ASSESSMENT CENTERS

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Assessment centers are the selection centers, which do the task of designing a number of exercises, need to be performed by the candidates to assess the full range of skills and personal attributes required for a job.. The activities which are undertaken at the assessment centers are conducted by the human resources department of every organization. It is the duty of the professionals to recruit and select the appropriate candidates to the company.

In this context one of the multinational organization Wipro conduct a huge number of campus recruitment and selection process for the graduates all over the colleges. The assessment unit of this organization has the responsibility of conducting certain activities through which students are judged that whether they possess the required potential or not (Selection and Assessment Centers, 2011). 

         
   Wipro, while organizing such a procedure, mainly lays emphasis on a written test which evaluates the basic skills.  Then a group discussion round is held where everyone is given a chance to express its views. Then, finally, an interview is taken where a final decision is taken. Wipro follows the process very strictly so that it can find suitable candidates (Wipro “Engineering Monitoring TIS” job for any Graduate Freshers, n.d).

           

 Assessment centers are considered to be one of the most reliable and accurate methods of 
recruitment. They offer a thorough and an in depth analysis of those who participate. They are backed with the disadvantage that they are too costly and time consuming (Assessment centre- Meaning, Advantages and Disadvantages, 2011).

            The Job description and specification of a graduate at Wipro needs candidates that could work in shifts or sometimes under pressure. For this, activity held at assessment centre will be that of problem solving exercises where a task is given to them and they will be ask to require completing it within less time. Also to perform monitor backups jobs and perform data restore activities. This is tested by the written tests which include the analysis of basic skills of a computer graduate (Compton and et. al., 2009).

           
 Among the job specification requirements come the basic requirement that the candidate should be a computer graduate with minimum specified percentage (Roberts, 1997).

References

Online references

Assessment centre- Meaning, Advantages and Disadvantages. 2011. [online]. Available through < http://kalyan-city.blogspot.com/2011/07/assessment-centre-meaning-advantages.html >. [Accessed on 7th February 2013].

Selection and Assessment Centers. 2011. [online]. Available through < http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/selection.htm >. [Accessed on 7th February 2013].

Wipro “Engineering Monitoring TIS” job for any Graduate Freshers. n.d. [online]. Available through < http://www.placementforus.in/2012/06/wipro-engineer-monitoring-tis-job-for.html >. [Accessed on 7th February 2013].

Books and Journals

Compton, R. and et. al. 2009. Effective Recruitment and Selection Practices. 5^th ed. CCH Australia Limited.

Roberts, G. 1997. Recruitment and Selection: A Competency Approach. CIPD Publishing.