Psychometric Tests and Assessment at Work

PsyAsia is pleased to announce training dates between August and October for accreditation in various psychometric assessments, including Saville Consulting Wave, Identity and the Apollo Profile.  Additionally we have released dates for the next Psychometric Assessment at Work Course - Level A and B.  Please click on the following link to view all training dates and for more information:

Psychometric Test Certification Training Dates in Singapore and Hong Kong

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PsyAsia International would like our clients as well as the general public in Indonesia to be aware that there is an Individual by the name of Heru Wiryanto who is offering to run the British Psychological Society Level A and B Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing in an express 4 day course in association with HRD Forum in Indonesia.

An example of his offerings may be found at:

http://idemployment.blogspot.com/2008/05/head-hunter-psychological-assessment-in.html

The material on his various websites and blogs is illegally copied directly from the PsyAsia International website without permission and is a violation of copyright and intellectual property law.

Furthermore, despite his claim, Mr. Wiryanto is not a member of the British Psychological Society (please check with them directly on (+44 116 254 9568 if you prefer).  He is unable to pass attendees for the Level A and B certificates.  So, anybody who registers for his course is likely to get not only a poor learning experience, but they will not get the certification they have registered for.  We and our partner in the UK have made a complaint to the Abuse section of the BPS.

We have notified both HRD forum and the Indonesian Psychological Society, both of whom have not responded as of 6th June to our email of one week previous.

PsyAsia International is now taking further steps as deemed necessary.  In the meantime, we strongly urge you not to register for this training as it can only lead to disappointment.  Please consider our course which is legitimate, which has been run for over 10 years and which really does lead to the BPS Certificates.  Our course is run by an award-winning fully registered organisational psychologist whose PhD was in the area of psychometric assessment at work!

More details about our course: http://www.psyasia.com/psychometric_assessment_at_work_course.htm

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Saville Consulting Wave® Outperforms Major Personality Assessments
A free seminar hosted by PsyAsia International and presented by the MD of Saville Consulting Asia Pacific, Scott Rufus
Registration: Click here    More information on the seminar: click here

Over the past four years, Saville Consulting has developed revolutionary assessment tools designed to address the 21st century workplace. Concerns over unsupervised internet testing have now been largely overcome by Saville Consulting’s development of their Swift aptitude assessment portfolio. Additionally, the Saville Consulting Wave®, translated into over 20 languages takes one quarter of the time of the OPQ® with superior validity and is rapidly becoming the definitive personality assessment tool worldwide. The Saville Consulting Wave® has demonstrated outstanding ability to predict performance at work and groundbreaking research by Professor Peter Saville and his team has shown that the tool outperforms the OPQ32, NEO, 16PF, MBTI, Disc and HPI in predicting job performance.

At this PsyAsia seminar in Hong Kong, Scott Rufus will present some of these findings and introduce the Wave tool along with its practical applications.

About the presenter
Scott Ruhfus, Managing Director Saville Consulting Asia Pacific
BA Hons (Syd), MAPS, MAICD, Registered Psychologist

Scott Ruhfus is an organizational psychologist with 30 years experience in human resources, consulting and management. He is part of the management team that looks after Saville Consulting clients in the Asia Pacific region.

Scott is a passionate advocate for the role of assessment as an aid to organizational effectiveness and individual satisfaction. He has assisted many organizations in the region to do just that and he has the practical experience of seeing both sides of the fence, first as a user, then as an adviser and trainer.

Scott’s testing expertise is in the development of decision support systems and reporting formats which address the practical need to identify, develop and retain talent, and to do it better than the competition. He has led projects as diverse as pilot selection for airlines and entry level screening for retail banks.

With his management experience and behavioural background he now also coaches and counsels senior executives in a number of public and private companies as well as the professional services sector.

Until 2002, he was President, Asia Pacific, of SHL, having joined the fledgling Australian office in 1988. Early on, he helped to introduce modern concepts in testing to the Australian and other regional markets, and later, was involved in product development and strategy. He has headed the Australian HR function of 3 multinationals, and was a military psychologist before that.

Scott has a degree in psychology from Sydney University, is a Registered Psychologist and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has enjoyed a close link to the profession, speaking at many seminars on advances in testing and assessment, taking an active interest in the postgraduate training of business psychologists, and serving on a number of professional committees. He is a past Chair of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Organisational Psychologists in Sydney.

