Assessment Centres and Psychometric Selection

Interviews predict job performance poorly, which is why organisations add tests and exercises, and why a badly run assessment adds cost and a legal exposure without improving the decision. This course covers doing it properly. Delegates work through job analysis and the competencies an assessment must actually measure, selecting instruments including ability, personality and situational judgement measures and what each does and does not predict. Assessment centre design follows: exercise selection, matrices, assessor training and the observation and classification discipline that keeps ratings comparable. Integration sessions and reaching a defensible decision are covered. Fairness, bias and adverse impact are addressed directly, along with the regulatory position on test use. The course closes on candidate feedback and validation.

3 day course

Course objectives

Analyse a job and define the competencies to be measured
Select instruments matched to what they actually predict
Design an assessment centre with an appropriate exercise matrix
Train assessors to observe, record and classify consistently
Run an integration session and reach a defensible decision
Address fairness, bias, adverse impact and the regulatory position
Give candidate feedback and validate the process against outcomes

Who should attend

Human resources and recruitment practitioners
Assessors and assessment centre administrators
Industrial psychologists and talent staff
Line managers participating in selection
Learning and development staff assessing potential

Course outline

01Adding cost and exposure without a better decision
02Job analysis and competency definition
03Ability, personality and situational judgement measures
04What each instrument predicts
05Assessment centre design and exercise matrix
06Assessor training and rating discipline
07Integration and decision making
08Fairness, adverse impact, feedback and validation

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for Assessment Centres and Psychometric Selection
Dates	Venue	Format	Price
25 to 27 November 2026	Windhoek, Namibia	Classroom	R14,950 per delegate
30 December 2026 to 1 January 2027	Kampala, Uganda	Classroom	USD 995 per delegate
6 to 8 January 2027	Online	Online	R6,500 per delegate
1 to 3 February 2027	Johannesburg, South Africa	Classroom	R14,950 per delegate
3 to 5 March 2027	Nairobi, Kenya	Classroom	USD 995 per delegate
10 to 12 March 2027	Lusaka, Zambia	Classroom	USD 995 per delegate

Assessment Centres and Psychometric Selection

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