
Competencies are sets of behaviours which define how people use their knowledge and skills in different situations at work. SHL’s Universal Competency Framework provides a clear set of dimensions against which people performance can be described and measured. They are the vital link between the behaviours, skills and attributes required by an individual and the tasks required to do the job well.
At the top of the hierarchy are the SHL Great Eight competency factors. These provide the broad outlines of all roles and are a general categorization of behaviours that influence job performance. Great 8 Competencies are: Leading and Deciding, Supporting and Co-operating, Interacting and Presenting, Analysing and Interpreting, Creating and Conceptualising, Organising and Executing, Adapting and Coping, Enterprising and Performing.
Beneath these are 20 dimensions which provide more detail to the Great Eight allowing person and job profiles to be created and compared. At the base of the framework are the 112 Components which allow consultants to precisely define the critical behaviours that impact performance in a specific job, role or function and which can be used as building blocks for the construction of tailored competency models.
Benefits of SHL Universal Competency Framework (UCF)
• Based on extensive scientific research the UCF provides employers with a standard terminology to assist them identify and develop the competencies their organisations require.
• Saves time, money and improves the quality of HR processes by linking measurable competencies to people and jobs throughout the employee lifecycle.
• Enables companies to objectively measure individual behaviour and how this can impact on the company strategic goals and results.
PRIMEXL consultants use the SHL universal competency framework and job analysis tools such as the SHL Work Profiling System (WPS) and online Competency Profiler (OCP) to assist organizations integrate a competency based recruitment and talent management system as part of their overall human resource strategy.
Click here to contact PRIMEXL Consultants to assist you implement a Competency Based strategy in your organisation.
SHL 360 Degree Feedback
The SHL 360 degree feedback process is part of a well designed development and training strategy to assist your company identify and retain its most talented employees.
360 degree feedback enables you to obtain information in a structured way from a number of different sources - managers, subordinates, peers, customers on the assumption that each can provide a different perspective on an individual's skills to produces a comprehensive and objective picture.
Benefits of SHL 360 Degree Feedback
• Focuses on a competency based assessment approach.
• Is administered on line – saves time and money.
• Assists to promote an environment where open discussion about behaviour is an accepted practice in the organisation.
• An automated generated user-friendly report can be produced on line for an individual or team enabling you to quicky identify key development objectives
As an SHL partner, PRIMEXL understand the range of SHL products and can work with your key people to identify the appropriate tool and implement a cost effective business solution to match your requirements.
OPQ32-Flyer.pdf- Recruitment-and-Staff-Selection.pdf
- Recruitment-and-Talent-Management-Solutions.pdf
