Potential assessment is a useful tool in, for example, coaching, career counselling or restructuring a company's operations. The potential assessment differs from the suitability assessment by concentrating on surveying specific personal characteristics. The assessment can also be used to assess a person’s motivators, skills and potential for improvement in general.

Potential assessment offers you the opportunity to increase your self-awareness and better understand your own strengths, skills and aspirations in relation to work and your career. It offers your employer information about how your talents can be utilized in the future.

How to prepare for your assessment

You will receive an email invitation confirming the time and place of your assessment. The message also includes advance assignments you are expected to complete before the assessment. These assignments include time-limited skills tests and exercises assessing your work approach and thinking that you can complete at your own pace.

As a potential assessment participant, you are obliged to complete the tests with honesty and to the best of your ability. Complete the assignments when well-rested and in good health. Please inform us of any factors that may have impacted your performance negatively. We do not recommend participating in the assessment if you are ill. In case of illness, please contact us.

Assessment meeting

We will give you more information at the start of your assessment meeting. You can of course take breaks during a long day. Please consult our personnel if you have any questions.

During the assessment, you are asked to consider your thinking and working methods from multiple points of view. You may find this challenging at times, but participants usually find the process positive and rewarding. It is good to know one’s personal strengths and potential for improvement – everyone has them. Knowing your strengths and potential for improvement can help you plan your career, for example.

Report and feedback

The psychologist consultant will write an assessment statement based on the assessment meeting. We will hold on to the report and your completed assignments for two years. You will receive a copy of the report within approximately one week of your assessment meeting.

You may also contact the psychologist who conducted the assessment interview for verbal feedback. Before the feedback discussion, consider which aspects of the report you wish to discuss. Many people find that feedback increases their self-knowledge.

The client always receives a copy of the same report as the person being evaluated. It is important to remember that the potential assessment is only one part of the whole process and other factors also affect decision-making. All decisions are made by the client.

Candidate's rights in the personnel assessment process

Potential assessment is one form of personnel assessment. The principles of every service provider conducting personnel assessments should include the objective of providing both the employer and the person being assessed with the best service possible. We respect the rights of the person being assessed under the Data Protection Ombudsman’s privacy protection, which include (regarding the personal evaluation):

• Participation in the assessment is completely voluntary and the person being assessed has the right to set their own limits for the assessment. For example, they may refuse to participate in the assessment.
• The assessment methods should be motivational and transparent in the sense that the person being assessed must understand which skills and characteristics are being measured.
• The assessment assignments and exercises must be relevant to the nature of the open position.
• The assessment is completely confidential. Any information pertaining to the assessment day is disclosed only to the commissioner(s) of the assessment. If the assessment includes a group exercise, the person being assessed is obliged to maintain confidentiality regarding the other participants.
• Under the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life, the employer or an evaluator assigned by them shall, upon the request of the person being assessed, provide them with a written personal assessment statement free of charge, if such a statement has been prepared.

Our personnel are happy to answer any questions regarding the assessment. Please contact us by email at cresco[at]momentous.fi or by phone at 020 741 5380. For more information about the rights of a person being evaluated or privacy protection, please contact the Data Protection Ombudsman.

We look forward to seeing you!