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TalentLens News 3 - Spring 2013

Date: 14-05-2013

For those of you who missed it, here's the latest edition of TalentLens News:

TalentLens News 3 - Spring 2013

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New Item-banked Numerical Reasoning Test

Date: 10-05-2013

Name: tbc

What does the test measure? Numerical reasoning - see below

Format: online item-bank and paper tests

Time: Up to 30 minutes

Suitability: Graduate & supervisory levels and above

About the new test

For many years, RANRA has been TalentLens’s highly respected measure of numerical reasoning.

RANRA is, however, a fixed form test and its use has been restricted to supervised testing environments. With the introduction of the Watson-Glaser Unsupervised as a highly effective sifting test, many clients have requested a relevant accompanying item-banked numerical reasoning sifting tool. 

In response to these requests we have designed a new item-banked test with content pertinent to the modern world of business.

Find out more >

Free Numerical Reasoning test trial

Date: 28-03-2013

This research is now complete - thanks to all those who completed the tests.

Find out more about the New Item-banked Numerical Reasoning Test

New Watson-Glaser User Guide and Technical Manual Now Available

Date: 27-11-2012

This new manual provides in-depth technical information, including development of the new 40-item W-G Supervised and online, item-banked, W-G Unsupervised.

Useful sections and appendices provide practical information on how to use the tests in a work setting, application of the tests, and a step-by-step guide to administering and scoring.

Download user guide and technical manual (pdf)

New training dates announced

Date: 26-11-2012

We are delighted to announce 2013 dates for the following training courses. We're also pleased to say we have been able to hold the 2012 prices.

-Test User: Occupational Ability (formerly Level A)

-Test User: Personality GPTP (formerly Level B)

-Personality Qualification Training: Golden

-Personality Qualification Training: SOSIE

-GPTP Conversion

-SOSIE Conversion

See training dates / book your place >

Free webinars in 2012

Date: 23-11-2012

Thanks to everyone who attended one of our webinars over the last few months - we hope you found them useful.

We will be hosting more webinars (online seminars) soon - keep an eye on this page for further details.

Planned webinars:

Getting to Know Golden Personality Type Profiler  (Tuesday 3rd July 10.00am - 11.00am)

Tools for Selection (Wednesday 25th July 3.00pm - 4.00pm)

SOSIE - Insight from Personality and Values (Monday 10th September 3.00pm - 4.00pm)

Keys to Critical Thinking Tuesday (Tuesdsay 16th October 10.00am - 11.00am)

Take a free Situational Judgement Test

Date: 05-10-2012

TalentLens offer any recruiters the chance to trial an IRIS SJT for themselves.

This will allow you to experience for yourself how the tests are accessed, see the results and reports you will obtain and judge how relevant the content is for the role you are recruiting for.

Separate tests are availabe for: sales, customer service, graduate and junior manager roles.

IRIS tests are completed online and used for sifting job applicants, as assessment centre exercises or for training - when they can be taken by participants pre and post training to measure how much they have learned.  

To register for your free test send your details to iris@pearson.com stating which test you are interested in trialing

Email iris@pearson.com or call Alie Carvey on 01865 314921 if you need  more information

SJTs are work simulations designed to assess individuals against a broad range of behaviours or skills required for effective performance in a number of roles by exposing them to scenarios and situations typically encountered in the job.

The test should only take on average 20-30 minutes to complete.