Product Description

Are you a graduate? Looking for a brilliant job? Then you should know that over 95 percent of the FTSE 100 companies use psychometric and management tests to select their graduate recruits, as do the police, the Civil Service, local authorities, the Armed Forces, the Fire Service, financial institutions, the motor industry, the IT industry - the list is endless. In fact, tests are now an integral part of the recruitment process for most medium-large sized organisations worldwide. So if you're looking for a job, you need this book! It includes: 37 genuine graduate-level practice tests from SHL Group plc, the biggest test publisher in the world; 227 questions covering verbal, numerical, abstract and spatial reasoning, mechanical comprehension, fault diagnosis, accuracy and personality; and, genuine practice Brainstorm, Scenarios and Fastrack management tests. It also includes valuable advice on: online psychometric tests; researching your target employer; and, assessment centre visits (including role-plays, group discussions, in-tray exercises and presentations). This book gives you the three things you need to pass graduate-level psychometric and management tests: information, confidence, and plenty of practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17025 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

From the Author
I wrote Psychometric Tests for Graduates because I wanted to help young people pass the psychometric tests used these days by virtually every company under the sun to recruit staff. It’s not enough to write a good CV or even give a stunning interview performance – if you want to get a great job you also have to pass the tests. There are loads of psychometric test books around, but I wanted to provide a book full of GENUINE tests. Not what I call the ‘magazine variety’, or tests thought up by psychologists who just fancied getting themselves published, but the real thing. In other words, genuine graduate-level tests actually written by SHL Group plc, the test publisher used by over 90% of all medium to large size companies worldwide. My book is the only one on the market that does this. I also wanted to help people once they’d got throught the initial screening process (the online psychometric tests) and were faced with an assessment centre visit. I’ve done this by providing comprehensive information on all aspects of the testing process, loads of advice and a huge number of practice tests, including all the ability-type tests and also personality questionnaires and the most popular management tests and exercises. A word of advice for current readers – you will probably be able to manage some of the SHL tests fairly easily but find others extremely difficult, even thought they are all graduate-level tests. This is quite normal and simply reflects the fact that we all have different strengths and weaknesses. Personally, I’m pretty hot on the verbal reasoning but absolutely useless at the engineering and fault diagnosis sections – but then I don’t suppose I’ll ever want to apply for a job in engineering or systems design. I hope that apart from preparing you for the real-life psychometric tests, my book will also give you a clearer idea of your own strengths and weaknesses in order to help you plan your own career path. This book is a follow up to my first (and very successful) psychometric test book, Passing Psychometric Tests.

About the Author
Andrea Shavick is a well-established career writer with 13 published books, including Passing Psychometric Tests (How To Books). She lives in the UK.

Customer Reviews

Faked out!
For a person like me who is use to encountering tough examination questions and who bothers to go through the process of studying for them, this book was totally disappointing. The practice questions inside are indeed provided by SHL, but are not as difficult as those administered by the big employers of the likes of RBS, HBOS or 3M. There aren’t even any explanations as to why a question is right of wrong but rather an answer list informing you of your accuracy. For those who want to practice for the numerical testing I would recommend digging up past A level and GCSE math books and going through them. For the verbal test, well I'd say now would be a good time to develop a love for the English language and start reading.

Poorly written and of little benefit
In the Introduction to the practice tests the author writes, "As a writer, my ability to communicate in writing is pretty reasonable (well, my mum thinks so anyway)". Saying something like that, you'd hope she'd know how to use a comma. Sadly, her grammar is so appalling that it makes reading this book distracting at best.

The tests themselves are far too simple, representing the easy end of the spectrum. If you've never done any of these tests before, it might be worth going through them to get a taste for the style. Just don't get this book (as I did) expecting to be able to improve your ability.

a bargain price for so many tests and information
I needed some practice with the psychometric tests - this book has it all. Loads of tests, all different types of test, and information on which tests for which type of job. And the SHL tests are the real thing. It's also quite an entertaining read which is a first for a career book - especially the chapter on how to avoid psychometric tests!