Description

Selection tests are now common in interviews and this book covers everything you need to know from knowing what the tests are used for to how to do well in them.

This book explains why employers put you through these hoops, and why you shouldn't worry about them. It offers ways for you to prepare for, survive and improve your selection test results, assess your own ability and learn how test results are weighted against other selection methods.

This book will include comments from employers who use the tests, psychologists who design them, and applicants who have faced them. 

This book provides reassurance and plenty of genuine work-through examples. It covers everything right down to test anxiety, test simulations and misuse of tests.  

Features

• Learn what aptitude tests are used for and also learn how to do well in them.
• It offers ways to prepare for, survive and improve your selection test results, assess your own ability and learn how test results are weighted against other selection methods.
• It provides reassurance and plenty of genuine work-through examples.
• Includes comments from employers who use the tests, psychologists who design them and applicants who have faced them. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements   

Introduction   

 

Part 1  Brilliant tactics to pass aptitude tests   

Testing times   

A testing world

Preparation counts

The big day

Have you got personality?

Assessment and development centres

Tackling the in-tray, the irate customer and the boss

Talk your way to success

Something to discuss

Are you write for the job?

Reflecting on tests

 

Part 2   Practice material   

Part 3  Sources of information   

 

 

 

Back Cover

How many bumps are there on a pineapple and what is special about this number?

There is a serious mathematical answer to this question and it's an old favourite in numerical reasoning tests. Do you know the answer?

Selection tests are now common. Brilliant Tactics to Pass Aptitude Tests tells you what they are, what they are used for and what employers are looking for. It covers all the common tests right down to the lesser-known anxiety tests. There are a number of sample tests for you to test yourself and prepare, plus advice from employers who use them, psychologists who design them and and applicants who have faced them.

BRILLIANT OUTCOMES

• Know what to expect – all tests are covered
• Be prepared with the sample tests provided
• Insider tips reveal exactly what recruiters are looking for

Whether you're aiming at the big graduate recruiters, an internal promotion, a mid-career job move, or even change of profession, learn brilliant tactics to pass any of the tests they might throw at you.

Author

Susan Hodgson has run a university careers service and worked closely with students preparing them to take many of the tests covered here and helping them to deal with the results. She has also worked closely with employers, in many instances helping them to use her practising students as guinea pigs for some of their aptitude development tests.