Informed Consent

Psychometric Assessment Results can only be used for the purpose to which the candidate consented. To give some examples.

1. If a candidate agreed to be assessed for a Superintendent position, his results may not at later stage be used to consider him for a different position.

2. If this same candidate is appointed to the role, and then later struggles in it, then his psychometric assessment report cannot be consulted to try to understand why this is the case.

In both cases, the candidate would have to be asked to provide his consent anew.

Uninterpreted Use

Only suitably qualified psychological professionals may interpret psychometric test results and reports. To provide a lay person with a report and allow them to draw conclusions from it, without any involvement of a suitably qualified psychological professional, would constitute uninterpreted use of psychometric test results. Besides being unethical, this is likely to result in poor decision making which could have adverse results for both the individual and the organisation. You may therefore, only use a psychometric feedback report under the supervision of a suitably qualified psychological professional.

Sharing and Storage of Reports

Only suitably qualified psychological professionals may make copies of; distribute and store psychometric assessment reports. As a line manager, you will be provided with a Management Feedback Report a few days prior to the Feedback Discussion. You are permitted to keep the original copy sent to you until the Feedback Discussion whereafter it must be immediately deleted.

Terms and Conditions

Psychometric Assessments provide very sensitive and confidential information about a candidate. For this reason, a basic understanding of Psychometric Assessments - as contained in this Psychometric Assessment Orientation website - is required before any information arising from such an assessment can be shared with a lay person. We will not be able to provide any feedback to you unless you certify that you have read and understood all 3 parts of the Psychometric Assessment Orientation. Kindly therefore use this link and complete the acknowledgement form:

Click here and then complete the POA confirmation submission

More on Assessment

We be making a range of articles and short training videos on assessment available in the near future. We will cover topics such as:

• Evidence Based Assessment

• Best Assessment Practise

• Capabilities and Competencies

• How to Identify High Potential Employees

• Emotional Intelligence

• Case Studies

A list of completed videos will be published on our website soon and will be updated as more are added. We also have a free online training program on assessment and psychometrics available. It is self - paced and will take approximately 12 hours to complete in your own time. A Beta condensed version is also available which will take about 90 minutes to complete. Kindly follow in the link below if you are interested in gaining access to the articles, training videos or online training programs. We will be in touch with you regarding next steps.

https://eqiqtraining.yolasite.com/development-in-assessment.php