How to handle Assessment Challenges
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.
What does two years of the Career Progression Gateway tell us about FRS performance?
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
How to build coaching into your feedback sessions
Here are our best tips for helping you get the most out of the opportunity to share information with, and gain insights from, your promotions candidates.
How to get best value from telephone feedback sessions?
With more and more of our work now being done remotely, how can we make sure candidates are getting as much from a phone feedback as they do from a face to face interaction?Feedback fairly quickly after an assessment is incredibly useful [...]
Career Progression – Gateway Reliability and Validity Analysis
What is Reliability? Reliability is a statistical measurement that determines whether a tool used (the Leadership Quality constructs within the assessment exercises) measures an outcome (scores) consistently, to a degree that demonstrates that the same results would continue to be replicated every subsequent use. Internal reliability is used to assess the internal consistency of a [...]
Developmental Feedback – How to get it right
The Feedback Report - An output of every process involving candidates completing assessment exercises is a detailed feedback report for each candidate. This report is used as the basis for a feedback session facilitated by the HR/ L&D team, Line Managers or assessors. Content of the report The feedback report covers the assessment of [...]