More information on the seminar: click here

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PsyAsia International has the pleasure to announce that we will be running a Saville Wave Conversion Course in Hong Kong on 10 June.  The course is essentially free to all current clients of PsyAsia as we are only charging HK$2000 as a share in the expenses for the day.  *There is no training fee and delegates will receive in excess of HK$2000 retail value in online assessments, full reports and a technical manual.  This offer will only run one time, we will not offer it again, ever!  In future, this conversion course will run at between HK$6000-HK$8000 per person.  Although the course will run in Hong Kong, we are expecting delegates from across Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and mainland China.  All current PsyAsia clients (who meet the criteria for this course which is usually BPS Level B certification) are eligible for the HK$2000 fee.  New clients who meet the criteria will be invoiced HK$5000.  Clients who do not hold the Level B or similar qualification will not be eligible for this course, but are welcome to register for our Psychometric Assessment at Work course or our Apollo or Identity accreditation courses in the future.

For more information about the Saville Conversion Workshop, click here.

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In response to continuous requests of quick advice from our clients, PsyAsia International proudly presents the expressCONSULT™ service. Very often our clients need professional advice from our psychologists which is brief enough to be delivered in one email or a telephone call. As experts in the area, we are always very keen to help but often we find ourselves very busy and responding to 20 or more requests for quick support each day means cutting into work for our full-paying clients or leaving work very late!! To overcome this dilemma, PsyAsia has invented the expressCONSULT™ solution of “Purchasing time from our Psychologists”. With this service, you can purchase our psychologists’ time for their professional advice without the need for a formal consultancy service! It is quick and easy and your problem can be solved in as fast as 15 minutes!

What do we offer?
With expressCONSULT™, we offer a wide range of advisory and consultancy services that are not longer than 2 working hours (for projects that are estimated to take longer than 2 hours to complete, you would need to opt for our regular consulting services).

Examples of expressCONSULT™ services include, but are not limited to: checking interview questions, assessment centre exercises and training materials; advice on selection procedures, training design and performance appraisal; and any other advisory services that call on our expertise.

More information at http://www.psychologicalconsultancy.com

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PsyAsia International has launched an Online Learning centre.  At the current time the Centre houses a free seminar “Putting Psychometric Tests to Work”. The seminar includes narration as presented in real-life in both Hong Kong and Singapore during February and March 2008. 

PsyAsia will gradually add more seminars as well as full e-learning courses.  The full courses will be specially adapted versions of our popular in-house and public training programs. In addition to slides and narration, we will offer interactive content that will make learning fun, as well as end of segment quizzes and final course assessments.  Those who pass the end of course assessments will be able to apply for a hard-copy certificate signed by a registered psychologist.

Now, people from anywhere in the world interested in developing various organizational psychology or human resource skills can benefit from our renowned training.  Our training, which is always current, based on science and designed by top, government-registered organizational psychologists, is recognized as being exceptional.

Registering in our online programs will enable busy professionals to access this training on their own schedule and work at their own pace from any location equipped with the internet.

PsyAsia is also pleased to offer the design of custom e-learning courses. We will put together a course especially for your organization in the area of your choice (within our competency range) and allow access only by your employees!  For organizations who hire our psychologists to deliver real-life in-house training, we offer the additional free benefit of publishing the slides and quizzes to the Online Learning Centre for 2 weeks following the course to enable review and reflection of the material.

Have a great learning experience with PsyAsia International’s Online Learning Center.

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A message from our partner:

PsyAsia International is pleased to announce fresh dates for our popular psychometric assessment training in Asia.  Many thanks to clients who have held on whilst we firm up the dates.  In Hong Kong we are now only offering the GeneSys User Course, whereas in Singapore, at the request of clients we have reversed our previous decision to withdraw the Level A/B Psychometric Assessment at Work course.  We are however asking all registrants for the A/B course to read and sign additional terms after registering online.  The additional terms cover important issues such as undertaking to complete all pre-course work in full (previous delegates had often not done so, making them fall behind or even fail the exam and require extra tuition and remedial support) and clarification on additional fees that may be imposed for additional marking undertaken by us.  Most delegates will not have any problem with the new agreement.  The reason for its introduction is because we were going to remove the course altogether as a result of poorly performing delegates who did not undertake pre-course and were not committed to homework during the course.  Our clients have suggested such an agreement as a way of continuing to offer the course!

