Management Assessment - Free eBook in PDF Format

Book Description - ISBN 978-1-62620-783-9 (32 Pages)
This eBook explains what you can expect if you attend a management assessment center. These are commonly used when selecting graduates for management, developing supervisors into managers, and promoting line-managers to executive positions.

Chapter 1 - Management Assessment
A management assessment center is an event rather than a place. It usually takes place over a full day at an external location. Organizations use them when selecting graduates for management, developing supervisors into managers, and promoting line-mangers to executive positions.

Chapter 2 - Assessment Exercises and Format
The exact nature of your management assessment will be detailed in the agenda sent with your invitation letter. It could include management simulation exercises, a personality questionnaire, aptitude tests, and/or an interview.

Chapter 3 - What Assessors are Looking For
Assessors will have clear expectations of the type of person they envisage performing the role and will give marks accordingly. Understanding how assessors use scorecards will give you an appreciation of how your performance is recorded and how it relates to the competencies of the role.

Chapter 4 - Initial Preparation for a Management Assessment
Learn as much as possible about the organization by reading the annual report, financial statements, and any press releases you can find. Use this information to make sure that you are up to date and fully conversant with the jargon, processes, and issues that someone in the role would be expected to know.

Chapter 5 - Detailed Preparation for a Management Assessment
Use the invite letter, agenda, and role specification to work out what you will be expected to do on the day. There are several eBooks available on this website that can help you with aptitude tests, personality questionnaires, interview exercises, and competency-based interviews.

Chapter 6 - Professional Development and Assessment
Each new role you apply for should fit into a long-term career plan or offer the opportunity to acquire a specific and desirable skill. To ensure that every role you perform aids your development by enabling you to acquire the right competencies you will need a long-term career plan.

How to Prepare for Personality Test - Despite the controversy surrounding some personality tests, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of personality tests over the past ten years or so. The single most frequently given reason for increases in testing is the need to have a selection process which can withstand legal challenges. Increased test use can therefore be seen in part as a defensive strategy, adopted in response to regulation and legislation. Another factor is the ease with which these tests can now be delivered online.