Download or read book Career Aptitude Selection Tests written by Jim Barrett and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by a psychometric testing specialist and bestselling author, this book has three main aims: careers guidance, preparation, and personal performance improvement. The first edition sold over 50,000 copies worldwide.
Download or read book Aptitude Personality and Motivation Tests written by James Barrett and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By working through these tests, readers can build a personal profile of attributes and skills and use this knowledge to plan a career, prepare for selection and assessment, and gain more insight into how to be more effective.
Download or read book Career Quizzes written by John J. Liptak and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career Quizzes helps readers look inside themselves and make better choices. A career counsellor for 20 years and one of the America's leading developers of career assessments, author John Liptak takes readers on a journey of self-discovery that will help them find work they love and develop their career from start to finish. Each chapter centers on an easy, fun, and revealing assessment that coaches job seekers through the successive steps in the career exploration and job search process. The book includes assessments of job satisfaction, work/life balance, career needs, interests and skills, work values, personality, entrepreneurial readiness, and much more. Most importantly, unlike many other assessment, based books on the market, Career Quizzes not only helps job seekers discover a rewarding career path, but it helps them walk that path as well.
Download or read book The Aptitude Test Workbook written by Jim Barrett and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many organizations and educational institutions use psychometric testing to uncover candidates' abilities and asses their potential. The Aptitude Test Workbook will help candidates prepare for these tests and give them an awareness of their strengths and where they could take you. A companion to Test Your Own Aptitude, it contains 16 tests with over 400 questions - verbal, numerical, perceptual, spatial and practical. With new detailed explanations to aid your learning as well as real life assessments, this new edition is a vital read. Packed with practical advice, help sections and expert tips, it will help the reader improve their key skills and find their ultimate career direction.
Download or read book Career Aptitude and Selection Tests written by Jim Barrett and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the wide range of jobs currently on the market, it is often difficult for job seekers to pinpoint exactly what they want to do. Now in its third edition, this no-nonsense workbook points readers in the right direction. With a range of IQ tests and searching questionnaires, it helps job seekers work out what area of work they should be focusing on by identifying their interests and strengths and scientifically interpreting which jobs they are suited to. Compiled by a psychometric testing specialist and bestselling author, this book has three main aims: careers guidance, preparation and personal performance improvement. It works on the principle that self knowledge enables readers to relate their own personal characteristics to career opportunities. At the same time, it provides an opportunity to prepare for the types of psychometric tests likely to be encountered while job seeking. It also aims to improve performance by demonstrating how to apply aptitudes and personal qualities at work.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Guide to Career Assessment written by Kevin Stoltz and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides career practitioners and educators with detailed information concerning the history, processes, and use of assessment in career counseling and development services. Includes reviews of many types of assessments used in practice.
Download or read book Great Answers to Tough Career Dilemmas written by Mike Bryon and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are entering or re-entering the current job market, it can be a daunting prospect filled with self-doubt, a lack of knowledge and confusion. Great Answers to Tough Career Dilemmas helps you to overcome these setbacks by finding out which jobs you are suited for and providing information on how to get there. Beginning with a startling insight into the current job market with emerging trends and new opportunities, such as working for the super-rich and media technology, it provides a complete aptitude test and analyses to give you a clear picture of which jobs you would excel at. It then provides 900 career solutions along with routes to study, links to resources and potential employers. Along with real life case studies of successful career changers from all over the world, Great Answers to Tough Career Dilemmas provides advice, encouragement and inspiration to help you make the brave decision to follow your dream career.
Download or read book The Complete Personality Assessment written by Jim Barrett and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you discover where your true potential lies? Is it possible to balance work and life more effectively? What has been holding you back? The Complete Personality Assessment uses psychometric and analytical techniques to help you answer all of these questions and more. Consisting of a series of personality tests, motivation tests and competency exercises, it takes a structured approach to help you understand how to control underlying emotions that have been standing in your way. It covers everything you need to realise your full potential, including a career development profile, action plans for change, a life balance test, career motivation test and a competency checklist. With insight and analysis into how can you focus these results for career and personal success, The Complete Personality Assessment reveals the truth about who you really are and what has been standing in your way.
Download or read book Aptitude Personality and Motivation Tests written by Jim Barrett and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's competitive workplace more and more companies are using tests to vet job applicants and assess staff. It is essential that candidates gain the skills needed to perform to the best of their ability under test conditions. If you're about to sit such a test and you want to ensure that you come out of it well, or if you are just looking for some guidance on career choices, you'll find lots of spot-on advice in this 3rd edition of Aptitude Personality and Motivation Tests. It is packed with brand new and improved practice tests that will help build a profile of your personality, skills and abilities, so you are able to prepare for the real tests, find your ideal career, plan a career change or simply explore your potential.
