Holland & Tisdall - Assessment Centres

A Competitive Edge

We work closely with our clients to design bespoke assessment days tailored to their requirements. By working with Holland & Tisdall not only will you be able to reduce the time to hire via a more efficient recruitment process, you will also be able to improve the depth and consistency of your recruitment process, meet more candidates and compare them simultaneously. In addition the feedback from all our candidates (successful or not) from our assessment days is always very positive, hence promoting your reputation in the market as a serious employer.

We will meet with you before hand to help design a half or full assessment centre, provide all of the resources needed for that day and commit one of our consultants to run the centre at your office, all for the same contingent fee as before.

Advantages

By introducing an assessment centre you can -

Reduce the time you need to commit to the hiring process
Whilst increasing the time spent assessing each candidate
Improve the depth of your assessment process
Improve the reputation of your company in the market
Have the best opportunity to close them against, and before your competition

What are the options?

Holland & Tisdall assessment centres are designed especially for our client needs, drawing on the wealth of assessment tools available to ensure candidate selection is focused on our clients' competencies. Below is a selection of the tools we prefer to use;

Ice breaker games
Team building exercises
Competitive analysis exercises
Sales and Recruitment focused role plays
Group debates and persuasion analysis
Candidate Presentations
Paired self-assessment
Focused interviewing

A Competency Framework Approach

All of our centres use a competency framework as the basis for assessing candidates. Working with you we will establish well-defined, clear and relevant criteria to assess your candidates individually and against and each other. This is particularly useful to compare candidates on the day and across different assessment days over time, ensuring a consistent benchmark for candidates and a structured framework for detailed feedback.

What we will provide

The Candidates! - Pre-vetted, by telephone and face-to-face
All the materials for the day. Information cards for candidates, teaching cards for the assessors, scorecards for the assessors
A Holland & Tisdall Consultant to run the event

What we need from you

A private area to host the event
A decision maker to assess the candidates
A week's notice to allow us time to source a strong shortlist of candidates

What to do next

For more information contact Dan Tisdall on 020 7377 0706 or Dan@HollandAndTisdall.com