Candidate Assessment

Take the doubt out of hiring decisions, career development and remuneration. Our in-depth analysis is empirically tested to give you the full facts on potential and current employees, as well as job roles.

Make the call with confidence and clarity

When you’re hiring, how do you know you’re making the right choice? How sure can you be that a new recruit will flourish and fit into your organisation? And are you certain that you’re rewarding high performers fairly, compared with their colleagues?

We help employers answer such questions with confidence. Combining industry gold standard tools with our own bespoke frameworks and expert knowledge, we give you the full picture – whether you’re managing hiring, onboarding, or professional development.

Trusted by employers in numerous sectors across the globe, our services include:

Comprehensive assessments of potential hires
Profiling to pinpoint an individual’s strengths and aptitude
Job evaluations to ensure roles are compensated equitably within your organisation.

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Profiling

Whether you’re weighing up job applicants or seeking to bring out the best in your current talent, our Profiling gives you a clear-eyed view of people’s current capabilities, their potential, and what brings out the best in them.

We’ll give you a blueprint of what to expect from an individual, where they may need support and where they’ll excel. This can be invaluable when comparing shortlisted talent, when mitigating onboarding risk, and when aligning expectations between employer and employee. Our Profiling can also identify which of your colleagues is ideally equipped for specific projects or future leadership roles.

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Job evaluations

Remuneration. Rewards. Benefits. Get these right and you’ll incentivise and retain your best talent. Get them wrong, and you might do the opposite. Which is why we help employers ensure they’re offering persuasive packages that reflect the contribution of different job roles.

Our job evaluations follow a proven, quantitative method to analyse and compare roles across your organisation. These meticulous assessments leave no stone unturned, using a range of criteria to define the contribution and impact that each role makes. We then provide a written report and debrief, to explain our process, conclusions and recommendations.

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How can we help you with candidate assessments?

From executive level to management level right down to junior candidates – we take the guesswork out of hiring decisions. Our assessments compare your shortlisted talent according to the qualities that matter most to your organisation such as cultural fit, current skills, behaviours, and aptitude for learning and growth.

To provide you with expert recommendations and objective reports, we combine gold standard tools with our own framework and industry knowledge drawn from 4,000 Robert Walters colleagues in 31 countries and global business hubs.

Bring out the best in people

Our assessments and analysis reveal cognitive abilities, behaviours and strengths. We zero in on what gives people energy, and we recommend employer strategies to help people be the best version of themselves.

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Bespoke, flexible methodology

Our assessments can be tailored to your organisation and the qualities you’re seeking for specific roles and circumstances. Informed by your objectives, we can harness a range of tools and techniques including Saville Wave, Strengthscope®, Hogan and more.

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Objective analysis with a competitive lens

Our analysis and recommendations are informed by our experience and deep understanding of industries and professions. We’ll combine objective facts about individuals with advice that’s grounded in best practice and commercial reality.

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Which test is the best?

We don’t push any one solution by default. Our expert team is proficient in a range of industry gold standard tools and techniques (including Saville Wave, Strengthscope®, Hogan and more). So, we start by listening to you first. After understanding what is important to you, we then recommend the assessment(s) that best match your requirements.
How accurate are the assessments?

Our processes are meticulous and informed by decades of collective experience in this space. So, while no hiring decision in history ever came with a 100% guarantee, our assessment really increases the prospects of your decisions hitting the mark.

We’re proud of the fact that most employers who work with us once, later choose to work with us again. Clients consistently tell us that the rigor of our analysis and advice has helped them make informed decisions that have led their organisations and their people towards success.
What is the Robert Walters Leading Framework?

Our framework gives you a clear-eyed view of an individual’s current and potential capability to lead. It assesses the skills and qualities that leaders require to thrive in a complex and uncertain world, such as the ability to guide others, as well as learning, empathy, authenticity, drive, insight, and networking.
How rigorous is the Robert Walters Leading Framework?

Our framework is informed by the collective experience of our professional academic and certified coaching network and in-house talent management teams. It has been tested and trusted by top employers and talent across the globe for several years. Contact us to discuss real-world examples where our framework has made a difference.
How much does this cost?

Knowing the market as well as we do, we know that our pricing is competitive and clients consistently remark on the high value we deliver on their spend. In terms of pricing, our assessment, profiling and evaluation services are tailored to your requirements. So, our fees are calculated on the scope and depth of each assignment. Contact us to request a quote.

Candidate Assessment

Make the call with confidence and clarity

Profiling

Job evaluations

How can we help you with candidate assessments?

Meet our Talent Development specialists

Our other services

Executive Coaching

Transition Coaching

Leadership Development

Salary Benchmarking

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