Mastering Talent Through the Impact of Assessment Centers

Innovative Solutions for Comprehensive Candidate Evaluation.

If you wouldn’t judge a book by its cover, why judge a candidate by their resume?

Assessment centers are comprehensive evaluation processes that combine interviews, group exercises, role-playing, presentations, in-tray exercises, verbal, numerical & inductive reasoning and behavioral assessments. They provide a holistic view of candidates’ skills and capabilities, closely mimicking job environments to predict performance accurately. By using multiple assessors and standardized exercises, these centers ensure fairness and objectivity, minimizing biases.

Assessment centers offer significant value by enhancing decision-making, identifying development areas, and improving the candidate experience. Customization to job specifics and thorough training for assessors are essential for effective implementation.

For over 25 years, Discovery has been designing and facilitating assessment centers for various roles and experience levels. Tell us your goals, and we’ll build an assessment center that ensures

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Understand

Schedule a briefing call and we will immerse ourselves in your world to determine exactly what you are looking to achieve.

Prepare

We work together to benchmark the roles and curate an assessment center tailored to the role & your organization.

Implement

We will train your team of assessors or facilitate the center for you so you can see the behaviors, values & skills of candidates first-hand.

Tailored Precision: Assessment Centers for Every Role and Seniority Level.

Assessment centers can be tailored for any role and level of seniority, from graduates to managers to board members. They are customized to fit various disciplines, ensuring a precise evaluation that meets the specific needs and demands of each position within your organization.

Prepare for the present

Having gaps in your workforce impacts your business, employees and customers. Identify perfect candidates the first time around.

Prepare for the future

Ensure you’re building a workforce with the right people, who have the stretch and agility to deliver for your business tomorrow.

Deliver for your customers

Without the right people in place, your customers will feel the effects. Give them the service they deserve from the right people.

Engage candidates

Face-to-face & virtual assessment centers engage candidates with your business & position you as an employer of choice.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Assessment centers allow you to see candidate capability, stretch and business-fit first-hand. To make sure you can accurately measure this, our experts design both face-to-face and virtual assessment centers.

Using behavioral benchmarking and competency frameworks, we design the day to draw out particular competencies, values or behaviors from candidates to ensure you have the confidence to make job offers.

This includes selecting activities based on the specific role you’re recruiting for – whether it’s business simulations, management role-plays, team activities or individual analysis & presentation tasks – and creating competency-based interview questions that demonstrate suitability for the role.

A key part of a successful assessment center is ensuring the day runs smoothly: tasks start on time, assessors and candidates are in the right place at the right time, and everyone has the materials they need.

Our expert team will be on-hand to facilitate the entire day, reducing the input required from assessors and giving candidates a really great experience.

We also provide assessors with training to ensure your process remains consistent, evidence-based and objective.

If you’re looking to run a face-to-face assessment center, our team are on-hand to support you. Whether you’re looking to run the day on one of your sites or would like to make use of our midlands-based head office & training center, we will help you to run an engaging and robust assessment process.

Alternatively, looking to run your center virtually? We can provide you with access to the state-of-the-art Talenscio platform, a leading provider of virtual assessment center software

A virtual assessment center can be highly beneficial, whether your assessors and candidates are spread across the country, you have a short recruitment timeframe, or other external factors need consideration. Our team can support you.

We have successfully conducted virtual assessment centers for small and large groups, across different countries, and for complex projects, helping businesses identify the right talent for each role.

Why Discovery?

The Discovery team are experts in designing and delivering career-defining development programs for organizations across the UK.

Our approach to long-term success is to understand the stresses and strains on a business that cause attrition, under performance, disengagement, culture erosion – all things that impact on business success, employee well-being and, ultimately, profits. This approach stems from the Discovery founders’ many years of experience in the recruitment, training and performance improvement arena, and their passion & desire to do things better.

Experience has taught us that recruitment and training are better when approached together rather than in isolation: often, an identified need for recruitment or training can be symptomatic of wider needs across a business. Our diagnostic approach involves exploring all possible options with our clients to ensure we find the root cause before we implement a ‘surface led’ solution.

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