Psychometric Test of Selection and its Implementation in Nestle

Employee Resourcing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Explain psychometric test of selection and how these are implemented and improved in the
organisation successfully? .....................................................................................................3
Types of Psychometric tests. .................................................................................................4
Advantage and Disadvantage of Psychometric test ...............................................................5
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Resourcing is the process through which identification as well as allocation of people are
done to perform all the work which is necessary to perform in business to achieve the objectives
of the company (Aryatama, H. (2020))Resourcing consist of two strategic imperatives as one is
related to minimizing the cost of employees and maximising employee value to the organisation,
Another one is to obtaining correct behaviour mix of attitude and commitment in the workforce.
The organisation that was selected in this project is Nestle. It has its headquarter in vevey,
Switzerland. It deals in various products such as breakfast cereals, coffee, baby food, pet food,
confectionery items, bottled filtered water, ice creams etc. The brand serve their product all over
the world. The chairman of the company is Paul Bulcke. Whereas Chief executive officer of the
company is Ulf Mark Schneider. The topics that are cover and discuss in this project are related
to psychometric test, their process, advantage and disadvantage, applicable theories and why this
method is considered as most beneficial and better as compare to other method. And various
other topics are also discuss under this project.
MAIN BODY
Explain psychometric test of selection and how these are implemented and improved in the
organisation successfully?
Psychometric Test : Aptitude test , provides insights into someone's cognitive ability and
indicates the potential of a candidate to excel in a career. In include various different forms like
numerical, logical, mechanical, verbal etc. The test are streamline the process of recruitment and
reveal the best applicants efficiently. Most of these test are conducted online. The scores of
psychometric test are not stand alone but tends to be considered in combination with cover
letter, Curriculum Vitae of candidate as well as to other rounds of assessment like sector specific
task, group interviews, role play scenarios etc. As their high scores are leads to increase the
chances of securing final stage interview. As large number of applications are received by
employer for one job role. This method is considered as the best method to reduce the applicant
pool size. It fastly perform the recruitment process, giving a logical candidate shortlist of
manageable length and reducing HR cost. The test that are conducted in it are considered as
reliable indicator of candidate suitability and potential. Numerical reasoning test and verbal test

tends to be most common to employer. Practising of these test tends to ensure that high scores
are achieved which reflect potential as well as ability (Dewhurst, S., & FitzPatrick, L. (2019))
Types of Psychometric tests. Numerical Reasoning: This tends to analyse the ability of person, how accurately and
quickly a candidate can deal with number. As the questions are to ensure high level
ability but your capability to solve the mathematical concepts helps to analyse data and it
easily draw conclusions. It tends to improve the knowledge of data interpretation, ratios,
number sequences, financial analysis, currency conversions, number sequences etc.
(Turner, P. (2019)) Mechanical Reasoning: These features challenge understanding as well as application of
concepts that are related to mechanical. Usually for particular sector , there is need to
background , experience and knowledge.(Turner, P. (2020)) Logical reasoning:In includes non verbal content as it helps to assess ability to interpret
different types of shapes, patterns, numbers. These respective test encompass elements
from numerical and diagrammatic reasoning assessment (Khawan, S. (2020)) Verbal reasoning:It assess comprehension as well as interpretation of written passages .
A short text excerpt are given for the purpose of review. And relating to content ,
candidates are than asked question. Diagrammatic reasoning:These are related to sequences of pattern and shapes. There is
need to identify the rule which govern the pattern with the intention to select next
element which is correct from a provided selection and to a new scenario apply the rule
correctly. Abstract reasoning:It tends to measure the ability so that to deduce relationship b/w
patterns and different shapes. There is no need of any verbal and numerical analysis but
their is requirement to test lateral and logical thinking along with speed and accuracy
(MURERWA, T. G. (2020)) Spacial reasoning:this test is conducted to access the ability of person to identify
patterns and to visualise movements. In this quested are relates to which image is rotation
of given shape and which of them are connected to 3 D image(Teerikangas, S., Turunen,
M., & Välikangas, L. (2020))