Hiring with confidence starts with the ability to effectively measure the knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors, and other characteristics necessary to perform Senior Executive Service (SES) job tasks. OPM has established the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) to define the competencies required to effectively lead people and organizations. To ensure your organization hires the right leaders, HR Solutions offers a full spectrum of assessment instruments, including an executive assessment, from a single government source, enabling compliance with all federal policies and best practices.
How HR Solutions Can Help
The Executive Assessment is a battery of online assessments created by HR Solutions specifically for assessing SES competencies and executive experience and potential. Designed to provide insight into the ECQs, this assessment battery is immediately available to use as part of your selection process.
The Executive Assessment battery aligns the federal government with private-sector executive selection methods, while also focusing on the unique nature and needs of being a leader in the federal workforce. Agencies can hire and promote executive talent with confidence — backed by valid assessment.
Leadership You Need to Move Your Mission Forward: Evaluate Applicants in Context
HR Solutions’ Executive Assessment battery is designed by industrial-organizational psychologists, informed by federal agency leaders, and delivered on OPM’s online assessment platform for easy access. The battery includes three assessments.
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Situational Judgment Test (SJT): Applicants are faced with typical on-the-job scenarios and evaluate viable options for handling them. SJTs effectively tap both cognitive and non-cognitive competencies using a job construct-driven approach to create situations and response options.
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Leadership Behavioral Index: This assessment determines an applicant’s work style through a mix of personality and biographical data measures.
- Work Simulation: This series of situations, structured as an integrated narrative, engages applicants as realistic on-the-job scenarios unfold. The assessment presents information through emails; videos; and documents, including organizational charts and data; and measures competencies critical to the job based on the applicant’s responses.
Online Executive Assessment: A Holistic, Digital Approach to Streamline Hiring
Only HR Solutions offers a full spectrum of assessment instruments, including the Executive Assessment battery, from a single government source that follows federal policies and best practices
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Whole Person Assessments: The Executive Assessment battery can pair with other assessments that measure technical competencies as well as structured interviews for a complete view of each applicant and their capability to succeed in a Federal executive position.
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Assessment Ease: The Executive Assessment battery is delivered online in an applicant-friendly format. It can be easily added to your application process.
- Compatibility: The Executive Assessment battery is fully compatible with USA Staffing®, the Federal Government’s talent acquisition system, further enhancing the efficiency of the selection process.
For Additional Information
Contact the USA Hire Program Office or your USA Staffing Account Manager for more information.
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