What is an assessment centre?
Assessment centres are processes where employers examine candidates to determinate whether they are suitable for certain types of employment, especially management or military command positions.
- In assessment centres, group interviews take place by applicants completing numerous tasks to gauge suitability for a certain job role.
- It gives the applicant a chance to show and demonstrate the skills that they have whereas, in a traditional face to face interview you would not be able to.
- Some of the things that assessment centre can involve are team activities and role play and questions based on competency.
- To get the best use out of assessment centre’s it is used for volume recruitment campaigns for a high impact assessment of applicants with low number of tools and resources.