13 Nov 08 - SHL urges companies not to neglect latent talent as economic storm worsens
SHL is urging HR professionals to nurture their existing talent in order to weather the worsening economic gloom as issues around engagement and retention top the list of HR priorities for 2009.
14 Oct 08 - SHL warns against reckless redundancy strategy
With redundancies now moving outside of the City and affecting companies across all sectors, SHL fears that some organisations could be getting it very wrong when tackling redundancies and redeployment.
14 Oct 08 - SHL brings HR expertise to Middle East
SHL, the global leader in talent assessment solutions in the workplace, announces an exciting line-up of talks, presentations and workshops at leading industry events across the Middle East over the coming months.
19 Sep 08 - SHL celebrates its 10th anniversary in Switzerland by reinforcing commitment to the market
To celebrate its tenth anniversary in Switzerland, SHL, the global leader in talent assessment solutions in the workplace, is leading a session on Distance Leading at the HR Swiss Congress 2008, the theme of which is “Putting the H into HR.”
15 Aug 08 - SHL Continues to Drive Talent Management Success with Innovative Results-Driven Products
SHL celebrates 25 years of business in Hong Kong
25 Jul 08 - Recruitment industry must deliver a higher quality service and best fit candidates to meet client demands, says SHL
SHL has seen a noticeable increase in demand for higher quality, objective recruiting services and has launched the SHL Recruitment Partner Programme in response to this demand
21 Jul 08 - Line managers not fully equipped to interview effectively, SHL research finds
Research by SHL, the world-leaders in providing talent assessment solutions, has found that line managers are not sufficiently involved in the interview process. This is despite HR professionals agreeing that this is important to ensure candidates have a good fit with the job requirements and culture of the company.
09 Jul 08 - SHL APPOINTS NEW HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR
SHL, a world-leading provider of psychometric assessment and development solutions, has appointed Paul Wesley as its new Human Resources Director. Wesley will be supporting SHL’s ambitious growth plans, resourcing and managing talent globally as the company takes advantage of emerging markets in China and India, further develops plans for the Americas and consolidates its dominance in Europe.
18 Jun 08 - SHL’s Verify Goes European - Tests launched in five new languages
SHL, the leader in psychometric assessments, has launched its Verify range of online ability tests in five European languages.
21 May 08 - The Perfect Blend– SHL launches refreshed training for today's HR Professionals
SHL has revamped its training offer on two counts to provide increasingly time poor HR professionals with an accessible and interactive blended learning programme which will qualify them to administer and interpret psychometric assessments.
21 May 08 - SHL APPOINTS CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER
SHL, a world-leading provider of psychometric assessment and development solutions, has appointed David Leigh to its board of directors. As Chief Commercial Officer, Leigh will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s ambitious expansion plans.
30 Apr 08 - SHL chosen to aid selection of European Union Officials
EPSO awards new three year psychometric testing contract to SHL
31 Mar 08 - ‘HR Health Check’ initiative launched to support hiring and retention in public sector
Free recruitment process reviews provided by SHL
10 Mar 08 - Nissan drives recruitment with SHL
Leading car maker sees psychometrics as key to finding best staff
28 Feb 08 - SHL awards top students with MSc project prize
SHL, the leading psychometric testing company, has recognised the best occupational psychology students with its MSc Research Project Prize, awarded at this year’s Division of Occupational Psychology Conference. The first prize was shared by Anne Herrmann from the University of Lueneburg, Germany, and Louise Burgess from the University of Manchester. Third prize was awarded to Rene Immanuel Kusch from the University of Mannheim, Germany.
03 Jan 08 - SHL celebrates 15 years in Russia
SHL has celebrated 15 years of its presence in Russia.
01 Dec 07 - 30 years of psychometrics from SHL… but what does the future hold?
SHL, the leading provider of psychometric assessment, is celebrating 30 years of success in the industry.
26 Nov 07 - Selection of England football manager lies in psychometric assessment
SHL urges world of sport to turn to recruitment tactics used by business.
13 Nov 07 - Assessment growth in Ireland
Occupational, psychometric assessment is growing at an unprecedented rate in Ireland.
20 Aug 07 - How can you prepare yourself for those tricky interview situations? - Start by practicing free sample psychometric assessments on SHLDirect.com
SHL, a leading provider of psychometric assessment solutions, is giving job hungry candidates the opportunity to try their hand at sample psychometric assessments, through its website SHLDirect.com.
