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Psych Testing
Some of the positions we recruit for require more than a skills assessment. In this instance, MSSA Care Personnel offers psychological testing to our clients.
Through our associated Vedior company Jarrah Consulting, Psytech tests (and many more) can be administered directly onscreen using GeneSys ( A Jarrah Consulting exclusively licensed product). GeneSys takes care of all the test related instructions, examples and timings. It can be set up to administer a single test or an entire battery of measures.
To facilitate test administration in remote locations, GeneSys can create and install a system with a fully working version of any on-screen test or battery installed on the system. These electronic versions of the test booklets can be administered directly from a CD or installed on to a stand-alone or networked PC. Data generated from the assessment can later be imported back into the main system for scoring and reporting.
Scoring and Interpretation
Data from paper and pencil tests can be captured either via keyboard in raw or item response scores, or via the optional medium of a scanner. Once the results are stored in the GeneSys database, they can be interpreted in a variety of ways to meet particular assessment requirements and situations.
All Psytech tests have a choice of associated narrative reports including individual feedback, decision-maker reports, group reports, profile-match reports and many more. All reports have been compiled by psychologists with years of experience in interpreting particular tests. In some cases the reports have been produced by the test authors themselves thus providing invaluable psychological expertise at the touch of a button.
Types of Assessment
There are usually two types of tests conducted at this level - aptitude tests and personality questionnaires. Aptitude tests will test the applicant's ability in numerical, verbal, logical reasoning and sometimes will also test their ability in spatial and diagrammatic reasoning.
These tests are timed and are often designed so that they actually won't be expected to finish answering all the questions. It is important to remember the tests are just one part of the assessment process and they give the assessors an added dimension to the information already supplied via the application form and other contact with the applicants.
Personality questionnaires, or more accurately, personal inventories, seek to define the type of person you are looking to hire, e.g. how they relate to people or how they would react in a certain situation. Unlike aptitude tests, there are no right or wrong answers, and the completion of the questionnaire isn't timed. Applicants are advised the best policy is to answer the questions as honestly as possible and not try to second guess what they think an organisation is looking for.
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