The cost of poor recruitment can be as much as two and a half times basic salary eg. A £50,000 role could cost £125,000. It is, therefore, critical to get recruitment right first time and identify how to maximise the performance and contribution of new recruits in the long term.

An integral part of our Search and Advertising Led Selection Services, Collingwood offers a range of assessment tools. These tools complement our competency based interviewing processes and are aimed at removing "gut feel" from the recruitment process.

Employee Benchmarking

Using a range of market leading assessment tools, Collingwood is able to benchmark existing teams or individuals. This allows organizations to identify training needs and, therefore, prepare objective personal development plans. It is proven that this information will allow you to maximise employee performance.

Job Profiling

Collingwood offer a Job Profiling tool. Before you can recruit the right person to the right job you need to understand not only the candidate's profile but that of the role itself.

Job Profiler helps you to think of the key behavioural requirements of the job you are recruiting for in a natural and intuitive way. The process is structured to provide a very objective view of the characteristics required for that role.

Behavioural Assessment

Using a British Psychological Society accredited range of tools, we can provide insight into how people behave at work. Answers are provided to such key questions as:

What are their strengths and limitations?
Are they self starters?
How do they communicate?
What motivates them?

This assessment can be used to ensure candidates being interviewed have the right behavioural make-up to succeed in your work environment or be used as part of an employee development program. It can also allow managers to identify the style they should adopt with certain employees. The key benefits are:

Fast (only takes 8 minutes to complete) and accurate
Eliminates the need for guesswork
Enables more effective people management

Aptitude Testing

Using a proven range of tools we can measure a person's trainability and speed of learning. It provides a reliable, accurate and valid means of identifying how quickly a person can learn and retain new skills and procedures. This is an ability test not an intelligence test and uses 5 timed tests to measure perceptual speed, reasoning, working memory, number speed and accuracy and spatial visualisation.