Candidate Testing and Assessment

When you need to assess a candidate’s mechanical abilities, job-related skills, or workplace behaviors, Catalyst Connection can help you implement an array of proven testing tools:

Customized Assessments

Our staff, trained in industrial and organizational psychology, can develop assessments customized to specific organizational or job requirements.

Mechanical Reasoning and Technical Skills

Not only do our industrial and organization psychologists have access to a wide range of professionally developed mechanical reasoning and technical skills testing, they also ensure that the tests you use will be validated for the jobs you have and the skills you need.

• Mechanical concepts (Pearson): basic mechanical ability; ability to visualize and understand mechanical and spatial relationships.
• Electrical aptitude (Ramsay Corp.): practical knowledge in science, abstract thinking, math, physics, and logic.
• Precision measurement (Ramsay Corp.): ability to inspect and follow directions, including basic shop math and layout skills, as well as ruler, micrometer, and gauge reading.

WorkKeys® Problem-solving Skills

• Applied Mathematics: ability to apply mathematical reasoning, critical thinking, and problem-solving techniques to work-related problems.
• Applied Technology: problem-solving in thermodynamics, mechanics, fluid dynamics, and electricity.
• Locating Information: ability to find information in, or insert information into, workplace graphics; skill in comparing, summarizing, and analyzing information found in related graphics.
• Observation: skill in paying attention to and remembering work-related instructions, demonstrations, and procedures despite distractions.
• Reading for Information: reading levels ranging from simple instructions to regulatory documents, depending on job requirements.

Personality, Integrity, and Job Fit

• Predictive index: required job behaviors and potential response
• Personal Skills Assessment, potential job behavior, performance and productivity tools:
  • - Performance: measure tendencies toward unsafe behaviors and attitudes toward work.
  • - Talent: predict characteristics such as cooperation, discipline, influence, and stability.
  • - Fit: determine interests and values to determine the fit between a candidate and an occupation in an   organization.

Benefits

Appropriate testing during the hiring and evaluation process enables you to:

• Identify the best matches for open positions.
• Avoid bad hires.
• Identify training needs up front so needed training can be provided when it's needed most.
• Conduct testing that complies with EEOC hiring requirements.