Excelling at Assessment Centres - A handbook for technical and leadership assessments ⇒ Use it as a shortcut to your success!
Bestseller with over 130,000 readers
In this handbook Johannes Stärk passes on his know-how, his concentrated knowledge for your
optimal preparation for assessment centres, management audits, potential analysis, development centres etc., in other words
your career success. The German edition of this book with the original title ‘Assessment-Center erfolgreich bestehen’ has been one of the bestsellers among career guidebooks for years and has already helped more than
130,000 readers to prepare for an assessment centre.
Demanding assessment centre procedures
Hardly any other personnel selection procedure has experienced such a strong boom in recent years as the assessment centre. Have you received an invitation to the Assessment Centre? Congratulations, you have made it to the final! But this last step is a tough one. Although you are highly qualified, this does not mean that you automatically make the best impression in assessment centre tasks, such as in the employee appraisal, or that you are convincing in an ad hoc presentation about yourself. You may be overtaken by candidates who like to be in the spotlight but are less qualified than you.‘Excelling at Assessment Centres’ provides you with a well-stocked
toolbox of methods and strategies for
solving challenging assessment centre tasks with confidence and shows you
how to stand out from your competitors.
Excelling at Assessment Centres
The goal of this book is to prepare you in the best possible way for an assessment centre and to give you the decisive advantage for your assessment centre and your career!You will gain insights into the organisation and the process, but also into assessment criteria and finding results. The most frequently used assessment centre modules are presented in detail with the help of practical examples. You get an overview of the possible variants of these tasks as well as differentiated processing strategies for their solution. Useful tips help to deepen your knowledge of the methods. The book is perfectly suited for participants of internal assessment centres as well as for external applicants.
Success strategies, step-by-step instructions and best practice examples to solve the seven most frequently used assessment centre tasks
- Presentations
- Role-Play (Employee appraisals, discussions with peers, discussions with managers)
- Structured Interview
- Case Studies
- Group Discussions/ Team Meetings
- Psychometric Tests (cognitive performance tests, personality tests)
- In-tray / Management tasks
Strategies for other tasks
- Report
- Biographical Questionnaires
- Dispute Exercise
- Fact-finding
- Business Games
- Self-reflection
- Round of Introductions
With this book you will expand your ability to take action and your knowledge of methods - for a successful performance in the assessment centre and in everyday management!
Johannes Stärk - Assessment Centre Expert
- Founder of the consulting company Intertrainment and of the Assessment-Center-Online-Akademie.
- Experience with more than 10,000 clients who have been successfully prepared face-to-face for assessment centres, management audits, potential analyses and development centres.
- Due to his experience as an assessment centre developer, moderator and observer, he is highly qualified to speak and write from the assessor perspective.
