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• How to Tell if a Care Worker Really Cares

  9 May 2012

  Salih Mujcic, consulting psychologist with Onetest, explains how pre-employment testing of care staff can separate out those who truly care from those who are potentially unsuitable. The most objective and accurate method enabling the selection of suitable staff are psychometric assessments that provide deeper analysis than applications, CVs and interviews. Psychometric testing enables employers to assess each applicant’s level of emotional intelligence – one of the best indications of successful carers.

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• Pre-Employment Testing Can Identify Potentially Uncompassionate Carers

  29 February 2012

  Ideally, the NHS and othercare providers should not be in a situation where they are having to weed out uncompassionate individuals. News this morning that ‘being compassionate' should be as important as being clever when it comes to the recruitment of staff to care for theelderly’ should come as a wake up call to those responsible for hiring care staff

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• New Online Tool Brings Pre-Employment Testing to More Companies

  13 February 2012

  Hiring an unsuitable candidate for a job is usually not only a costly and time-wasting exercise, it can also result in lower productivity, damaged customer relationships and a lot of stress – for employer, employee and other members of staff. Research indicates that replacing an employee can cost up to 150 per cent of their annual salary.

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• Beyond the Plateau: Identifying Risky Workers

  20 January 2012

  In this article, Salih Mujcic discusses how industry has responded to the ever-growing challenge of containing risk and how organisations can further improve safety metrics by understanding the attributes that predispose some individuals to act unsafely.

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• NZ Radio Interview - Behavioural Profiling of Teachers

  30 November 2011

  In this interview on NZ Radio National, Cherie Curtis discusses the potential pros and cons of using behavioural profiling when hiring teachers.

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