Assessment Platform
Graduate assessment
centre exercises
Easily assess candidate personality at work for better recruitment and selection.
Our graduate assessment centre exercises are designed to allow you to gauge a candidate’s suitability for a role with you by assessing them against key competencies, through a variety of engaging and insightful activities.
As well as the traditional paper and pencil format, designed to be used in face-to-face assessment centres, these assessments are also available in a virtual assessment centre format, which would allow you to run your assessment centre in a remote way.
Our graduate assessment exercises are designed with some of the following principles in mind:
Engaging Candidate Experience
Our exercises are designed with a candidate first philosophy. They include gasified elements to cut through impression management, ensure high face validity and create a positive candidate experience.
Rigorous Assessments
The suite comprises high standard assessment exercises appropriate for graduate level. Accurately assess against key competencies and assess potential from multiple angles.
Usability
Designed to be suitable for all graduate roles, regardless of industry. Current and relevant themes allow the exercises to be relevant across multiple organisational environments. Thorough materials and assessor guidance are provided, allowing you to pick up and use the assessments with ease.
Minimise bias
Ensuring assessments are accessible for all, and minimising the potential for subjective bias in the assessment process. Care is taken in exercise design to minimise personality differences that are known to unfairly impact the assessment of candidates suitability (e.g. in group activities)
How does it work?
The exercises all take place in a fictional workplace, Novelix:
A Diversity & Inclusion task force has been put together to help build and implement the organisations Diversity and Inclusion initiative.
Each candidate is told that they have been asked to join the D&I task force, and will be getting involved in a variety of activities to support the group.
Alongside the assessment centre exercises themselves, the suite offers you the following additional resources, which help to prepare your candidates and ensure they are in the right mind frame to do their best:
Sent out before the assessment event, this gives candidates an overview of what they can expect from the day, and how they can do their best
Regardless of the exercises chosen, this is given to candidates to set the scene and gives some background information on the context of the organisation and the D&I task force. Candidates are given time to review this information before starting any of the exercises.
These are short, game like activities that help to re-energise candidates and help to ensure a positive and engaging candidate experience.
Choose your exercises
You can choose to include any number of the following activities.
Your decision on which exercises to include should be guided by the competencies you are looking to assess.
Analysis
Candidate is given a variety of data and resources to analyse & review, before collating this into a report to present back to a senior manager. This can be presented in the written form, or through an interactive ‘pitch’.
Group
Working in pairs, and then a larger group, candidates are asked to review a set of possible D&I initiatives, and create a shortlist of recommendations for investment.
In-tray
Candidate is given a variety of tasks to review, including emails, phone messages and project work. They must outline what action they need to take to complete each task, and organise the tasks in order of priority.
Coaching role play
Candidate meets with an individual that they are ‘mentoring’ to help support them to resolve an issue they are experiencing. Influencing role play: Candidates meet with a senior colleague to discuss a certain issue. They are required to present an influential case, and gain buy in.
