Pieter Bronkhorst to speak at assessment centre conference in China

The 42nd International Congress on Assessment Center Methods and Development Leadership Talent will take place from 13 to 15 November 2019 in Shanghai, China. Our founder and head of the OMT Group (consisting of OMT, Evalex and Odyssey), Dr Pieter Bronkhorst, will present on 14 November at the conference. View the full schedule of events The assessment centre is recognised today across business, educat...

Let’s meet at the 2019 SIOPSA Conference!

The 21st annual SIOPSA Conference will be held at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria between 22 and 24 July 2019. The OMT Group will be well represented and we are all eagerly looking forward to the event. The theme of this year’s conference is “IOP 4.0 – Ahead of our Time”. (You can view the conference agenda here.) The SIOPSA theme aligns well with our focus on innovation, acce...

Using technology to scientifically and rigorously streamline your graduate recruitment process

In 1997, McKinsey coined the term “the war for talent” to depict the competitive and complex challenge of recruiting and retaining the best talent in the market. Over the past few years, it has been clear that this term is at least as relevant as it was at the turn of the century, especially when companies try to attract the best young talent into their graduate recruitment programmes. This is because the...

Welcome Thuli to the Evalex team!

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Nokuthula Pauline Manaba to the Evalex family. Thuli, as she is known, is a registered industrial psychologist who joins us as a senior consultant, working with the Evalex solution set. Thuli was previously head of assessments for Standard Bank, a position she held between 2015 and 2018.  In that role she was responsible for development of the group’s assessment a...

The complex relationship between skill level, education, experience and work readiness

At Odyssey Talent Management we have always held the belief that education and experience impact on the overall work readiness and basic skill level of the working population. We decided to test this thinking by analysing our database, which consists of over 94 000 candidates, eight countries and 54 companies. We looked at all the candidates we have assessed, and compared their results on our Odyssey ...

2019 ACSG Conference – all the details

The 39th annual ACSG (Assessment Centre Study Group) conference will take place at Erinvale in Somerset West, South Africa from 11 to 15 March 2019. The conference week includes various AC-related training workshops on 11-13 March, pre-conference workshops on 13 March and a two-day conference on 14 and 15 March. Evalex attends this important conference every year where we exhibit, sponsor and present on a va...

Odyssey Talent Management helps cut learnership intake admin

If you or your business are involved in any way in learnership intakes, you will understand the sheer volume of work they require. One of our Odyssey Talent Management clients, for example, runs an annual learnership for 60 people. Each year the company receives roughly 4 500 applications from around the country. The company operates in the field of phlebotomy, or blood collection and analysis, which is a hi...

Artificial intelligence – a new frontier in assessment centre technology

With ever-present client concerns regarding the cost of the assessment centre process, the associated issues with inter-rater reliability, central tendency in ratings, declining validities and the modernisation of work, Evalex embarked on applying the emergent technologies of artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive computing and gamification to the design of assessment centre simulations. As we already had a stro...

OMT Group to be well represented at ACSG

The 39th annual ACSG (Assessment Centre Study Group) conference will take place at Erinvale in Somerset West, South Africa from 11 to 15 March 2019. The conference week includes Assessment Centre (AC) Academy training workshops on 11-13 March, pre-conference workshops on 13 March and the actual conference on 14 and 15 March. Evalex attends this important conference every year where we exhibit, sponsor and presen...

Great things in store for Odyssey in 2019

After a successful 2018, when 30 000 candidates completed the Odyssey gamified assessment battery in a range of different contexts (including semi-skilled, entry level workers, learners, graduates, call centre agents and front-line administrative staff), the Odyssey Talent Management team has set its sights on enhancing the Odyssey product base even further. Some key developments include: Integrating...

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