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Large employers, particularly the Civil Service, use selection tests when recruiting staff. The authors of this book explain how the tests work and provide specimen papers so that job applicants can prepare themselves well in advance. Approximately half the book consists of practice exercises.
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If you are currently applying for jobs, the likelihood of being asked to sit a selection test is greater than ever before.
How to Pass Selection Tests is a best-selling book that has helped thousands of people faced with just such a test. You can actually improve your score through preparation, and this fully revised and expanded new edition provides all the expert advice and practice material needed. There are hundreds of brand new numerical, verbal and clerical practice test questions, plus information on:
Why employers use tests;
The most common types of test;
How to improve your chances of success;
What to do if you fail.
Complete with answers and explanations, How to Pass Selection Tests will help you to familiarize yourself with the different types of question, boost your confidence and cope with nervousness.
It is essential reading for anyone determined to succeed in a job search.
Mike Bryon runs a training consultancy in London, and is a recognized expert in psychometrics and training solutions. He is the compiling editor of The Times Testing CD-ROMS and the author of How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests, How to Pass Advanced Numeracy Tests, The Advanced Numeracy Test Workbook, How to Pass the Civil Service Qualifying Tests and How to Pass Secondary School Selection Tests, all published by Kogan Page.
Sanjay Modha has an MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology. A researcher and senior lecturer, he is the co-author of How to Pass Technical Selection Tests (with Mike Bryon), and author of How to Pass Computer Selection Tests, also published by Kogan Page.
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