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 ...
The 39th annual ACSG (Assessment Centre Study Group) conference will take place at Erinvale in Somerset West, South Africa from 11 to 15 March 2019. The conference week includes various AC-related training workshops on 11-13 March, pre-conference workshops on 13 March and a two-day conference on 14 and 15 March.
Evalex attends this important conference
every year where we exhibit, sponsor and present on a va...
If you or your business are involved in any way in learnership intakes, you will understand the sheer volume of work they require. One of our Odyssey Talent Management clients, for example, runs an annual learnership for 60 people. Each year the company receives roughly 4 500 applications from around the country.
The company operates in the field of phlebotomy, or blood collection and analysis, which is a hi...
With ever-present client concerns regarding the cost of the assessment centre process, the associated issues with inter-rater reliability, central tendency in ratings, declining validities and the modernisation of work, Evalex embarked on applying the emergent technologies of artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive computing and gamification to the design of assessment centre simulations. As we already had a stro...
The 39th annual ACSG (Assessment Centre Study Group) conference will take place at Erinvale in Somerset West, South Africa from 11 to 15 March 2019. The conference week includes Assessment Centre (AC) Academy training workshops on 11-13 March, pre-conference workshops on 13 March and the actual conference on 14 and 15 March. Evalex attends this important conference every year where we exhibit, sponsor and presen...
After a successful 2018, when 30 000
candidates completed the Odyssey gamified assessment battery in a range of
different contexts (including semi-skilled, entry level workers, learners,
graduates, call centre agents and front-line administrative staff), the Odyssey
Talent Management team has set its sights on enhancing the Odyssey product base
even further.
Some key developments include:
Integrating...
With our access to cutting-edge technology and experience in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment centre development, Evalex has created customised leadership scenarios that can be tailor-made more specifically to various roles and organisational requirements.
This approach provides our clients with the opportunity to select and use assessments at a more focused level, relevant to the inhere...
Odyssey Talent Management recently undertook a study on a sample of pickers at a major national supermarket chain. The sample was divided into a group of pickers who had undergone the Odyssey Talent Management process and a group who hadn’t.
In this study, the performance of a sample of 54 pickers was tracked over a three-month period. Of these 54 pickers, 35 had been selected through the candidate performance...
