Psychometrics for your entire Employee Lifecycle

Psychometrics combined with conversation – a winning combination.

The value psychometric assessments bring to the recruitment and selection process is widely accepted – that all important objectivity and reduced bias.

What many organisations don’t realise is that the insights provided by the assessments are effective in accelerating individual performance during onboarding, performance and development conversations, career planning and organisational change.

Additionally, psychometric assessments provide invaluable insights as to team preferences, strengths, weaknesses and help to identify areas for improvement.

Psychometric assessments measure potential performance (such as ability, aptitude, or attainment) and personal qualities (such as motivation, personality, values, and preferred ways of working).

Psychometrics during Recruitment and Selection

Davidson’s research and business impact studies have shown that sustainable workplace performance, increased profit and competitive advantage can be achieved through effective utilisation of psychometric assessment into recruitment and selection processes.

Business benefits include:

• Risk minimisation: ensuring your workforce meets safety and behavioural requirements
• Maximise quality hires: improve the likelihood of selecting people who are high performers
• Reduce cost per hire: identify processes to improve efficiencies in recruitment
• Improve consistency: having one set of assessments and reports to successfully inform your recruitment decisions

Psychometrics targeted at Onboarding

As competition for talent continues to increase, early onboarding and support is now considered a vital HR tool to help mitigate the risk of preventable negative outcomes such as employee turnover.

All new hires undergo a ‘learning curve’, during which they temporarily perform below the level of a fully productive employee. Consequently, new hires must be supported during this learning curve period.

Using psychometric data to tailor the employee’s onboarding process helps to set them up for success. In Davidson’s experience, in the current market, where talent is being drawn from all corners, new hires may be from outside the organisation’s sector or industry. They may not have all the experience required or all the necessary connections and relationships. Tailoring onboarding to minimise these gaps in a way that maximises the individual’s learning preferences makes good sense.

Psychometrics targeted at Learning and Development

The team at Davidson have expertise working with clients and using psychometric assessments in the design of professional development programs, including what success looks and the measures of that success.

Measurable outcomes that we have delivered for our clients include:

• Leadership Capability: Improvement of Leadership Capability of participants by 32% within 12 months
• Self-Awareness: Improvement of self-awareness of Leaders by 74% within 12 months
• Value for Money: Reduction in development costs by 33%
• Retention: 90% retention of all identified high potential leaders over a 2-year period
• Succession Management: 60% of high potential participants identified for succession achieved successful promotion within 12 months of being identified

Research indicates that leaders who create environments in which employees can make the most of their talents, have more productive teams, with less employee turnover.

Leaders who recognise the individual strengths of their team members have:

"By focusing on the individual strengths of team members, engagement jumps from 9% to 73%"

Psychometric assessments such as personality and cognitive ability assessments are efficient, cost-effective and provide insight into people’s general preferences and abilities.

Why Davidson?

At Davidson we have:

• Exclusive access to the largest suite of psychometric and job-family assessments in Australia
• Best-practice assessment validation and norms (including external review and validation)
• Training for internal HR and hiring managers
• A team of HR and Organisational Development specialists and Consulting Psychologists