Assessment centres comprise of a number of exercises, such as; in-tray exercises, presentations, group exercises, interviews, ability tests and personality questionnaires. These exercises are designed to imitate the tasks and demands of the job for which a candidate is being considered and evaluate the candidate’s performance against specific criteria.
Assessment centres are very thorough and tend to accurately predict a candidate’s future performance. On the downside though, they do tend to be expensive and time consuming and so are predominantly used for more senior positions or graduate training programmes.
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