Case Studies – Our Client Projects

Shropshire FRS had booked a series of assessments for promotions due to begin in March 2020 as part of a trial agreed with Representative Bodies to determine whether this new method of assessment, the VCA Career Progression Gateway (CPG) would be acceptable.

VCA reviewed the language, meaning, potential interpretations, observability, reliability, distinctiveness and clarity of the three core Leadership Behaviours.

North Yorkshire FRS needed support with their Chief and Deputy Chief Fire Officer selection process. Our recommendation was to use our Executive Hire Profile (EHP).

With many FRS altering their selection processes to include more and varied stages, VCA have teamed up with the Fire Service College to provide additional targeted exercises to help [...]

Using the VCA Career Progression Gateway - Middle Manager Online Assessment Process Project summary The VCA ‘Career Progression Gateway’ on-line assessment system allows [...]

Nottinghamshire wanted to evaluate candidate performance against the PQAs, but also factor in the newly developed organisational values into the assessment criteria. Nottinghamshire used a multiple roleplay and in-box [...]

This is just one of the clients we have supplied outsource marking services to year after year. Key advantages Quick turn-around of results. We can return final [...]

Many services follow a standard model for assessments; however some have their own preferences and organisational requirements. We meet these by adapting existing exercises for different uses and developing [...]

Our easy and cost effective outsource service reduces the burden on internal resources and the disruption ADC marking causes to normal operations. We have professionally managed the assessment centre [...]

  The problem In-band PQA interviews were felt to be labour intensive and to produce inconsistent results. Interviewers felt overly constrained by the structure and were increasingly dissatisfied [...]