The controversial 360° assessment technique was developed in the United States and Great Britain in companies that wanted to better evaluate managerial standards to help them advance. Originally, 360° focused solely on personal development. A 1999 study by Insep [1] indicated that around 20% of...
As true reverse feedback, 360° assessment is used for profiles that have a circular interaction with their environment, namely salespeople, managers and executives (who are surrounded by supervisors, colleagues, subordinates, internal or external customers, suppliers and partners). 360° assessment's initial objective is to achieve an understanding...
Most requests for training are made by employees when they find they’re struggling or don’t know enough about a particular subject. Sometimes, an annual performance appraisal can also produce interesting results that suggest areas for development. We all expect a lot of performance appraisals, which are designed to...
You’ve made your mind up, you’re going to set up an assessment center-type process. So how do you go about it? This is how you put all the conditions in place to make the assessment a success. The assessment center is a very specific process...
What Is an Assessment Day? The assessment day is often (but not always) the final stage in the application process. Assessment days can take place at the employer’s offices or at a private assessment centre. You are evaluated through a series of individual tasks, all of which are aimed at...
It’s easy to assess an employee or candidate’s technical skills using simulations, so why not use the same technique for finding out how good someone is at a particular soft skill? Assessment centers are used to recreate the complexity of real work situations requiring strategic and/or operational analysis...
About TNT Express France To identify the key skills and potential of operational managers at TNT Express France, Apostrof developed a tailor-made assessment programme run as an assessment center. TNT Express is one of the world’s largest express delivery companies. On a daily basis, TNT Express delivers close to one...
The assessment center is a technique used for skills assessment and for detecting potential using role-play situations. At Apostrof, we often use this technique for assessing candidates. In the article Behind the scenesof an Apostrof Assessment Center we looked at the key points of this type of...
Do you need clearer vision when recruiting internally or externally? Would you like to have a proper diagnosis of an employee’s skills and potential? Based upon the Assessment Center methods, Apostrof's methodology involves setting up a series of exercises closely resembling the working environment of a particular job,...
About VERSION INTERNATIONALE Combining two sets of skills – software engineering and languages — Version Internationale was founded 25 years ago in Lyon by Françoise and Patrick Bajon. Version Internationale was a pioneer in multilingual translation in France for major software publishers and, over the years, has acquired acknowledged expertise...
