Strategic Dimensions is able to offer a wide range of assessment services. Typically the business need falls within one of the following camps:

Selection – to select the right people for the organisation who can meet the demands of key roles. This assessment applies to both internal and external candidates.
Career development - to assess the strengths, weaknesses and potential of candidates and ensure that structures are in place to address the development needs.

What do we assess?

Our assessments focus on the following key areas:

• Technical expertise – does the individual have the right expertise to fulfil the technical requirements of the role?
• Strategic thinking – does the individual have the ability to deal with the bigger picture issues and cope with greater levels of complexity and ambiguity?
• Relationships – does the individual have the required level of relationship building and influencing skills?
• Response to pressure & stress – how does the individual respond when they are operating under higher levels of pressure & stress?
• Ability to transition – how well is the individual likely to make a transition into a new role?

How do we assess these factors?

We use a wide range of assessment techniques to assess an individual on the factors above. These typically include

• In-depth interviewing
• Traditional ability tests
• Cognitive testing
• Simulation exercises
• Personality questionnaires
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Who does our assessments?

Our assessment team is led by our own in-house qualified occupational psychologists; Paul Wesley and Debbie Gamble.

We also call on our Associate; Professor Adrian Furnham, one of today’s leading thinkers on assessment, to provide in-depth psychological profiling.