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
The Apollo Profile - 4 August 2008 - 4pm-5.30pm - SINGAPORE
Mr. Jim Bowden, Managing Director of the Apollonean Institute is based in Brisbane, Australia. He will be in Singapore to run a 90 minute interactive educational seminar dedicated to the Apollo Profile. Jim will discuss the development of this unique assessment, along with its advantages and administration and report options. The Apollo Institute has recently released BestMatch and Apollo Profiler which are useful premium add-ons to the classic Apollo system. Jim will talk briefly about these innovations too. Every attendee who registers and pays for their place at the seminar before 31 July will be invited to complete their own Apollo Profile online before the seminar. They will then receive their complimentary report at the seminar and Jim will explain to the group the meaning of the various report sections and scales. The seminar outline is as follows:
introduction to Apollo: why developed, how developed
how Apollo is different (comparison with excellence rather than average)
what Apollo assesses (basic model and scales)
how Apollo was validated
the Apollo process (add candidate to system, candidate completes test, client generates report)
report options
attendee receives own Apollo report
go through basics of the report given to attendees
brief presentation on BestMatch and Job Profiler
Kindly note that the fee of SG$65 for the seminar partially contributes to our various expenses, but in the main the seminar is subsidised by PsyAsia International. However, all attendees will be entitled to use the SG$65 as a credit against Apollo training or credits purchase via PsyAsia International within 3 months of the seminar.
To register, please visit: http://www.psyasia.com/singapore_human_resource_seminars.htm
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Many people mistakenly believe that the process of choosing which applicant to hire for a job is recruitment. Recruitment is actually the process of obtaining an applicant pool. So, placing advertisements for an available position would be part of the recruitment process. Once we have a pool of applicants to choose from, we then move on to the selection process. Here, we use different methods (e.g., interviews, psychometric tests, assessment centres) in order to choose or select a person for the job. This therefore is selection.
The following shows the trend in recruitment and selection tools in Hong Kong. After the application form, the most popular assessment methodology is interviews by untrained interviewers! This is then followed by reference checking. More reliable and valid forms of assessment such as personality tests, aptitude tests and assessment centres are used rarely by comparison. This pattern applies for manual, clerical and managerial jobs.
By contrast, Robertson & Smith (2001)* found that aptitude tests were the best predictors of performance at work. Personality tests and assessment centres were also found to be better predictors of performance than interviews carried out in an unstructured manner by untrained interviewers.
The positive way forward in Hong Kong then would be increased use of reliable and valid aptitude and personality assessments for most levels of employee and use of assessment centres for higher level employees. Additionally, organisations and their HR departments should ensure appropriate training of all interviewers, even if they have been interviewing for years and consider themselves to be experts. Years of experience does not equate to years of competence!
*Robertson, I. T., & Smith, M. (2001). Personnel selection. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 74(4), 441-472.
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