Assessment Centers: What's New?
After more than 25 years of conducting assessment centers, Dennis Joiner will present a summary of the issues that have emerged and the resulting trends in the use of assessment center methodology. Traditional, private sector approaches will be compared to assessment centers in the public sector (state and local governments).
While assessment centers may include a variety of testing techniques, all assessment centers include job simulation exercises. In fact, the core concept in assessment centers is simulation. Assessment centers allow candidates to demonstrate job-related dimensions of performance (worker characteristics) in job simulation exercises that replicate the important situations that occur on the job. The link between the exercises and their ability to simulate the important conditions and contexts that occur on the target job(s) is a crucial component of test design. The use of assessment centers as a method to help with career development and succession planning and the differences between candidate orientation, career development and candidate training programs will also be discussed during this session.
Speaker
Dennis Joiner
Dennis A. Joiner and Associates
Dennis A. Joiner has specialized in supervisory and management assessment for employee selection, promotion and career development since 1977. He has developed assessment centers, oral examinations and various types of written tests for states, cities, counties, special districts and private sector organizations throughout the United States. He has authored articles and chapters on various aspects of the assessment center method, was a member of the taskforce which produced the 1989 assessment center guidelines and has made numerous presentations at local, regional, national and international conferences. Dennis is a founder and a past-president of the Personnel Testing Council of Northern California and a past-president of the International Public Management Association Assessment Council.