Download or read book How to Pass Advanced Aptitude Tests written by Jim Barrett and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of tests as part of job selection and assessment procedures is now routine. Most candidates can expect to face a battery of tests, including those which identify a person's aptitude for a particular job. How to Pass Advanced Aptitude Tests is aimed at those applying for positions of increased responsibility, where the selection procedures can be even more rigorous. It will familiarise you with the types of test you may face so that through practice you will improve your scores.With abstract and practical tests as well as personality and career analysis and an occupational index and career agenda planner, How to Pass Advanced Aptitude Tests shows you which career path might be the right one for you, and assesses whether you are currently in the right job.
Download or read book Career Aptitude and Selection Tests written by James Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a practical workbook for job seekers, and any individual in the workplace who is eager to improve their career prospects. It comes from a bestselling author who has designed his new work to meet three aims. First, the book offers careers guidance based on the principle that self knowledge offers the best prospect of job satisfaction and success. The approach is structured to enable readers to relate their personal characteristics to career opportunities. Secondly, the text includes tests and questionnaires of the type used by organizations for staff selection or assessment purposes, giving readers the chance to prepare for the similar tests they are likely to encounter while job seeking. Finally, the book will help those already in work to improve their performance through gaining a closer application of their own aptitudes and personal qualities.
Download or read book IQ and Psychometric Tests written by Philip Carter and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IQ and psychometric tests are increasingly used in recruitment and selection procedures by those companies who want to ensure they employ workers of the highest calibre.With hundreds of questions on verbal, numerical and spatial ability, memory, creativity and personality, IQ and Psychometric Tests will help you to weigh up your strengths and weaknesses and improve your score. It also includes two completely new, full length IQ tests.Vital preparation for anyone facing these tests as part of a recruitment procedure, IQ and Psychometric Tests will also appeal to anyone who enjoys stretching their mind and exercising their brain.
Download or read book Ultimate Aptitude Tests written by Jim Barrett and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you need to prepare for an aptitude test for an interview or selection process? Do you want to practise and improve your scores? Ultimate Aptitude Tests, now in its fourth edition and part of the best-selling Ultimate series, is the largest and most comprehensive book of its kind, boasting over 1000 varied practice aptitude questions with accompanying answers and explanations. In such a competitive job market, it's the perfect book to ensure you're entirely prepared to get those high scores and impress potential employers. Businesses use aptitude tests when recruiting; sometimes even to fast-track potential leaders. Providing essential practice, Ultimate Aptitude Tests includes tests like those you are likely to encounter, including abstract visual tests, verbal and numerical reasoning tests, practical skills and understanding tests, spatial and systems potential tests and logic and intuition tests of different types. This new edition also now includes a brand new section on online testing environments as well as free access to a separate full online test to evaluate your abilities. Ultimate Aptitude Tests is brilliant preparation for candidates wishing to outshine their competition and secure their dream job. About the Ultimate series... The Ultimate series contains practical advice on essential job search skills to give you the best chance of getting the job you want. Taking you from your job search to completing an interview, it includes guidance on CV or résumé and cover letter writing, practice questions for passing aptitude, psychometric and other employment tests, and reliable advice for interviewing.
Download or read book Ultimate Aptitude Tests written by Jim Barrett and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To measure your competence as well as your potential for achievement, aptitude tests are increasingly used by organisations to select the best staff for their teams and develop those already employed. Ultimate Aptitude Tests, now in its second edition, is the largest and most comprehensive book of its kind, boasting over 1000 realistic practice questions and detailed answers and explanations. Providing essential practice, it includes psychological tests that mirror those you are likely to encounter, including abstract visual tests, verbal and numerical reasoning aptitudes, practical skills and understanding as well as different types of mechanical and spatial tests.
Download or read book Test Yourself written by James Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's competitive workplace, 80 per cent of companies now use tests of some kind for job applicants and staff assessment. Test Yourself, from the author of the best selling Test Your Own Aptitude, will help the reader prepare for such situations and at the same time gain a greater self-understanding through proven psychological methods. To this end, the book contains worked examples along with the following tests: visual reasoning; numerical reasoning; verbal analysis; sequential reasoning; spatial recognition; 3-D; vocabulary; personality; job satisfaction; career search. By working through these tests, readers can build a personal profile of attributes and skills and use this knowledge to prepare for selection or assessment situations and gain insight into personal/professional effectiveness. Consequently, this book is of great use in career guidance (various career profiles are included), planning and development.
Download or read book IQ and Aptitude Tests written by Philip Carter and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aptitude test is designed to measure the potential for achievement in an individual, whilst an IQ test is a standardized test designed to measure intelligence. Both are now increasingly encountered in recruitment, selection and assessment procedures. IQ and Aptitude Tests contains over 350 practice questions together with answers, explanations and a guide to assessing performance. The questions are organized into four IQ tests together with verbal, spatial and numerical aptitude tests. These include tests of word meanings, grammar and comprehension, advanced verbal aptitude, logical analysis, mental arithmetic, numerical sequences, and number problems. Invaluable to those who are faced with an aptitude or IQ test, this book will also help anyone who needs to improve their verbal, numerical and reasoning skills.
Download or read book How to Pass Selection Tests written by Mike Bryon and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explain how selection tests work and give specimen papers so job applicants can prepare themselves well in advance. They also offer a range of advice and techniques for improving your test scores.
