The Assessment Centers are excellent tool for hiring, especially for the managers who are not able to feel their emotions and they want to make a decision based on „numbers“. Specialized assessment center companies can provide the manager with nice graphs and the managers love it.
The assessment center is based on putting the job candidates into different „real business“ situations and monitoring their behavior, communication, negotiation and interaction with the rest of the group.
The assessment center is a scientific method to observe the people and to assess their skills, competencies and behavior. As the people do not know what to expect at the assessment center, they have to play their own personality.
In reality, the people at the assessment center can be divided into two groups:
- Those who know the assessment center
- The real people who have to use their brain to solve the difficult situation
The real people have no chance not to play their own personalities as they have no clue, what is observed and what kind of the behavior the evaluators value. The evaluators are usually not experienced enough to recognize the people really trying to do their best and the actors.
Many times I see assessment centers, where the best candidates are not the best actors at the assessment centers. The assessment centers were really very modern, but nowadays, too many people understand and know the principles of the assessment center and the results do not provide a truth picture of the job candidates.
