Certified Assessment Center Analyst
This course is intended for HR professionals involved in the design, planning, and implementation of assessment centers. The program develops both the proficiency and understanding that would help the person running an assessment center more effectively. This program would equip the professionals with the skill and knowledge so that he/she is able to:
- To enable participants to understand the importance of running an assessment centre
- To understand the practicalities and potential pitfalls of using an assessment centres
- To appreciate assessment techniques and align them with organizational goals
- To assist the participants to acquire practical skills in the design and planning of assessment and development centers
- To develop skills required in observation and assessment while running an assessment center
- To gain skills in competency analysis
- To use frameworks and models to identify skills and competencies
- To Design and implement effective multiple assessment procedures for selection and development
MODULE 1:
Business case for Assessment Centre
- What is an assessment centre
- A historical perspective on assessment centre
- Its Validity and reliability
- Experiences of Indian Organizations with ACs and emerging global
- Working out the cost benefit analysis
- Strategic use of assessment centre
- Potential uses of these centres
MODULE 2:
Creating role specification and Competency mapping
- What is competency
- What is competency mapping
- Developing competency model
- Defining the job needs: job analysis
- What is job analysis
- Why it is being conducted
- Structure of a typical job analysis
MODULE 3:
Techniques and Tools
- Defining the exercises
- Methods on how to use them
- Types of exercises
- In-tray exercises
- Written exercises
- Case studies
- Presentations
- Group exercises
- Focused discussions
- Role-play
- Analyzing potentials and
- shortcomings of the exercises
- Exercise design practice to
- Evaluating the exercises
MODULE 4:
Building evaluation sheets and assessment matrix
- Create evaluation forms for all exercises.
- Practical experience designing an assessment matrix (to put together the most appropriate methodology for assessment purposes.)
MODULE 5
Preparing and administration of assessment centre
- Training assessors
- Logistics of running an assessment centre
- Create candidate & assessor timetables
- Assessment centre documentation
- To benchmark assessments to achieve fair comparisons of candidates
- The role of feedback
MODULE 6:
Integrating AC with other systems and knowing good practice issues
- Institutionalizing the AC process
- Validation of Assessment Centers
- Align assessment centers with organizational goals
- Good practice issues and resources
Good practice issues to be aware of
Need for your own code/policy on the use of assessment
MODULE 7
Practical centre management
Participants will be part of a ‘live’ conduct of an assessment centre, testing the exercises they have developed and practicing the skill of assessment with their course colleagues.