28 May 07 - What learning personality do you have? Asks SHL
SHL’s investigations have established that individual personalities greatly affect the ways that we learn most effectively – and neither a pure e-Learning approach nor 100 per cent classroom learning suits most.
05 Feb 07 - SHL’s Occupational Personality Questionnaire is recognised by the BPS as representing ‘marked progress in analysing the world of work’
SHL, a leading global provider of psychometric tests and expert consultancy services has received an outstanding evaluation for its latest Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) from the UK’s leading independent professional psychological association, the British Psychological Society (BPS).
05 Feb 07 - SHL’s Occupational Personality Questionnaire scores top marks in BPS test evaluation
SHL, a leading global provider of psychometric tests and expert consultancy services has received an outstanding review for its latest Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) from the British Psychological Society (BPS). The UK’s leading professional psychological association has pronounced SHL’s personality test ‘at the top of the first rank of personality tests’.
11 Dec 06 - SHL assessment tools increase companies’ productivity
Independent research company pH Group Ltd has released evidence demonstrating that organisations that use carefully developed assessment methods have increased levels of productivity.
04 Dec 06 - Poor service could put High Street Christmas profits at risk
1 in 3 shoppers think that service levels drop during the festive season.
31 Oct 06 - SHL Reports on Largest Ever Graduate Survey
Recruiters advised not to take qualifications, universities attended and extra activities at face value.
23 Oct 06 - Companies waste billions letting their best staff go
As HR professionals recognise the importance of identifying what motivates their employees, leading global provider of online employee assessment SHL launches an innovative tool to help understand what drives people to perform better in the workplace.
23 Oct 06 - “Motivation is Crucial in Retaining the Best Staff”, says SHL
As HR professionals begin to recognise the importance of identifying what motivates their employees, leading global provider of online assessment SHL has launched a new tool to help understand what drives people to perform better at work.
28 Sep 06 - OPQ is the first psychometric tool to receive a Det Norske Veritas certification
SHL, world-leading provider of psychometric assessment, has become the first assessment provider to receive a Det Norske Veritas (DNV) certification of test quality for its Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ 32i). A DNV certification is an important guarantee of quality which confirms that OPQ has been independently judged to meet high standards of product excellence.
02 Aug 06 - SHL Launches New Guidelines for Online Recruitment Testing Industry
As the barriers to Internet access decrease and the demand for assessments online increases, SHL is committed to minimising the risk and maximising the value of online assessment tools with a new set of ‘Better Practice’ guidelines. These have been designed to accompany the launch of The SHL Verify™ Range of Ability Tests.
31 May 06 - Online Testing Without the Compromises - SHL Launches Revolutionary New Online Recruitment Tool
With online recruitment growing*, SHL, the world-leading provider of psychometric assessment and development solutions, is to launch a tool that it believes will solve the problem of potential dishonesty in remote tests.
17 May 06 - HR Directors wasting time and money by not using online testing, says SHL
HR directors are missing a trick in speeding up and cutting costs of recruitment. So says world leader in workplace assessment, SHL Group.
01 Mar 06 - Guildsrealm steps up the game with best match executive recruitment
Executive search firm selected to join exclusive SHL partner network
01 Mar 06 - Kalido turns to SHL to help select high quality people
Kalido, a data warehouse software company spun out of Shell in 2003, has put three values at the heart of its business: to be an ethical software company; to be customer, not product led; and to employ the highest quality people. To achieve this last value the company uses a number of objective assessments from SHL to help select the very best.
08 Dec 05 - SHL launches partner network in UK
SHL, a world leader in objective assessment, is launching its successful partner programme, the SHL Partner Network (SPN), in the UK. With over 230 partners registered worldwide, SPN provides independent psychologists, HR consultants and specialists with privileged access to SHL products and information to enhance the service they can provide their clients.
28 Nov 05 - Personality Measure Comes of Age
The Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) – the original workplace personality assessment is 21 years old this year. Over the past three decades the OPQ has become one of the most widely used occupational psychometric tools throughout the UK and worldwide.
19 Oct 05 - HR Managers want to do more online – SHL Expert Online provides a single, comprehensive assessment solution
Research among HR managers has indicated that most would like to increase the number of tasks they can do online*. With cost, resource and time-savings as the key drivers, internet-based assessment is seen as a significant benefit to stretched HR departments. Responding to this feedback from customers, SHL has created a single online platform for a range of objective assessments – Expert Online.
