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Graduate Assessment Centre Exercises

Easily assess candidate personality at work for better recruitment and selection.

 

 

GRADUATE ASSESSMENT CENTRE EXERCISES

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:

Graduate assessment centre exercises

Additional resources

  • Candidate preparation guide:

    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

  • Case study pack:

    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.

  • Ice breakers and energisers

    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.

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