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Personnel Manager Skills Assessment

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Human Resources

Personnel Manager Skills Assessment

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Questions
9
AudioDocumentTextVideo
Skills
3
Interpersonal SkillsLeadershipStrategy
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Assessment Summary
A Personnel help Human Resources departments hire and train employees, develop and implement business strategies, and perform a variety of other tasks to ensure the business is thriving. Personnel Managers deal with complaints and the record-keeping of personal staff information.
Skills tested in this assessment
The skills tested in this Assessment for a Personnel Manager determine whether the candidate can develop and implement a range of different strategies to benefit their company. We tested to see whether the candidate can execute leadership and if they hold high level interpersonal skills to be able to communicate across the board.
What to test with this assessment
You can expect to learn how the candidate provides advice of company improvements to their superior level colleagues, how the candidate strategises for the company’s staff issues, and how the candidate shows leadership when implementing new change within the business.

About the Personnel Manager Skills Assessment

Want to hire the best Personnel Manager to help your business? Use our expert Personnel Manager skills test to hire the best person and never make another bad hire.

The role of a Personnel Manager is essential in helping Human Resources with hiring, onboarding and retaining staff. They ensure guidelines and service standards are met and help to hire and train new team members.

This Personnel Manager test assesses whether job candidates have all of the necessary skills to perform a variety of HR related tasks to ensure the business is running in a productive manner. This can include having strong leadership skills, being able to create and implement effective strategies and being able to interact well with all internal and external stakeholders.

Candidates who perform well on this Personnel Manager skills assessment will have all the technical skills to have extensive knowledge about HR best practices and implement strategies that will work to achieve HR and business goals. They will also have the necessary soft skills to effectively lead and motivate their team to work hard and meet targets.

A strong leader will be able to motivate and inspire their employees to produce high quality work and work productively to complete tasks and goals. They make decisions that will achieve business objectives and rally their team to work towards the business vision.
Interpersonal skills refer to a person’s ability to interact and communicate with others. This typically refers to an individual’s social skills and how they form relationships with others.
A person who is skilled in strategy is able to come up with an action plan and tasks to work towards achieving an overall business goal. The initiatives that they create will be able to be implemented by their team to help move the business in a more favourable direction.
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Strategy

Question Type: Document

Imagine you have just started a new role in a business that has very few onboarding processes in place which seems to be demotivating new hires and potentially attributing to the high attrition rates. In the document below, outline the onboarding process you would create for the business. Feel free to use our company or another business as an example and choose any role that you feel comfortable with.
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Interpersonal Skills

Question Type: Audio

You will be responsible for employee incentives. Imagine that the company has changed its policy from unlimited time off to normal vacation leave allocation and you need to communicate this to employees. Please record yourself delivering this message to the company staff.
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Leadership

Question Type: Video

Finally, please record a video telling us the strategies that you use to motivate and coach your employees.

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Yes, all skills assessment are customizable and can be created to simulate a job or task. This provides the ability to test a candidate on real-life skills and abilities required for the role. A unique combination of different types of questions can simulate how a candidate will perform in different scenarios.

Combining a detailed Personnel Manager job description with a Personnel Manager skills assessment can help to identify the specific skills and knowledge required for the job, and can streamline the candidate selection process. By writing a clear and concise job description, hiring managers can attract the right Personnel Manager candidates for each role.

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