Psychometric Tests and Performance at Work

PsyAsia International is pleased to host a free online seminar (webinar) which will be presented by Management Consultant Jim Bowden. Jim is based in Brisbane, Australia. He, along with Professor Richard Hicks, is the developer and publisher of the Apollo Profile which PsyAsia distributes in Asia.

Jim’s webinar will take you through the Apollo Profile. He will talk about how it was developed and how it is different from other personality assessments given that it compares your candidate with excellence. Jim will also demonstrate the Best Match mass screening system as well as the new Apollo Select system.

No need to leave your desk and scheduled to run during the lunch hour (12.30pm China/Hong Kong/Singapore), this webinar will be useful for anybody involved in human resource decisions, including HR and Training Managers, Coaches, Career and School Counsellors and Psychologists.

Title: Comparing your potential employees with excellence - Using the Apollo Profile: Psychometric Test and Profiling System

Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM SGT

System Requirements

PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/551941807

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PsyAsia International is pleased to invite you to a free webinar which focuses on the use of the Identity Self-perception Questionnaire to improve employee selection decisions.  The developers and publishers of Identity will log-in from the UK to present to our audience.  For more information and online registration, kindly visit:

http://www.psyasia.com/singapore_human_resource_seminars.htm

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Please click on the link below to view the available presentations for Saville Consulting assessments, the Identity Self-Preception Questionnaire and the Apollo Profile:

http://www.psyasia.com/supportsuite/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=view&parentcategoryid=29&nav=0

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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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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

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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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