14 Mar 05 - SHL Launches Online Review and Development Tool
SHL, the world leader in psychometric assessment, has launched pd360, a next generation 360° performance and development solution. Unlike other 360° products, pd360 offers support throughout the review process, from identifying key competencies for each role, to tailored development advice in response to the review.
28 Jan 05 - The Big Cover Up – UK Workers Worst for Hiding Mistakes at Work
UK employees lead the way in covering up mistakes made at work, according to global research from SHL Group plc, the world-leading provider of psychometric assessment and development solutions.
05 Nov 04 - SHL Raises Bar with Launch of New Management and Graduate Test
SHL, the world leader in psychometric assessment, today announces the launch of its newest ability test – Management and Graduate Item Bank 6 (MGIB6).
04 Nov 04 - SHL Appoints Specialist to Head Up New Retail Team
Teresa Fearis has been appointed as head of retail assessments at SHL, the world-leading provider of psychometric assessment and development solutions.
25 Oct 04 - UK HR Departments attracted to SHL's Expert Online
SHL has sold over 100 Expert Online systems to new UK customers in 2004. The product, which delivers online objective assessment of personality and preferred working styles, plus a variety of comprehensive reports, has proven hugely successful. Customers are attracted to the product by its simple set-up, ease-of-use, flexibility and cost effectiveness.
27 Aug 04 - Blind and partially sighted graduates benefit from practice assessment centres courtesy of Blind in Business and SHL
Twenty blind or partially sighted students spent two days at the SHL Management Centre last week meeting with potential employers, practicing psychometric tests, and discussing advice on applying for jobs and the support available from Government and employers.
18 Aug 04 - Verbal and Numerical reasoning skills in decline despite continued A-level sucsess
Data released today by SHL, the world leader in objective assessment, shows that, in spite of more children gaining top grades at A-Level and going onto university, the average scores on tests designed to assess the ability of candidates to deal with verbal and numerical information has declined. The data has been gathered from over 20,000 applicants for managerial and graduate jobs over the past eight years.
09 Aug 04 - Three Eminent Psychologists to Advise SHL
SHL, the world leader in objective assessment, today announced that Professor Ronald Hambleton, Professor Peter Warr and Professor Robert Roe have agreed to act as independent advisors to the group. They will meet on a regular basis and provide feedback to the SHL Board on research and the latest developments in academia.
21 Jun 04 - UK Wastes £12 Billion Managing Poor Performance
The UK is losing £12 billion a year due to poor people management, according to a new independent report from SHL, the world leader in objective assessment.
27 May 04 - Psychometrics: Untrained HR Professionals Put Employee Development at Risk
According to new research by SHL, the world-leader in psychometric assessment, a significant number of UK organisations practising psychometric assessment could be doing so without proper training.
06 May 04 - SEAT’s Champion Motor Racing Team Uses its Head to get into Pole Position
SEAT is using personality and aptitude tests, developed by SHL, the world leader in objective assessment, to accelerate its driver selection and development programme. This process is aimed at ensuring that SEAT selects the best racing talent for the track.
19 Jan 04 - Hiring the Wrong People is Draining Business
Companies worldwide are significantly damaging their bottom line through poor recruitment policies, according to new research from SHL.
06 Oct 03 - SHL puts image to the test with re-vamped brand
SHL Group plc, the global leader in psychometric assessment, unveils a new brand identity.
05 Sep 03 - AC Milan scores with psychological profiling from SHL
European Champion AC Milan has proved that football success is down to brains as well as brawn. Borrowing business techniques straight from the boardroom, the club is using psychological profiling to help shape its dream team.
04 Sep 03 - New Online Assessment Tool Helps Employers Spot Graduate Talent Globally
Ability Screening Online, launched today in 15 languages, is the only commercially proven on-line test of business reasoning. The product enables organizations to operate a more efficient global recruitment process at a reduced cost per hire.
01 Jun 03 - Peopleclick Forms Alliance with SHL
Partnership strengthens Peopleclick’s permanent recruiting solution with powerful screening and assessment technology, enabling recruiters to spot talent at an early stage
01 Feb 01 - Acquisition of Employee Performance Consultancy
SHL Group plc (“SHL”), a world leader in the objective assessment and development of people, announces the acquisition of Advanced Personnel Technology Ltd (“APT”), a leading provider of consulting, software and staff development programs designed to improve employee performance.