Industry-focused testing - 9 cognitive tests
Industry-focused testing provides insight and understanding into the candidate's work pace and margin of error in 9 different cognitive areas. The test highlights the candidate's ability to actively and thoroughly collect, combine, evaluate and process information.
FinxS industry-focused testing consists of a total of 9 tests, which aim to highlight the candidate's ability to think and draw conclusions in different contexts, including work pace and ability to answer correctly.
The reason we call it an industry-focussed test is that we assess the candidate's ability in different cognitive areas. The word cognitive comes from Latin and means thinking or recognising.
Industry-focused testing explains the candidate's ability to solve different types of tasks, which may be more or less related to a job. We therefore recommend choosing a subtest from the test options that most closely relates to the work tasks.
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Example of industry-focused testing
We have three candidates for a job interview for an accountant position and choose to test the three candidates on numerical reasoning, which is about the ability to read and see the relationships between numbers. The industry-focused test sets 42 mathematical maths problems in 9 minutes. Although the three candidates may have similar personality profiles, the result of the test can be very different:
Candidate 1 answers 42 questions in 8 min and answers 50 % correctly
Candidate 2 answers 32 questions in 9 min and answers 75 % correctly
Candidate 3 answers 25 questions in 9 min and answers 98 % correctly
What's interesting is to look at the job requirements compared to experience, personal profile and education. The best candidate is found based on an overall assessment of all of these and not just one area.
Abstract logical thinking
The ability to see wholes and possibilities, as well as understand the interrelationships between different elements. Relates to general empathy that can be developed.
Selected relevant disciplines:
Business development, abstract maths, IT, research and craftsman/construction work
Understanding logical processes
The ability to understand causal relationships and their effects. Likewise, the understanding of how information is translated into everyday life, as well as systematic thinking. This area is more difficult to develop.
Selected relevant disciplines:
Computer programming, research, analysis preparation, project management, sales, purchasing and logistics.
Spatial thinking
The ability to see logical processes visually, as well as the ability to manage gathered information through visual thinking. Spatial thinking is often associated with creative subjects.
Selected relevant disciplines:
Draughtsmen, hairdressers, artists, photographers, designers, graphic designers and architects.
Understanding social context
The ability to understand context and other people. A high score indicates great human empathy, someone quickly and intuitively recognises if a colleague is not happy. It's the understanding of the social context that comes into play.
Selected relevant disciplines:
Managers, teachers, politicians, salespeople, physiotherapists and doctors.
Numerical thinking
The ability to perceive the relationship between numerical information. We are all familiar with sequences of numbers, where you have to write the next one in the sequence. Some people recognise it immediately, while others take longer to make the connection.
Selected relevant disciplines:
General subjects with numeracy, shop assistant, management, accounting, logistics, finance and sales.
Mathematical logical thinking
The ability to understand the logical application of maths, evaluate arguments and detect miscalculations. The ability to use maths, logic and/or statistics in decision making.
Selected relevant disciplines:
Data analysis, research, analyst, buyer, logistics and managers.
Understanding word pairs
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 disciplines:
Journalism, planning, marketing, politics, negotiation and project management.
Memory test
The ability to store many visual objects. The test result reflects how quickly the candidate can identify small differences in relatively similar images. Indicates how great the working memory capacity is. A person with a low working memory will benefit from short and repetitive messages, as opposed to someone with a high working memory.
Selected relevant disciplines:
Detail planning, architectural design, graphic planning and any job that requires a good memory.
Understanding text
The ability to understand written information, conceptualise it and find causal relationships. The result reflects the ability to identify important information and discard irrelevant information in relation to the problem to be solved.
Selected relevant disciplines:
Journalism, data and analysis gathering, identification and problem solving, the ability to identify a message - can be used in any job context.
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