Certification in vocational testing - Cognitive Testing
Vocational testing is a cognitive testing tool for assessing a person's ability to think and make reasoning summaries. This can be used with the employee in a development process or the candidate in a recruitment process.
By becoming certified in finxS Vocational Testing, you will gain greater insight and understanding of different forms of intelligence and their interrelationships in just one day. You will gain an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of high/low scores and the importance of comparison with relevant norm groups. finxS Occupational Testing is used in companies, organisations and HR departments where assessment of ability in different areas are important success criteria. It is also used for competence development and in recruitment processes.
If you are interested in the certification and would like to try one or two of the vocational tests - contact us at 70 26 32 25 or info@hrsolutions.dk.
Application possibilities
The vocational test is a psychological test with up to 9 individual tests. These include the following areas:
- Abstract logical thinking
- Understanding of logical processes
- Spatial thinking
- Understanding social context
- Numerical context
- Mathematically logical
- Word pair understanding
- Memory test
- Text comprehension test
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The certification process
Step 1: E-learning course
The e-learning course consists of 7 lessons + 1 test with practice exercises in between. The final test must be passed before the certification days. The e-learning course can be completed at your own pace, so you can log in and out as many times as you like.
Step 2: Vocational test
Before the certification days, you will be required to complete a vocational test yourself and three "rabbits". The results will be used as a basis for training and feedback on the certification day itself.
Step 3: Certification day
The certification day will focus on exercises, interpretation and how to actively use vocational testing in competence development and recruitment.
Benefits of the certification - what do you get out of it?
On the certification day, you will learn how to interpret and give feedback to the analysed person, and you will receive advice on how to give the best possible feedback. The certification in Occupational Testing gives you the prerequisites for developing your employees or recruiting the right person for the job. Occupational testing can be combined with Extended DISC Basic to get an even more nuanced picture of the candidate.
The certification is based on the 3 G-factors developed by Charles Edward Spearman in 1904. To become certified in vocational testing, you must complete the 9 tests yourself and go through an e-learning programme. The theory and results are used as a basis for training in feedback on the tests so that the results can then be compared with different target groups.
Upcoming certification courses
The 9 sub-tests
Abstract logical thinking
The ability to see wholes and possibilities, and understand the interrelationships between different elements. Relates to general learning ability that can be developed.
Selected relevant work areas:
Business development, abstract maths, IT, research and craftsman/building constructor.
Understanding of logical processes
The ability to understand cause and effect. Also, understanding how information is translated into everyday life and systematic thinking. This area is more difficult to develop.
Selected relevant work areas:
Computer programming, research, analysis, project management, sales, purchasing and logistics.
Spatial thinking
The ability to see logical processes visually, as well as the ability to manage the information gathered through visual thinking. Spatial thinking is often associated with creative subjects.
Selected relevant work areas:
Draughtsmen, hairdressers, artists, photographers, designers, graphic designers and architects.
Understanding the social context
The ability to understand contexts and other people. A high score indicates a high level of human empathy; some people quickly and intuitively sense when a colleague is not thriving. It's the understanding of the social context that comes into play.
Selected relevant work areas:
Managers, educators, politicians, salespeople, physiotherapists and doctors.
Numerical thinking
The ability to perceive the relationship between numerical information. We all know number lines where you have to write the next number in the line. Some people see it straight away, while others need more time to make the connection.
Selected relevant work areas:
General subjects with numerical understanding, retail sales, management, accounting, logistics, finance and sales.
Mathematical logical thinking
The ability to understand the logical application of mathematics, evaluate arguments and detect faulty inferences. The ability to apply maths, logic and/or statistics in the decision-making process.
Selected relevant work areas:
Data analysis, research, analyst, buyer, logistics and managers.
Word pair understanding
The ability to understand the connection between different concepts and classify information. It is the ability to combine data that has a connection. Typically the ability to come up with solutions to known problems.
Selected relevant work areas:
Journalism, planning, marketing, politics, negotiation and project management.
Memory test
The ability to store many visual objects. The test result reflects how quickly a person can identify small differences in relatively similar images. Indicates how large the working memory capacity is. A person with low working memory will benefit from short and repetitive messages, versus a person with high working memory.
Selected relevant work areas:
Detail planning, architectural design, graphic planning, all jobs that require a good memory.
Understanding text
The ability to understand written information, conceptualise it and find causal relationships. The result reflects the ability to identify essential information and filter out irrelevant information in relation to the problem to be solved.
Selected relevant work areas:
Journalism, data collection and analysis, identifying and solving problems, the ability to identify a message - can be used in all job contexts.
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