Assessment Centre Guide
Introduction
Welcome to our guide to the Assessment Centre. Here we provide an overview of the exercises you will most likely face at your assessment centre:
You can access each section using the expandable menu within the navigation at the top of the page.
The ultimate screening tool
Assessment centres have been used for decades by employers as the final selection stage to ensure they get their hire decision right.
An assessment centre costs a significant amount of money for a company to run, and so it emphasises the importance they place in ensuring they hire the very best candidates for the role.
While the content of assessment centres varies between employers, the attributes they test tend to be broadly the same. Understanding what you may face in an assessment centre is essential to maximise your chances of out-scoring the other candidates who are all vying for that all important and valuable graduate contract.
Candidates that have prepared thoroughly tend to be the ones who win through at assessment centres.
Reflecting on your path up to now for a moment, it is worth acknowledging the investment of money and time you have made so far:
- You will have invested significant money in paying for your degree,
- countless hours of study
- you will likely have taken part in a number of CV-enhancing initiatives
- you will also likely have invested in psychometric test question banks to help with the application process.
All this time, money and effort has been with a single goal in mind – to give you the opportunity to secure a graduate or internship contract with a leading employer, and establish a lucrative and rewarding career. It therefore makes complete sense to make that last concerted push to ensure you ace the assessment centre.
Assessment centres are not to be underestimated
They are a serious and deliberately intensive vetting tool with serious challenges you must pass. Competition is fierce for graduate and internship roles and so it is essential to not just understand in detail what you will face at the assessment centre, but to know the strategies that will give you the leading edge over your competition.
This free written guide to the assessment centre gives you a good starting point for understanding the different exercises you will face at the assessment centre.
Our Assessment Centre Masterclass video course takes things to another level by showing you:
The critical mistakes that some candidates make
The attributes being tested, and how scoring works
Understanding the assessors and what they are looking for
How to navigate other candidates in group exercises
How to manage nerves and prime yourself to perform
…And much more
Given by an experienced assessor, the video course and accompanying sample exercises, interview question bank and assessment scoring sheets are the most comprehensive package available to you.
The course is designed with the single minded goal – to equip you to succeed at your assessment centre.
Job simulation: in-tray or e-tray exercise