Over the last four years of the Career Progression Gateway (CPG) assessment process for FRS promotions, the pass rate has hovered somewhere around 55%. Sometimes it will drop below 50%, but in general 60% + is more common, and this is consistent across FRS’s and promotional levels.
Providing materials which allow candidates to prepare for upcoming assessments is known to be good practice. But why?
We all know that it’s important to assess candidates for promotion using fair, reliable and valid methods. But if we have one exercise which fits the bill, do we really need to spend the time and money on a second?
There is a shift across the FRS towards a holistic new approach for succession planning and developing leadership capability (as explored in the NFCC’s People Strategy and Talent Management Toolkit.
The HMICFRS inspections of the last four years have highlighted areas that many fire and rescue services (FRS) have known for decades: that creating a successful promotions process can be a minefield. VCA Ltd has developed The Career Progression Gateway system (CPG) to help FRS streamline their promotions activities and create fairer and more efficient results.
Most HR/ OD departments already have a promotions process in place. But many are also interested in other solutions. So why the potential interest in change?
Is your FRS thinking about how to make improvements to meet HMICFRS report recommendations? Or about making changes now, in order to get ahead of future inspections?
Approaches which are gaining momentum are on-line methods of conducting selection and development assessments. Whether this is something you may need to consider in the future, or are actively weighing up now, here are 13 learning points from our experience at VCA Ltd which we think you may find useful.
With each assessment process there will be candidates who are relieved at the outcome, those who are disappointed but accept the decision, and those who wish to challenge an unsuccessful result.
First launched in 2019, the VCA Ltd Career Progression Gateway online assessments haves now been used by 8 FRS from Firefighter Recruit up to Strategic Manager
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