Virtual certification in vocational 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 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.
Occupational testing is used in companies, organisations and HR departments where assessing skills in different areas are important success criteria. It is also used for competence development and in recruitment processes.
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: Virtual certification
The virtual certification takes place over 3 sessions of approximately 2 hours duration - including breaks
The sessions include
✓ Review and understanding of the 9 cognitive tests
✓ Interpretation of results and selection of sub-tests
✓ Feedback and certification
In the sessions, the focus is on learning objectives and creating the best starting points for learning. Therefore, there will be assignments between sessions 1 and 2 and 2 to 3. In addition, there will be assignments between the participants in each session and presentation of the assignments. We will endeavour to have a maximum of up to 5 people per team.
What customers say about becoming certified virtual in Occupational Testing
I found our online sessions to be very pleasant, efficient and personalised.
Scheduling multiple, shorter sessions in close proximity to each other meant that I experienced better learning than is sometimes the case in a full-day course with physical attendance, where I often have moments where I 'tune out' during the day. The placement of modules meant that I 1: still had the previous sessions fresh in my mind. 2: had time to recharge and reflect in between.
I usually tend to lean towards the idea that you get "the extra" out of being physically present, but afterwards I found that the intense yet relaxed space that was created was really effective and a very good alternative to taking a whole day out of the work calendar.
Line Ehlers - Global HR Assistant
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Virtual certification - what's in it for you?
In a virtual certification, you basically learn the same things as in a physical certification - with the advantages and disadvantages of being online. You'll learn what knowledge and insights each sub-test gives you, how to interpret in depth - also from raw data and give feedback to the analysed person.
You will be certified in the latest version of FinxS Vocational test, giving you the best conditions for developing your employees or recruiting the right person for the job. The vocational test can be combined with Extended DISC Basic to nuance the picture of the candidate even more.
The certification is based on the 3 G-factors, which were developed by Charles Edward Spearman in 1904. To become certified in ability 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.
Kurt Lausen talks more about vocational testing in this video:
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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