Resourceful Pro announces a partnership with Effectus Consulting

Behavioural competencies that count

Resourceful Pro is excited to announce that we have partnered with one of Australia’s fastest growing Human Resources Consultancies, Effectus Consulting. Together, we have developed an innovative assessment methodology that comprehensively measures candidate potential.

Contemporary businesses strive to be seen as innovative, adaptable and dynamic. In this environment, a combination of relevant experience, business smarts and cognitive skills are critical for modern leaders.

Many executive search firms focus solely on assessing achievement. Resourceful Pro measures talent potential to find the best leaders rather than simply hiring people who have performed similar roles in the past.

We can accurately predict success in role through the measurement of highly sought-after traits such as emotional intelligence, self-awareness, flexibility, resilience, entrepreneurship, and the ability to lead through change.

Our process includes psychometric testing utilising Effectus Consulting’s pre-employment solutions including an assessment of problem-solving ability. This methodology accurately assesses the desired qualities of contemporary leaders and is a better predictor of performance than traditional psychometric testing suites.

Resourceful Pro can customise the suite of tests used for each role. Candidates complete questionnaires online and clients are provided with succinct and easy to read reports providing critical information about each candidate as well as how they rank against each other.

Personality as an indicator of behaviour

Personality can be a good predictor of how people behave at work. Resourceful Pro utilises the Effectus Consulting’s pre employment solutions to identify an individual’s preferred way to think, feel and behave, at work. 

Individual preferences are summarised across five domains; social drive (including confidence and discipline); connections (preferred interaction style and levels of trust); thinking (dealing with change, complexity of thoughts, ideas and solutions); work style; and emotions. Candidate responses are compared to the responses of the norm group – 60,000 people from over 55 countries – who have completed the test previously to offer an indication of preferred behavioural preferences for each candidate.

Business problem solving capabilities

Research consistently finds that strong problem-solving capabilities are associated with how quickly people learn, how much job knowledge they acquire, the speed and accuracy of problem solving and their ability to innovate (when combined with certain personality traits). 

Our comprehensive assessment evaluates a candidate’s ability to solve business problems by presenting them with a range of challenges. Responses are compared with those of professionals in relevant industries and each candidate is given a performance percentile.

Identifying leadership potential

Contemporary organisations need contemporary leaders that are adaptable, assertive, innovative, empathetic and able to build strong relationships with others.

Effectus Consulting’s Signature Leadership Assessment draws on rigorous scientific research into what drives success in leadership. There are multiple styles of effective leadership and their level of effectiveness depends on the situation in which they are displayed. Our methodology comprehensively assesses a person’s potential for three leadership styles: people potential, intellectual potential and executive potential.

Unlocking the DNA of safe employees

Today’s corporate leaders are increasingly being held personally accountable for workplace safety. Data science and predictive analytics are useful tools for confidently choosing the safest employees and building your safety culture before workers even walk through the door.

Effectus Consulting’s Predikt-r Safety MAP Assessment tool quickly unlocks the DNA of what makes a safe employee. It predicts an employee’s safety behaviours, contribution to safety culture and likelihood of workplace injuries. The results can be used with other information to make reliable, confident hiring decisions – and build specific development plans for your team.

Resourceful Pro and Effectus Consulting are both deeply embedded in the power, energy, utilities and resources industries, with an in-depth understanding of the requirements of contemporary organisations in this sector.

By partnering with Effectus Consulting as our preferred pre employment test provider, Resourceful Pro can now undertake an even more rigorous assessment of potential candidates on behalf of our clients. We look forward to sharing this development with you during 2019.

Please get in touch with either Matthew Woodall at Resourceful Pro or Jason Rodgers at Effectus Consulting to find out more.