ASSESSMENT & DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: WHEN AND WHY?
By Near East Consulting Group
Assessment & Development Center
As a reminder, Assessment & Development Center is a multi-dimensional methodology that proved to be highly effective for Selecting the right people or Promoting the best qualified and Developing high potentials.
It consists of multiple assessments of multiple competencies by multiple assessors, enabling the Employer to identify Star Performers and Real Talents to hire or to grow.
Since launching its Assessment & Development Center in Lebanon, NECG assisted several large local and multinational organizations from different sectors in selecting, promoting and developing its key employees. Typically, these organizations have used our Center services when faced with the following situations:
· No consensus: Candidate A and Candidate B are both good with great credentials, whom to hire?
· The Employer wants an external, objective and non-biased opinion of assessors about an internal or external candidate; making sure of what the candidate can really do instead of what he/she says can do
· The Employer wants to know whether the Candidate can handle pressure and how s/he works with others
· Is the employee ready for his/her next promotion? Or new role and function?
· The Employer is facing wrong hire situations resulting in high costly turnover
· The Employer wants to differentiate the organization from competition and build the brand.
Even rejected candidates appreciate the process, learn more about themselves and about the role and the employing organization itself.
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