Talent Assessment Types

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Basic Skills Assessments are used when wanting to gain insights into basic work-related skills like:

• Basic Math Skills
• Basic Communication Skills
• Typing Skill/Speed
• Data Entry Speed & Accuracy
• Microsoft Office Suite Skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Basic Computer Literacy Skills
• Basic Office Skills

These timed assessments can be customized to fit your particular job needs and can include all or just a few of the ones noted above to help provide you with the insights you want and need to help make hiring decisions.

The Talent Screens—Interview Assistance Assessments are designed to augment your interview process by providing insights into decision-making and up to four other targeted competency areas that may be most important to the role and/or the organization's culture.

Talent Screens include:

• One personality assessment
• One Cognitive Assessments
• 2 page Talent Report

Talent Evaluations are designed to provide objective and independent insights into a candidate's skills, ability, and fit for an organization.  This objective and comprehensive review of an applicant can help you make sound decisions and ensure you are fully aware of someone's strengths and development areas before bringing them on board.  

Given that no one is perfect, our evaluations also offer insights on leveraging strengths and mitigating gaps to help ensure higher performance and a longer-term fit. 

This type of evaluation consists of two untimed personality assessments and three cognitive assessments.  The combination of these assessments allows clients to examine up to 20 different competencies.  Each client has the ability to use their own competencies or select from over 75 different empirically supported competencies that have already been developed and validated across dozens of industries and roles.  

This evaluation includes:

• Two personality assessments
• Three cognitive assessments
• 1.5 Hour Interview
• 8-10  page Talent Analysis with Risk Mitigation Report

Executive leaders can significantly impact an organization's performance and culture.  Given the substantial risk related to a leader's impact, it's important to get it right.  

Our executive selection process will provide you with the objective lens from which to consider each candidate and the critical information you need to make a sound decision about who leads your organization.  We use empirically supported leadership competencies to help provide a thorough evaluation of their skills, abilities, and experience.   

This evaluation includes:

• Biographical Data
• Two personality assessments
• Three cognitive assessments
• Strategic Planning Work Simulation/Exercise
• 2-2.5 Hour Interview
• 11-12 page Talent Analysis with Risk Mitigation Report

Developmental Assessments follow a similar process to Talent Evaluations.  The main difference is in the type of report provided.  Developmental reports focus on helping the individual consider self-driven learning, potential external and internal training, and job-related experience that can help them modify, enhance, and learn new skills.  These reports provide examples of exercises, tips, and tricks that can make learning easier.

This evaluation includes:

• Two personality assessments
• Three cognitive assessments
• 1.5 Hour Interview
• 8-10  page Development Report with Learning Recommendations

About how we can help you identify, select and develop talent contact us by:

Phone: 651.500.7904 

Email: info@sparknu.com