AssessmentDay, an industry leader in online aptitude tests and numerical reasoning tests, have been giving their opinion on the NHS’s decision to include psychometric testing as part of the recruitment process for many of their managerial vacancies.
As the world’s fourth-largest employer (behind only the Chinese army, Indian railways and supermarket juggernaut Walmart), the NHS advertises as many as a thousand managerial vacancies on any given day across twenty different areas.
Such statistics will be heartening for graduates, who can earn an annual £22,000 salary through one of the NHS’s management programmes that have traditionally acted as the entry point for many of the country’s leading health executives.
Rob Farace, national resourcing manager for the NHS, has advised prospective applicants to familiarise themselves with online psychometric testing in financial and verbal reasoning as a means of setting themselves apart from the huge numbers that are once again expected to apply when the process re-opens in October.
“Mr. Farace’s advice about applicants taking time to practice psychometric testing is definitely sound,” commented a spokesperson for AssessmentDay. “NHS management schemes have always been notoriously difficult to get onto, and with the country still in the midst of financial difficulty competition will be tougher than ever. It’s vital that graduates entering the job market for the first time give themselves every possible advantage, and becoming familiar with verbal and numerical reasoning tests is a great start.”
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