The Achiever Pre Employment Assessment : Consult Aarambh

The Achiever encompasses aptitudes and behaviors required in a job.  The Achiever report can be based on your organization’s job description, people who are successful within that job for you now or successful people in the same job in other companies in our industrial database.

It takes approximately 50 – 60 minutes to complete the assessment.

The Achiever is an in-depth pre employment assessment that measures the following six mental aptitudes (cognitive abilities) and ten personality dimensions exhibited within an individual as they relate to the job the individual is being assessed for:

Mental Aptitudes

Mental Acuity - learning, judgment, problem-solving and reasoning ability
Business Terms - knowledge of basic business terms
Memory Recall - knowledge of current events
Vocabulary - general English vocabulary
Numerical Perception - ability to handle numerically related tasks quickly and accurately
Mechanical Interest - interest in the mechanical area

Personality Dimensions

Energy - energy and drive level; how tension and stress are handled
Flexibility - integrity, reliability, dependability and work ethics
Organization - ability to plan and utilize time wisely
Communication - individual's desire to meet and interact with people
Emotional Development - level of self-confidence and ability to handle pressure
Assertiveness - whether a person is a leader or a follower
Competitiveness - whether a person is team-spirited or individualistically competitive
Mental Toughness - ability to persevere and deal with obstacles in life without giving up
Questioning/Probing - desire to ask questions and probe
Motivation - whether person is security-motivated or recognition, incentive and commission oriented.

The Achiever assessment tool, noted as one of the most in depth and comprehensive pre employment assessment reports in the India marketplace, contains the following segments:
The narrative segment, which explains each mental aptitude and personality dimension that is being assessed in the report and how the individual has scored in each compared to the job.


A pictorial analysis comparing the individual's actual scores to the desirable benchmarks for the job. These job benchmarks may be derived for an individual company based on their own successful people in the job, based on the job description, or the person can be assessed against Candidate Resources' data base of people who are successful in those jobs.
Leadership Analysis identifying the person's strongest areas and areas the person could benefit from developing in, based on the following five elements of leadership skills:

• Planning
• Organizing
• Directing
• Staffing
• Controlling

Sales Analysis is a sales assessment which identifies the person's strongest sales skills and areas the person could benefit from developing in, based on the following five elements of selling:

• Developing rapport
• Identifying a need or desire
• Presenting the product/service to fill prospect's needs
• Dealing with objections
• Closing the sale

Personal Development Plan compiled as a result of the overall assessment of the individual.  The Personal Development Plan compares the mental aptitudes and behavioral traits required to successfully perform the job and an identifies those actions that the individual can take on a daily basis (books they can read, etc.) to become more proficient in the job.
Behavioral interview questions that can be asked in a secondary interview process, which are created as a result of the comparison of the individual to the job requirements.  In addition, responses are given that the Recruitment consultant look for in the candidate's responses, in relationship to the person's job fit.
The Achiever's most prominent use is in employment testing for the screening and evaluation of applicants, or objective evaluation of existing employees who are being considered for promotion, transfer or annual performance review in job categories which include:

• Inside and outside sales
• Customer service skills
• Supervisory skills
• Management skills
• Administrative
• Technical
• Engineering

Organizations who make an investment in their employees are concerned about matching the person with the job generally use some type of aptitude testing, personality testing or profile testing.  Employees who are appropriately matched to their jobs have higher levels of job satisfaction and overall job performance than their "unmatched" co-workers.  Higher levels of job satisfaction result in lower employee turnover and improved retention.