Assessment of the Potential

This method helps  identify the potential of human resources, analysing capabilities and individual  characteristics, and guide their  development within the company structure to better cover current or future positions. This tool is useful for career development plans and professional growth of every single candidate, and it also helps understand wheher a candidate is suitable to cover new roles. The method can be used for employees at all levels in those companies whose goal  is to improve the management of its resources and the organization efficacy.

The system of assessing the potential is planned according to the requirements necessary for the specific positions in a given context; this allows the realisation of flexible and custom-made actions. The general terms of approach foresee the definition of the traits to analyse and evaluate, the choice of tools and methodology, the assessment phase, the feedback of the collected results to the Client and in some cases to those that have been evaluated.

The assessment methods can be individual or collective. Each time, together with the Client we choose the tools, among the set of tests already in use or by planning new ones ad hoc. The tests may recreate recurrent or meaningful working situations so to pinpoint the operating procedures and the behaviour adopted by those involved.

Assessments of Competences

This activity helps to define the system of the distinctive competencies that the Client considers essential for the development of a specific area or a particular activity sector, for reorganization or technological transformation projects as well as the redesigning of career paths.

The competencies are considered as organized sets of knowledge and abilities, procedures and typical ways of thinking, referred to tasks or working situations.

What emerges is a process through which the company tries to identify and check the level of adequacy of the resources, verifying the levels of competencies that a candidate may have.

This tool is also an opportunity of improvement for the individuals, which supports and promotes their growth, through the development of a higher level of awareness of their abilities and the elaboration of a professional development project.

Tools

Some of the tools mainly used by Euren InterSearch in the stages of potential and competence evaluation are:

• Personal interview/half-structured interview
• Aptitude tests
• Personality tests
• Achievement tests/technical tests
• assessment center
• Case simulations
• Stress interview
• Role playing
• Development Center