The widely popular measure of conducting the Employee Skills audit is go thru the most scientific process of an Assessment Centre within the organisation. Start with the Job analysis first and then get the professional to design the most appropriate Asseement Centre that makes use of various tools like Psychometric Analysis, Role Plays, Case Studies, Presentations, Behaviour Games & activities and so on.
 
The Assessment Centre comes with experts who are well trained in Behavioural observation, analysis and interpretation. This is probably the only method known at present that will help realise the the HRD truth in terms of "Right person for the Right Job at the Right Time and at the Right Place".
 
Preparatory Work Before conducting the Audit

• Define the objective.• Get approval from the concerned officials• Conduct job analysis • Define the competencies required for the target position.• Identify the potential position holder and send them invitations.• Identify the observers.• Train the observers.• Design the exercises • Decide the rating methodology.• Make arrangements for resources and infrastructure• Schedule the Program.• Inform the concerned people of the schedule. Steps During the Process• Explain participants the purpose and the procedure it would follow and its outcome.• Give instructions of the process to participants before every exercise• Distribute the competency-exercise matrix sheets among observers.• Conduct all exercises. • Conduct a discussion of all observers on every participant’s ratings, at the end of the session.• Make a report of the strengths and improvement areas of every participant.• Give and get feedback from participants as well as observers about the process.
 
After the Process

• Compile reports of all participants and submit the list of selected participants to the concerned authorities.• Make improvements in the process design based on recommendations.• Evaluate the validity of results after a definite period.
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