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skills. More traditionally, you might be familiar with the old copy
typing exercises to test typing speed and accuracy and, increas-
ingly, presentations are being used in the recruitment process to
test, among other things, communication skills.
brilliant
tip
A well-designed in-tray exercise is one of the best and most reliable
methods of testing existing competence. Spend time creating
your own or, better still, why not get your existing team members
involved in creating one?
Psychometric tests
These are frequently (and wrongly) referred to as personality
tests. Psychometric tests do not just test personality, they also
test ...