Apollo in Staff and Executive Development
A well-validated and yet economically priced online personality test supported by registered psychologists in Asia.
The Apollo Profile Online Personality Test can help executives, middle management, supervisors, and sales personnel to identify personal strengths and possible weaknesses relating to career success.
Because The Apollo Profile compares the individual against the benchmarks of highly successful operatives in their field, guidance can be given as to new and more effective ways and behaviours to enhance performance.
Training and development needs are identified, and candidates can be trained, counselled and mentored to improve their effectiveness.
As a diagnostic tool, The Apollo Profile can detect a "bottle neck" in a person's style or make-up that is a barrier to better performance. The Apollo Profile can help reveal to a candidate how others may see him or her, and favourably influence their commitment to subsequent training and development because they agree with the outcomes.
Also, because The Apollo Profile is seen as more objective than some one else's personal opinion, feedback of a sensitive or personal nature is usually received with a more open mind.
Customer Service, and Support level staff frequently have little corporate investment given to their self knowledge and development, which is a pity.
Because the Apollo Profile has a totally different and highly relevant set of criteria for these roles, many candidates find the Apollo Profile affirming. When their reports are shared with their superiors, it enables a much greater understanding and appreciation of the differences between the roles of management and non-management.
The Apollo Profile is an ideal base for mentoring, especially if both mentor and mentee can compare their profiles.
When used for guidance as part of the process of outplacement the Apollo Profile Online Personality Test can reveal possible strengths and weaknesses which can be addressed in career planning for the future.
Exception Report
Apollo's exception report is based on a comparison of the test candidate with others in their group (i.e., sales, executives, general workforce). Apollo compares the candidate's profile with those rated as excellent in these areas and highlights exceptions in an easy to understand way.
Job Profiler Report
Test your candidates and then compare all of them against excellence in the role under consideration. SImple to set up and understand. Simply click on any candidate's name to go through to a summary report on that candidate.
Narrative Report
The Narrative Report uses colour coding to show at a glance how the test candidate's personality compares to others rated as excellent in their group. In addition, explanatory text written by a psychometrician and management consultant is provided to ensure understanding.
Candidate Feedback Report
Show your interest in people development by providing this report to successful or unsuccessful hires - there's no additional cost as with Apollo, you simply pay once per candidate. This report explains the candidate's personality profile and offers advice for possible development.
Development Report
This is a longer version of the Candidate Feedback Report above. Additional background data and analysis is provided. Again, this can be given to both successful and unsuccessful applicants for jobs or used more systematically as part of a full training needs and organisational development program.
Summary Report
The summary personality report provides a comparison of your candidate with those rated as excellent in the comparison group you have chosen. A brief interpretation of each of the scales is also provided for your candidate.
Areas of Concern Report
This is similar to the Exception Report, but adds detail. Rather than using only the simple colour coding found in the Exception Report, the Areas of Concern report shows where the candidate scored compared to excellence in the group and breaks the report into essential, desirable characteristics for the area under consideration.
Apollo Benchmarking
The benchmarking report shows each of the 34 Apollo Personality Test scale scores for your candidate against the comparison group. As a consultancy service, we can assist organisations with their own full scale benchmarking studies which generate comparison groups for future recruitment/selection and development projects.
Apollo Personality reports can be read directly from the website, downloaded in pdf for easy viewing or downloaded as a word (doc) file to enable fast editing as required.