The dates are as follows.  We suggest interested parties sign up as soon as possible. Regular clients will know that this course usually runs at full capacity (no more than 15 delegates)  as very few providers of such training in Asia exist and where they do, the training is often not facilitated by award-winning doctoral-level psychologists with specialisation in psychometrics!  PsyAsia offers all of this and more!

GeneSys User Course
Hong Kong: 1-3 April 2008
Singapore: 28-30 April 2008

More details: click here

Psychometric Assessment at Work Course
Singapore only:
Level A: 21-23 May 2008
Level B: 28-30 May 2008

More details: click here

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Our partner, PsyAsia International, today announced dates for a free seminar in Hong Kong.  PsyAsia International cordially invites HR and allied professionals to a seminar in Hong Kong on 25 February 2008.  Some details follow below, whilst more details and online registration can be found at http://www.psyasia.com/seminars. The seminar will be presented in Cantonese.

Seminar Background and Content:
Psychometric tests are scientific tools that can be applied in various contexts for different purposes. Due to their proven effectiveness, they are becoming more and more popular among organisations nowadays, especially for those which are looking for more reliable and objective selection tools in order to preserve or even enhance their competitive advantage in their most valuable resources, their people. There are a large number of tests and testing systems available in the market but unfortunately their quality varies. Some marketeers who lack understanding of the science behind these tests are trying to take advantage of this trend. In such cases, unqualified test developers publish tests which are not scientifically tested and which certainly cannot achieve what they are supposed to be doing. Moreover, as psychometrics are relatively new to the Asian public, many people, including professionals who want to or are even currently using psychometric tests do not have adequate knowledge to choose proper tests or use them correctly. Therefore cautions have to be taken when choosing as well as implementing psychometric tests in order to gain the real benefits of using them. Actually there are at least three important considerations in putting the psychometric tests in place; the first one is, ‘what makes a test a good one?’ the second one is, ‘what test should be used?’ and finally ‘how to implement a test properly?’

In this seminar, Mr. Vincent Wong, an intern psychologist who has been trained in the area of psychometric testing will talk about how to choose a well developed test, how to select a test (or a number of tests) that suits your needs, and finally how to implement a test properly. Throughout the seminar, one of the world’s most advanced psychometric testing systems, GeneSys3™ will be introduced and used as a real-life demonstration of how psychometric tests actually operate. The seminar will be delivered in a way that is friendly to every potential user of psychometric tests, including those who currently know nothing or just a little about them. Attendees will gain understanding of how to choose a good test as well as how to implement it properly. Moreover, the critical features of the GeneSys3™ system as well as its advantages over other systems will also be noted. Dr. Graham Tyler will speak about any advanced issues and answer more technical questions should they arise during the event.

Seminar Outline:

• Popularity of psychometric testing
• The “bandwagon” of testing (i.e., profiteering without competence)
• What makes a good test
• Theoretical support
• Reliability
• Validity
• Norms
• Implementation of the testing system
• Security
• Number of tests available
• Profiling
• Flexibility of test administration
• On site vs off site
• Single vs multiple tests
• On-screen vs paper & pencil
• Norm group generation
• Reports
• Ease of report generation
• Different types of reports for various purposes
• Data Management
• Updates and adding credits
• Training

Presenter’s Credentials:
Mr. Vincent Wong is an intern psychologist with a Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology from Cardiff University (UK). He is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and holds BPS certification in psychometric assessment. Currently he is working towards chartered occupational psychologist status within the BPS. In addition to working with our team on consultancy and training assignments in organisational psychology, Vincent is responsible for Business Development at PsyAsia International.

More information & registration at: http://www.psyasia.com/seminars

The seminar will be presented in Cantonese.

