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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

Psychometric Test Certification Training Dates in Singapore and Hong Kong

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

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

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

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 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.

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