Psychological Assessment

Psychological Assessment provides information on mental abilities, leadership and decision making style, and cultural fit. It can also highlight an individual's fracture points and coping styles, as well as any counterproductive or destructive behaviours.

It is a powerful addition to a range of personal and organisational activities, such as recruitment and selection decisions. Choosing the right people, whether as part of a recruitment drive, in promotion or in succession planning, is fundamental to the success of your organisation. Wrong selection decisions can make for unnecessary financial outlays and waste a great deal of time and other resources. Psychological assessment can provide an additional insight into how candidates may operate in a team environment. It can help clients plan how to motivate and manage the successful candidates, and how best to provide the right development opportunities for the appointees and to anticipate potential stressors and ‘fracture points’.

Other areas where psychological profiling can add value include:

- Succession planning

- Career development / change

- Individual coaching

- Team composition and development

The profiling process typically involves

- Identifying key demands of current and future roles

- Recommending the best psychometric, 360° and non-psychometric tools to carry out profiling

- Test administration and interpretation

- In-depth feedback session with an experienced psychologist

- Assessment of strengths, working style, preferred culture, and motivators

- Identifying barriers to performance, development areas and appropriate action

- Action planning for future development

OPS is one of the UK’s centres of independent excellence where psychometrics are concerned. Our consultants have access to all major personality and ability tests, but aren’t tied to any single test publisher. This allows us to use and recommend instruments purely on technical merit and relevance.

For more detailed information, please download our Psychological Profiling brochure.

"From the brief given, OPS delivered the required professional and efficient service and were flexible and responsive to our requirements and timescales. I have been very satisfied with the results from this activity. I would not hesitate in recommending OPS."

MAS Group Finance Director, BAE Systems