Praise and Reviews

`A wealth of practice material to help you to prepare for such tests and guidance to help you manage your career.`

European Foundation for Management Development

`Provides plenty of practice material to help candidates prepare, together with guidance to help manage their career.`

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

The use of tests as part of job selection and assessment procedures is now commonplace. Most candidates can expect to face a battery of tests, some that measure ability and also those aimed at identifying a person's aptitude for a particular job. And the more skilled the job, the more advanced or difficult the tests are likely to be.

How to Pass Advanced Aptitude Tests provides both a wealth of practice material to help you to prepare for such tests and guidance to help you manage your career. Aimed primarily at a managerial, professional or graduate level, it also has much to offer the beginner. Topics covered include:

visual logic;

numerical insight;

verbal concepts;

form recognition;

personality assessment;

organizational skills;

career analysis.

Expert advice and an extensive career index to help you to evaluate which career suits you best make this book essential reading for anyone keen to get their career on the right track.

Praise and Reviews

"A great source of preparation."

Evening Standard

"Could help you land the job you want."

The Sun

In today's competitive workplace more and more companies are using tests to vet job applicants and assess staff.

If you're about to sit such a test and you want to ensure that you come out of it well, this book is for you. Or if you are just looking for some guidance on career choices, you'll also find lots of spot-on advice.

Previously entitled Test Yourself!, this updated edition is packed with brand new and improved practice tests that will help build a profile of your personality, skills and abilities, so you are able to:

prepare for the real tests

find your ideal career

plan a career change

develop your potential

This book is the ideal companion to the author's other successful title, Career, Aptitude & Selection Tests.

The Aptitude Test Workbook

by Jim Barrett

Published 3 November 2003
Most organizations and many educational institutions use some form of psychological testing as part of their employment or selection procedures. The tests aim to discover the ability of candidates and also assess their aptitude or future potential.

The Aptitude Test Workbook is designed to help you get into the right frame of mind for taking such tests, see where you can improve your key skills and gain awareness of your strengths and where they can take you. A unique new book, it is the companion title to the best-selling Test Your Own Aptitude, but with a more spacious layout, help sections and expert tips. There are 16 tests with over 400 questions categorized as follows:

verbal tests;

numerical tests;

perceptual tests;

spatial tests;

practical tests.

The results will help you to assess your aptitude, and decide which type of career might suit you best. Also a great source of practice material, this valuable new book will help you to prepare for the real thing.

How can you discover where your true potential lies? Is it possible to balance work and life more effectively? What has been holding you back? The Complete Personality Assessment uses psychometric and analytical techniques to help you answer all of these questions and more. Consisting of a series of personality tests, motivation tests and competency exercises, it takes a structured approach to help you understand how to control underlying emotions that have been standing in your way. It covers everything you need to realise your full potential, including a career development profile, action plans for change, a life balance test, career motivation test and a competency checklist. With insight and analysis into how can you focus these results for career and personal success, The Complete Personality Assessment reveals the truth about who you really are and what has been standing in your way.

Test Your Numerical Aptitude

by Jim Barrett

Published 1 January 2007
Test Your Numerical Aptitude will allow those who are uncertain of their numerical ability to build their confidence, slowly and surely, until they are ready to tackle any kind of numerical test.

For those who already have some numerical skills, this book will provide a chance to brush up on your knowledge, and to identify further levels of capability.

Test Your Numerical Aptitude also provides motivation and personality tests along with career advice and a career index. The book will help you assess your numerical ability, to determine whether you are suited to a career involving numeracy skills and if so, which one.