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Our partner, PsyAsia International, today announced dates for a free seminar in Singapore.  In conjunction with The Raffles School of Psychology, PsyAsia International cordially invites HR and allied professionals to a seminar in Singapore on 1 March.  Some details follow below, whilst more details and online registration can be found at http://www.psyasia.com/seminars

Seminar Background and Content:
Psychometric tests are scientific tools that can be applied in various contexts for different purposes. Due to their proven effectiveness, they are becoming more and more popular among organisations nowadays, especially for those which are looking for more reliable and objective selection tools in order to preserve or even enhance their competitive advantage in their most valuable resources, their people. There are a large number of tests and testing systems available in the market but unfortunately their quality varies. Some marketeers who lack understanding of the science behind these tests are trying to take advantage of this trend. In such cases, unqualified test developers publish tests which are not scientifically tested and which certainly cannot achieve what they are supposed to be doing. Moreover, as psychometrics are relatively new to the Asian public, many people, including professionals who want to or are even currently using psychometric tests do not have adequate knowledge to choose proper tests or use them correctly. Therefore cautions have to be taken when choosing as well as implementing psychometric tests in order to gain the real benefits of using them. Actually there are at least three important considerations in putting the psychometric tests in place; the first one is, ‘what makes a test a good one?’ the second one is, ‘what test should be used?’ and finally ‘how to implement a test properly?’

In this seminar, Mr. Vincent Wong, an intern psychologist who has been trained in the area of psychometric testing will talk about how to choose a well developed test, how to select a test (or a number of tests) that suits your needs, and finally how to implement a test properly. Throughout the seminar, one of the world’s most advanced psychometric testing systems, GeneSys3™ will be introduced and used as a real-life demonstration of how psychometric tests actually operate. The seminar will be delivered in a way that is friendly to every potential user of psychometric tests, including those who currently know nothing or just a little about them. Attendees will gain understanding of how to choose a good test as well as how to implement it properly. Moreover, the critical features of the GeneSys3™ system as well as its advantages over other systems will also be noted. Dr. Graham Tyler will speak about any advanced issues and answer more technical questions should they arise during the event.

Seminar Outline:

• Popularity of psychometric testing
• The “bandwagon” of testing (i.e., profiteering without competence)
• What makes a good test
• Theoretical support
• Reliability
• Validity
• Norms
• Implementation of the testing system
• Security
• Number of tests available
• Profiling
• Flexibility of test administration
• On site vs off site
• Single vs multiple tests
• On-screen vs paper & pencil
• Norm group generation
• Reports
• Ease of report generation
• Different types of reports for various purposes
• Data Management
• Updates and adding credits
• Training

Presenter’s Credentials:
Mr. Vincent Wong is an intern psychologist with a Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology from Cardiff University (UK). He is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and holds BPS certification in psychometric assessment. Currently he is working towards chartered occupational psychologist status within the BPS. In addition to working with our team on consultancy and training assignments in organisational psychology, Vincent is responsible for Business Development at PsyAsia International.

Dr. Graham Tyler is a doctoral-level registered organisational psychologist (Australia and Hong Kong). He has been delivering training in psychometric assessment that leads to the British Psychological Society’s Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing for over 10 years. His research in psychometric test validity has been recognised by the British Psychological Society with an award for Scientific Contribution to Occupational Psychology. He has published his psychometric validation research in peer-reviewed international journals and he has reviewed related papers for the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (USA) and the Journal of Personality & Individual Differences. His MSc research studied the link between personality and well-being/stress disorders in ambulance crews, whilst his PhD research investigated the validity of personality theory and questionnaires for the prediction of work performance in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He has significant experience in testing, working with multi-national companies worldwide as well as working with the Governments of Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, Malaysia, Singapore and the UAE.

More information & registration at: http://www.psyasia.com/seminars

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The following is a message from our partner, PsyAsia International: 

PsyAsia International has released new dates for our Human Resource Management course amid a huge volume of enquiries from interested clients.  We’ve been running the course successfully as an in-house course for a number of years and have offered it occasionally as a public course during this time.  With the telephones and emails running hot asking us when we will run this course again, we have decided to open registration today for two courses in February - one in Hong Kong and one in Singapore.  The course has also been recently updated to include the most up-to-date thinking in the field and has become a 4 day course (up from 3 days).  We’re offering a 10% early-bird discount to those who register and pay before 31 December 2007.  There’s a further 5% reduction for registering 2 or more delegates on the same invoice.  All discounts expire on 31 December, so please reserve your place soon.

For course details and dates, please go to:
http://psyasia.com/human_resource_management_training_course.htm

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