Codility is the #1 rated recruitment platform for developers, helping world-class companies like Microsoft, Intel, and American Express to assess candidate programmers via skills-based coding tests. Many coding tests are administered in English, but not all candidates are native English speakers. Hence a “pain point” identified by Codility: a too ... Read more >
Psychometric assessments have become a crucial component of the recruitment and development process at scale. To hire the right candidate, one needs to ensure that the tests are fair, valid, reliable and defensible in all the languages that are available to the test takers. Different types of assessments present different ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village A Case Study on the Halin Prémont Enneagram Institute Leadership Assessment Questionnaire Translation from French and English to multiple languages The Halin Prémont Enneagram Indicator, developed by Belgian researchers Philippe Halin and Jacques Prémont, is a scientifically validated questionnaire designed ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO Please don’t spend too much time looking up the Chaos Management Skills Assessment. It is a fictitious project, which we set up for the exclusive purpose of this informative series on good practice in skills assessments translation. We have collated events and features from several ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Psychometric tests in technology-rich environments, adaptive psychological tests, social and emotional skills, and profiling tests have gone multinational, thereby increasing the need for translation and adaptation into multiple languages. The International Test Commission guidelines for translating and adapting tests are ... Read more >
Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Much has been said and written in past months about how the current coronavirus crisis will affect the future of work. Carola Milanesi is the founder of The Heart of Tech, a consultancy focused on education and diversity, and is often quoted ... Read more >
Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The debate on whether skills training could emerge as a viable and scalable future alternative to college is long standing and heated. There appears to be, however, a mounting consensus that colleges and universities have not come close to keeping up ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Students preparing for a job interview have to face a "stark new reality", reads a recent article by Rachel Metz for CNN Business: they could be vetted in part by artificial intelligence. There is a surge in the use of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village About 32 million unique online vacancy postings from seven EU countries (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, UK) have been collected by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and processed through big data and ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village In a recent interview for "EdSurge" Sean Gallagher, Ed.D. (1) discusses the rapidly changing field of graduate education. The offer is booming and increasingly diversified, he says. Degrees now come in all shapes and sizes. There has been a lot ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village A joint report by the OECD and the UK-based charity "Education and Employers" was presented in Davos at the World Economic Forum 2019 on January the 23rd. The report is inspired by a survey of 20,000 primary school children ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Just out: the World Economic Forum's "The future of jobs" 2018 edition. The report foresees major disruptions to labour markets, but says demand for new roles will offset the decreasing demand for others, with "net job gains" estimated ... Read more >