Talent Spotter
Talent Spotter® from Head Light Communications helps you improve the calibre of candidates entering your recruitment process.
As with most recruitment processes, each stage becomes more time consuming and labour-intensive - Talent Spotter® can help you maximise the return your company receives from this investment by helping you focus your time and effort on progressing the most promising candidates.
Individual report sent to administrator by email.
Cohort comparison report, allowing you to sift and select the most promising candidates.
With Talent Spotter®, your recruitment campaign is supported by a bespoke on line situational judgement test that we develop working collaboratively with high performers in your organisation. This provides the real-world challenges that candidates could be expected to face in the work place. Based on their responses to these challenges, and scored in terms of competencies required to perform the role to a high standard, you can decide whether they should proceed to the next stage of the recruitment process.
Instant Insight
Within moments of test completion, you will receive a report by e-mail, enabling you to make an objective and evidence-based decision. Alternatively, after a period of testing has been completed, the test scores of all candidates are normalised allowing you to sift and select the most promising candidates in the group.
Well written Situational Judgement questions do not have clear-cut right or wrong answers. They test the candidate's ability to assess the situation and consider the effectiveness and consequence of each response option. The options force the candidate to balance conflicting or competing values, such as a desire to provide great customer service and the need to demonstrate commercial awareness. Some options may be effective would would be likely to have undesirable consequences, others may be less effective but not have have negative consequences.
Situational Judgement questions also require the candidate to make multiple decisions about a situation, assessing not only what the candidate would choose to do, but also what they would choose not to do. This provides insight into how effective a candidate may be when they are under pressure or have limited options available to them.
Sample question from an SJT for a customer services role.
Assessing candidates using situational judgement as opposed to other methods offers the following benefits:
- Greater predictive validity – two of the three determinants of performance (job-relevant knowledge and skills) are tested using situational judgement whereas other testing methods test only one aspect.
- High ‘face’ validity – candidates can see that the test closely resembles the role of interest and there is evidence that this motivates them to complete the test to the best of their ability, further increasing the tests’ predictive validity
- Avoid discrimination concerns – there is scientific evidence that assessments based on situational judgement do not favour or discriminate against sub groups such as ethnicity or gender.
- Effective anti-faking – our scoring methods guard against ‘career’ test takers seeking to second guess the test and distort the results or their position.
- Supports competency-based interviewing – the candidate score report indicates any areas of weakness that potential interviewer could choose to explore.
- Self Qualification – providing your candidates with a realistic impression of the nature and demands of the role helps them to confirm, or otherwise that the role is one they would be keen to secure. Those that choose not to complete the test effectively qualify themselves out saving you time and money later.
Talent Spotter® runs as a web-served application, hosted by Head Light Communications. All user access is via a web-browser.
Main Benefits
- High availability - Talent Spotter® is available every day,
all day and in all the major languages supporting global recruitment
campaigns.
- Objective & accurate – each candidate is assessed in the
same way using an objective competence based method. Scoring is
performed automatically without need for assessors or test markers.
- Instantaneous – within minutes, the result of a
candidate’s assessment is in your in-box including scores by question,
by competence group and overall.
- Cost effective – when compared to any other medium to high
volume campaign, assessments designed and delivered this way offer
substantial cost advantages.
- Integrates paper-based & online – Talent Spotter® supports tests
taken using a paper-based questionnaire. We offer a scanning and marking
service that uses the same Talent Spotter® technology – you’ll receive
a report from a paper-based test with the same information and format as
if it was taken on-line.
- Robust candidate comparison - candidates' scores are normalised against the full group and expressed as T-Score and Percentile Rank.
To find out more information about Talent Spotter®, Click here to access our information request page.
