Overview

Typically taking 25 minutes to complete, with inbuilt role profiling functionality, Dimensions is renowned for its ease of use and its versatility.

Dimensions has been developed solely for use in the workplace; designed to meet the most rigorous scientific standards, yet practical in its use and application.

Faster selection decisions

Talent Q Assessment Systems, of which Dimensions is a part, includes smart recruitment functionality to help users make the hiring process more streamlined. Candidates can be evaluated and ranked against the requirements of the job using the Role Profiling Wizard. Candidates are assigned a fit rating against a predetermined role profile, enabling easy ranking of candidates.includes smart recruitment functionality to help users make the hiring process more streamlined.
This smart recruitment functionality means that you can:

• Quickly identify the best ‘fit’ candidates for the role
• Apply an objective and consistent process for making selection decisions as job specific cut-offs can be applied using the Role Profiling Wizard
• Quickly eliminate those candidates who do not meet the requirements of the role, focusing time and effort on those who do.

Applications for use

Dimensions can be used across all sectors, functions and organisational levels.

Many organisations worldwide are using Dimensions in a variety of talent management scenarios including:

• Recruitment – to increase the accuracy of decisions as well as improving the overall speed and efficiency of the recruitment process.
• Identification of high potential – objectively identifying those individuals with the highest potential in order to improve and manage talent pipelines.
• Personal development – offers powerful insights about an individual’s core strengths and development needs to support targeted individual development plans and activities.
• Team building – when creating teams from scratch or developing existing teams to perform more effectively, Dimensions data provides individual and group based data illustrating the relative strengths and weaknesses of the team as a whole.
• Selection, development and coaching of leaders – whether assessing for leadership potential or developing existing leaders to become more effective, Dimensions provides deep insight, including factors which can lead to possible derailment.

Dimensions is available to those with BPS Level B accreditation or equivalent. For those without this qualification Talent Q provides an innovative blended e-learning Assessing Personality in Organisations course to equip the learner with the skills and knowledge necessary to select, deploy, analyse and feedback the Dimensions component of Talent Q Assessment Systems.

Aligned to the new BPS standards, our accredited training courses are delivered though a combination of e-learning, telephone tutorials and a final classroom practical and assessment session, affording delegates the opportunity to pace their learning to suit their needs. The unique design of our blended training removes the needs to attend lengthy classroom based training. In-house classroom format is also available.

And for those who are already Level B qualified, Talent Q runs regular complimentary half-day Introduction to Dimensions workshops so getting started couldn’t be simpler. These are not obligatory, we do not insist on ‘conversion’ or top up training for those with prior level B accreditation. Register to attend.

Benefits of Dimensions

• Multiple-use of data – extend the value of your assessment data beyond the purpose for which it is originally gathered by using it more than once. Dimensions data can be queried multiple times to support a variety of talent management challenges.
• Tailorable – Dimensions can easily be mapped onto an organisation’s competency framework with unique client specific reports. Reports can also be rebranded to reflect the client’s own corporate style.
• Role Profiling – Dimensions has an inbuilt Role Profiling Wizard, enabling the measurement of candidates against the requirements for a specific job, a lateral role change or assessed for potential to progress to a more senior level.
• Pedigree – developed to exceed the most rigorous psychometric standards, by Roger Holdsworth a recognized authority in objective assessment. Dimensions is highly robust and relevant for use in a contemporary business environment.
• International – Dimensions is available in over 20 languages enabling global consistency of assessment.
• Time – with a typical completion time of 25 minutes, Dimensions is much quicker to complete than most personality questionnaires.
• Cost-effective – Talent Q offers unbeatable value; pricing is clear and simple, with no set up fees.

Reporting

Multiple reports can be generated for use across the stages of the talent lifecycle (i.e. recruitment, re-organisation, individual development, team development, executive coaching and outplacement), all from one assessment. This reduces: administration time, assessment fatigue, costs and the need to maintain multiple assessment methods and suppliers. The following reports are available from Dimensions:

Report Options:

Customised Reporting

Talent Q offers clients a fast and cost-effective option for customising standard product reports to reflect the competency framework of the organisation. With many organisations having their own behavioural frameworks to support talent management, this customised approach yields great returns as users engage with the information more readily. Once the mapping is complete, a report unique to the organisation is developed including a customised profile chart, written narrative with the option of competency-based interview of coaching questions driven by the results. Read more…