3 Responses

1. Purpose?

   Hi Neel, did you have any specific objectives for the exercises and ice breakers?  How much time is allocated to each item?  A little more detail would be helpful with offering suggestions.  Thanks!  🙂

2. Assessment centre activities

   Neel

   First up, I’d definitely avoid any icebreaker exercise. Break the ice by all means but not with anything that might be seen as trivial or irrelevant. I puts candidates under even more stress and reflects badly on the company. A warm welcome, introductions and a clear briefing about what will happen is likely to be more effective.

   As to exercises, these have to be specifically designed to meet your recruitment criteria, and the assessment mechanism (eg observer checklist) would include rating against the key criteria. You may get others who will give you an example of a possible exercise but please don’t think you can just lift it and use it. It sound like you may not have been trained in how to design and run an assessment centre. If you haven’t, find someone who has expertise in this area. Getting it wrong is not just about the frustration on the day, it also about getting the very best candidate and in maintaining your reputation with those who don’t succeed.

   Graham

3. Assessment Centre Exercise

   Hi Neel

   There is an Assessment Centre exercise on the Resources page of my website which you are welcome to use.  It contains some assessment criteria for the observers however, as Graham suggests, you will need to customise these for your needs.

   http://www.odinnovations.org.uk/Freeresourcedownloads.html

   Hope this helps

   Angela