You should never drink alcohol at these events even if pressured to.  Information sessions are the time to shut up and listen unless you have timely well thought out questions (which are really important, so don’t miss the opportunity).

Don’t just speak so someone will notice you, because it will probably have the opposite effects on the assessment center exercise.

As we discussed earlier, assessment center exercises usually include tests and like the name says, exercises.  This is all done to gauge the skills and real world work potential of prospective employees.

Assessment center exercises will also include group work and an interview.

All designed to measure the skillset most likely to be successful actually in the job, such as, customer focus, flexibility, challenge and results focus.

Assessment center exercises are used to assess different sorts of job related competencies.  These include written and oral communication, problem solving abilities, reasoning, planning and evaluating.  Ready to find out more? Then read on…

These tests may include giving a new employee a role-playing situation as close to a real life situation as possible and watch how they react and evaluate their skill set.

Assessment center exercises provides information that would otherwise be hard to get.  Most often employers cannot judge these things without seeing and evaluating someone ‘on the job’.

This is just one element of an assessment center exercise.

Another option is where a potential employee may be put in an informal social event, to judge their social skills and how they use this time to ask important questions, in a casual situation.