By Ramona Naidoo Organisational diversity is expanding. In addition to diversity of gender, race, cultures, and religious backgrounds there is another ingredient being simmered in this already diverse melting pot: the generational factor. Even if I look at my current work environment, despite being a small organisation, we already span over four generational groups. With the accumulation of all the genera...
The Odyssey Talent Management team has had a fantastic 2019. Our MD Kevin Distiller presented a thought leadership paper at ACSG in April, outlining the advantages and pitfalls of gamification, facilitated a round table discussion on the key trends and future of gamification in the assessment landscape, and presented a case study on a large-scale, multinational graduate recruitment initiative that Odyssey ...
In a previous blog – Artificial intelligence – a new frontier in assessment centre technology – we explained how Evalex is utilising AI. What we can now add to the previous exposé is that we have progressed even further down the line, with additional research and machine learning to sophisticate our AI algorithms and mathematical formulas. Evalex has to date developed four AI-driven applications as...
The 42nd International Congress on Assessment Center Methods and Development Leadership Talent took place from 13 - 15 November 2019 in Shanghai, China. Our founder and head of the OMT Group (consisting of OMT, Evalex and Odyssey), Dr Pieter Bronkhorst, presented at the conference proudly flying the Evalex flag! Here is his feedback: The 42nd International Congress on Assessment Centres and Leadership Develop...
Leveraging our heritage through partnerships, research, data, and technology to realise people potential. With over 40 years of industry experience, Evalex delivers extensive assessment, talent management, leadership development and solutions to identify potential. We are Pioneers in the use of Artificial Intelligence, data, research, and technology and we have used this expertise along with a strong client p...
The 42nd International Congress on Assessment Center Methods and Development Leadership Talent will take place from 13 to 15 November 2019 in Shanghai, China. Our founder and head of the OMT Group (consisting of OMT, Evalex and Odyssey), Dr Pieter Bronkhorst, will present on 14 November at the conference. View the full schedule of events The assessment centre is recognised today across business, educat...
The 21st annual SIOPSA Conference will be held at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria between 22 and 24 July 2019. The OMT Group will be well represented and we are all eagerly looking forward to the event. The theme of this year’s conference is “IOP 4.0 – Ahead of our Time”. (You can view the conference agenda here.) The SIOPSA theme aligns well with our focus on innovation, acce...
In 1997, McKinsey coined the term “the war for talent” to depict the competitive and complex challenge of recruiting and retaining the best talent in the market. Over the past few years, it has been clear that this term is at least as relevant as it was at the turn of the century, especially when companies try to attract the best young talent into their graduate recruitment programmes. This is because the...
It gives us great pleasure to welcome Nokuthula Pauline Manaba to the Evalex family. Thuli, as she is known, is a registered industrial psychologist who joins us as a senior consultant, working with the Evalex solution set. Thuli was previously head of assessments for Standard Bank, a position she held between 2015 and 2018. In that role she was responsible for development of the group’s assessment a...
At Odyssey Talent Management we have always held the belief that education and experience impact on the overall work readiness and basic skill level of the working population. We decided to test this thinking by analysing our database, which consists of over 94 000 candidates, eight countries and 54 companies. We looked at all the candidates we have assessed, and compared their results on our Odyssey ...
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