At Evalex we believe in giving back wherever we can. One of our charitable projects is the support of Knysna Sport Academy, which gives children from disadvantaged communities the opportunity to participate in a number of sports, including cricket, hockey, soccer, tag rugby, golf, cycling, tennis and athletics. Evalex’s involvement in the academy is through sponsorship of the cycling development programme. Two ...
South Africa is currently being hit with a wave of optimism – Jacob Zuma’s presidency is finally over, and Cyril Ramaphosa’s term in office is about to begin! While these political trends can only bode well for the long term future of the youth and the Class of 2017, who have just begun to enter the workforce, the reality is that short term opportunities for employment are still rather low. Entering the wo...
Odyssey is an assessment process for identifying talent and learning potential at the lower levels of work within organisations. It aims to measure readiness for entry into the “World of Work” usually into entry-level jobs in companies. It is a tablet and smartphone driven assessment solution that makes use of gamification and other key technological developments. Thus, rather than using traditional psychomet...
2017 was a tumultuous and landmark year for the assessment field in South Africa. Judgement was delivered on 2 May 2017 by Judge Mali in the application brought by the Association of Test Publishers (ATP) in regard to the amendment to Section 8 of the Employment Equity Act of 1998 (EEA). Regardless of outcome of this important court case, Evalex has always ensured that we comply with relevant regulations and leg...
The Assessment Centre Study Group is a special interest group of practitioners in South Africa that presents a conference on assessment centres each year. The study group operates independently, both professionally and financially, and consists of a committee of volunteers who are elected every second year. This year’s conference will be held at the Hilton in Sandton from 12 to 16 March 2018. The ACSG website ...
Since McKinsey coined the term “war for talent”, many articles have been written on talent management. Almost any organisation worth its salt has spent time and money investing in talent management systems. In 2014 the Korn Ferry Institute noted that the competitive landscape is becoming increasingly global in scope. The institute found that even small and mid-size companies have no choice but to compete on ...
Evalex is delighted to welcome two new organisational psychologists to our team – David Bischof and Kevin Distiller. David (left) joins us as director of business development for Organisational Management Technologies (OMT), working with the Evalex solution set. David was previously a senior manager at Deloitte Consulting, where he led the leadership assessment business within human capital. David is an ass...
Evalex director and research psychologist David Bischof will be speaking at the upcoming Society for Industrial & Organisational Psychology of SA (SIOPSA) seminar on 5 December 2017 in Johannesburg. His topic, A Perspective on Psychometric Assessment Practices in South Africa, will a...
Top management tasks of large-scale organisations are quite different from those at the mid and lower levels. This is because the nature of work changes as an individual moves up through the hierarchy of an organisation. As one moves up in the organisation, the environment becomes more unfamiliar and complex and requires a different set of competencies and capabilities to function effectively. Stratified systems...
Performance inhibitors are among the most important metrics that we measure as part of our Evalex20 battery of psychometric assessments. And while their overall tendency is to impede performance (as the name suggests), there are actually instances where what we define as a performance inhibitor could, paradoxically, enhance an employee’s performance. We recently conducted some research for a Japanese company. ...
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