Recruitment and Performance

JULIA QUEST
ASSESSMENT SPECIALIST FOR RECRUITMENT AND PERFORMANCE

Profile:

Julia Quest is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with more than 20 years of consulting experience, to the private, public and the charity sectors. Prior to this she worked in the NHS. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist; BSc (Hons), MSc (Occ Psych), Dip COT, a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society and Member of the Division of Occupational Psychology and is qualified at Level A & B in Psychometric Testing, and in Brief Solution Focused Therapy.

Specialist Areas:

• Structured discussion and testing to explore individual personality, and entrepreneurial style and cognitive capacity profiling to help identify the best choice of career, either at the beginning of the working life or when it becomes important to change career path at any stage in their 40+ year passage.
• Integrity and team assessment
• Designing and running assessment centres for recruitment or development
• Individual assessments of capability aiming to improve performance and to help avoid costly employment tribunal
• Individual assessments of cognitive and emotional capability for people trying to return to work following their time off due to physical or mental ill health / stress
• Individual assessments for medico-legal purposes

Business Cornerstones' Assessment Specialist is experienced in working at all levels from new recruits and graduates to new managers, executives and directors. She focuses on the objective assessment of people’s abilities and typical behaviour in order to help them find their optimum role at work and perform to their best ability. She uses psychometric tests and structured interviews, together with a brief solution focused coaching approach, to help you improve the accuracy of your selection decisions, helping you to have confidence in predicting good performers for your organisation. Tests are selected to reflect the culture and the current and future needs, strategies and goals of your organisation, ensuring that recruits will fit in, and therefore stay longer.

Tests can also be used to understand any gaps in capability that might be holding an individual, and therefore their team, back in their performance, allowing targeted remedial intervention. Such information and appropriate, timely intervention can help employers avoid costly employment tribunals. Her unique balance between understanding disability and good commercial awareness informs her efforts to assist in maintaining a disabled employee at work and in carrying out the duties of the DDA or if this is not possible with adjustment or accommodation, to help the employee find more appropriate employment.

All this helps reduce staffing costs caused by poor performance and high turnover.