The McQuaig System™ is a three-step process:
Step 1. Define the job: Achieve consensus on the total requirements of the job. Understand the key behavioural requirements that will determine success.
Step 2. Assess the Candidate: Identify the candidate’s behavioural style, compare it to the job requirements and use this information to focus your interview time.
Step 3. Retain and Motivate Your People: Understand what motivates your employees and provide an environment that enables them to excel.
How do I use The McQuaig System™?
You can:
• Connect to McQuaig On-Line® via the internet and complete McQuaig Job Surveys® and McQuaig Word Surveys® ‘on-line’.
• Assign assessments to candidates for them to complete on-line in remote locations.
• Use our bureau service and simply fax the completed McQuaig Job Survey® and McQuaig Word Survey® forms to us for processing – or have the individual complete it on-line.
What’s in The McQuaig System™
The McQuaig Job Survey®
This is a short questionnaire, to be completed by the hiring executive, focusing on various aspects of the job to be filled. This will develop realistic behavioural criteria and competencies for a specific role. The simple and comprehensive report is used to assess candidates who complete The McQuaig Word Survey® and provides job-based behavioural questions.
Reports available are:
Graph
Profiling Interpretation
Leadership profile
Selling Style Report
Job-specific, behaviourally-
Job-specific behaviourally-
Interviewing questions
Job Fit report (Interview Guide)
Behavioural summary
The McQuaig Word Survey®
The Word Survey® is a tried and trusted method of appraising a job candidate’s temperament style. This is probably the most important factor for predicting success and determining suitability for any job role.
The Word Survey®, a highly efficient, well validated, self-appraisal technique, gives the hiring executive information on how the candidate will perform on the job - highlighting potential strengths and weaknesses. Additional reports included are perfect for managing and coaching the individual once hired.
The Word Survey provides detailed reports of sales potential, leadership style, capacity to work under pressure, independently and to work with detail, as well as the candidate’s ability to co-operate with others.
The reports included are:
Graph
Profile Interpretation
Leadership Profile
Selling Style Report
Interviewing Questions
Job Fit Report
Management Overview
Motivating Factors
Strategies/Coaching and Developing
Learning Style
Team Approach
Contents & report description
The McQuaig Occupational Test®
Seldom is it possible to appraise a candidate in action on the job, or to judge the candidate’s ability to handle problems or to learn new tasks. Scientifically prepared psychological tests are a widely accepted method of overcoming this final hurdle in objective selection.
The Occupational Test indicates a candidate’s capacity to grasp new ideas, to solve mental problems and to learn quickly. It is a measure of mental agility, the ability to solve problems quickly whilst under pressure.
The McQuaig Self-Development Survey®
This stand-alone report focuses on personal development. Like The Word Survey Interpretation Report, it lists an individual’s strengths and developmental areas, but with some very significant differences:
• More detail on likely job-related behaviours associated with each trait.
• Action Items to help your employees maximise their strengths and manage their developmental areas.
• Worksheets to help create an Action Plan.
• The language is geared specifically to the employee, not their manager.
• It is ‘action-oriented’
• It gives employees the opportunity to manage their own development.
Why should I use the Self-Development Survey®
As companies face the looming talent wars, a key strategic weapon will be their ability to retail and develop their current staff. But, with shrinking HR budgets and increasing demands on every manager’s time, coaching and mentorship programmes may struggle to get the attention and resources they deserve. Companies need a tool that allows employees to self-manage their development and careers.
The Self-Development Survey® Report’s ‘stand-alone’
The report has comprehensive instructions and guidance for the self-paced programme and includes sections on:
How to use the programme
Graphical summary of profile
Detailed report of behaviours
Action items
Optimise strengths
Manage developmental areas
Summary of report
Action plans
Follow up and mentoring
Notes and advice
For more information please call The Holst Group on 0800 043 3950 or visit:
http://holstgroup.co.uk/
