Designing your bespoke assessment centre
For when your assessment process must meet your precise needs
When we develop your bespoke assessment centre we ensure that it is uniquely designed to meet your specified purpose and objectives. We work with you to determine your objectives to ensure that the assessment centre:
- Communicates positive messages to your recruitment customers – candidates, assessors and the business
- Assesses your specific success criteria, leadership model or competencies
- Differentiates you from your competitor employers
- Provides an engaging and memorable experience for participants
Making assessment engaging: The Odyssey concept
Your bespoke assessment centre is an experience that should be remembered by your participants for a long time. Your assessors should never feel bored because we build your assessment centre to include variety, humour and surprise.
We do this using our Odyssey concept for exercise design. Our assessment events are based around an evolving theme, which, like a story, has a beginning, a middle and an end. Like a journey or an adventure, assessment exercises developed using the Odyssey approach evoke a range of human emotions and motivations. These vary depending on the purposes and nature of the event, but may include: challenge, passion, humour, feedback, success, surprise and learning for both candidates and assessors.
Creative exercise formats
Rather then rely on tired exercise formats we design assessments that are unique to your needs. We avoid old fashioned group exercises and favour focused group tasks. We avoid in-basket tests and develop analysis exercises based on the real job. We ensure interviews are designed to identify all the critical strengths and concerns associated with each candidate. We ensure that online assessment results gathered at first round are integrated with assessment decisions and interviews at your assessment centre.
Find out more
You can learn more about our approach to bespoke assessment centres in our case studies section or contact us to explore how we can help you.
