Psychometric Tests and Assessment at Work

Over the years, PsyAsia International has placed tremendous effort into putting together a knowledgebase at our website as well as a knowledge blog at assessmentcentral.com.  We continue to add to and develop these further.  We’re now offering you the opportunity to ask questions pertinent to you and for our psychologists to answer them at our blog.  Your question should be related to human resource management or business psychology. It can be under the categories listed at this blog or you may request a new category.  We may also open some questions/answers up for discussion and general comment if we feel relevant.  Please keep in mind that your question should be able to be answered within a blog submission (i.e., don’t ask anything that might require a very complex or long response!!).  Our psychologists will aim to respond to one question per day and the target time for the response is 10-15 minutes.  Answers will be posted at assessmentcentral.com and the PsyAsia knowledgebase. 

Please feel free to submit your questions now by emailing our ONLINE LEARNING SECTION. You must complete all details in the form accurately. We will not answer questions from those who enter FREE email addresses such as yahoo/google/msn etc or where a company name is not provided.  However, we will not mention your personal details in the response in order to protect your privacy. Thank you for your participation!

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Wondering what organisational psychology is and how it relates to HRM?  Come along to our seminar on 24 July in Causeway Bay.  The seminar will be run in Cantonese and English (2 sessions).  Registration is managed by the Hong Kong Institute for HRM.  Click below for more details and registration:

http://www.hkihrm.org/ihrm_eng/ih_eve_mon_read_01.asp?id=466

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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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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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The following external site explains our knowledge to date in these areas:
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF INTELLIGENCE

» The idea of g

» Types of Intelligence

» Intelligence, Heredity, and Environment
History
Evidence for Nature
Evidence for Nurture
Comments on Research
Conclusion

» Neuropsychological Testing
Normal Intelligence
Abnormal Examination and Brain Trauma
Personality

» Spectroscopy Data

» Disorders related to Intelligence

» Gender Differences
Self-Estimated Intelligence
Anatomical Differences
Gray vs. White Matter

» Artificial Intelligence
A Timeline of AI
Ancient History of AI
Modern History of AI
The Future of AI

» Age and Intelligence
Areas of Function
Effects of Lesions

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Gardner (1984) proposed that rather than a ‘g’ or general factor being responsible for an individual’s ability and therefore performance at work, multiple intelligences are responsible.

Read a summary of Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences here

Also see Howard Gardner’s home page at: http://pzweb.harvard.edu/PIs/HG.htm

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The following external link provides a multitude of resources that relate to the explanation and discussion of the ‘g’ factor of intelligence. Originally coined by Charles Spearman, ‘g’ stands for general:

Intelligence and Spearman’s ‘g’ factor

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Hans-Georg Michna explains how IQ is defined in this external article:

The Definition of IQ

IQ = Intelligence Quotient

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The following external resource provides an in-depth look at the thing that we call intelligence:

Intelligence: Knows and Unknowns
Report of a Task Force established by the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association.

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