Assessment Center for recruitment
Detect your new talents through Soft Skills assessment
The first reflex of many companies seeking to secure and guarantee performance is often to intensify professional initiatives designed to make them more attractive to the best profiles. Promoting remote work, redesigning workspaces, and offering support services (healthcare plans, childcare, gyms, etc.) all serve to strengthen the employer brand.
However, when recruitment volumes become significant or recurring, these tactical measures reach their limits: the cost and complexity of such initiatives can quickly become prohibitive, without necessarily ensuring long-term retention of the selected candidates.
Moreover, these approaches do not necessarily address underlying issues of corporate culture or HR management that may be the root cause of recruitment and retention difficulties.
An increasing number of companies are therefore opening up to other selection criteria and recruitment methods. In this context, Soft Skills become a powerful tool to recruit and retain the most qualified candidates in your teams. Thanks to Assessment Centres, you can recruit profiles that are different yet consistently high-performing.
With the Assessment Centre, you benefit from:
Reliable and predictive evaluation
Technical and behavioural skills are assessed by multiple observers to ensure reliable and objective evaluation of candidates.
Tailored simulations
Draw from a library of more than 60 role-plays or co-design bespoke exercises with our experts to suit your recruitment project.
An innovative platform
Our Assess4U tool, developed by expert consultants, centralises all information to organise and customise your sessions effectively, either in person or remotely. Its user-friendly design facilitates and secures not only testing but also decision-making after interviews, thanks to comparative graphic analyses.
Enhanced results
Evaluations can be reinforced with additional psychometric or personality tests, such as DISC, PAPI, SAVEN, or integration of your own test platforms (CentralTest, Assessfirst…).
+ 100
sessions per year
8 to 10
candidates assessed per session
2 to 3
candidates recruited per session
÷ 4
turnover
÷ 2
recruitment time
1
unique digital platform
1
team of certified and specialised experts
What is the Assessment Centre?
The Assessment Centre is a professional predictive evaluation method, designed and delivered by recruitment experts to reliably analyse candidates’ behavioural skills and potential.
To achieve this insight, Soft Skills specialists use tests, interviews, exercises, and professional role-plays.
This process, which integrates easily into your recruitment systems and can evaluate up to 10 candidates in a single dedicated day, enables informed and shared decisions as soon as the session concludes.
Particularly relevant for roles where behavioural dimensions are key to success (management and commercial functions), the Assessment Centre is also highly valuable for technical or scarce roles (maintenance technician, accounting, etc.). It is especially relevant for companies willing to support the upskilling of their teams in such roles.
Our expert consultants provide all their know-how, proven methods, and advanced tools. As a recognised leader with over 10 years of experience delivering Assessment Centres, we help you identify and recruit high-performing profiles.
You need to recruit candidates through an Assessment Centre if…
The Assessment Centre can be deployed in many contexts, but it is particularly relevant when your company needs to:
Recruit candidates quickly
When creating or reorganising a department, retail unit, commercial team, or production site, you need to recruit strong profiles rapidly despite candidate shortages. Bring together around ten targeted candidates, your recruitment teams, and operational managers in a dedicated day. Share results at the end of the day for joint decision-making.
Expand your sourcing
When you cannot attract enough suitable candidates within the required timeframe for critical roles or high-volume hiring. Broaden your requirements in terms of background and technical skills, while remaining selective on Soft Skills that drive performance, thanks to the Assessment Centre.
Strategic recruitment
When you require specific skills to manage projects or strategic roles that significantly impact your organisation’s performance. The Assessment Centre helps you objectively challenge candidates and select the most suitable profiles while minimising the risk of error.
Reduce turnover
When your company faces high and costly turnover, mostly initiated by the employer, despite onboarding programmes. By focusing assessments on exercises and simulations, the Assessment Centre reduces risks of error and can significantly decrease turnover (by up to 75%).
Rely on the R.E.S.P.E.C.T competency framework and the 7 dimensions that reveal talent
Basing yourself on a reliable behavioural competency framework is the cornerstone of any successful evaluation. Too often, these frameworks are filed away, rarely updated, and poorly leveraged in recruitment.
With Actual Group, you benefit from expertise built around the R.E.S.P.E.C.T competency framework, identifying 7 key dimensions that reveal talent.
While particularly relevant for management and sales roles, these competencies have also proven valuable for support or technical functions, enhancing collaboration and both internal and external relations.
Relational Intelligence: excelling in social relationships
Emotional Intelligence: mastering intra- and interpersonal emotions
Situational Intelligence: acting appropriately in the face of changes, challenges, and unforeseen events
Pedagogy: sharing information simply and in an understandable way
Enthusiasm: adopting impactful communication and posture
Customer Orientation: bringing solutions and a strong client focus
Information Processing: handling data efficiently
Consultancy at the heart of Assessment Centres
Our experts don’t just deliver evaluation sessions.
For them to succeed, every Assessment Centre day is tailored to the roles and specificities of our clients. Our experts work with you beforehand to identify the behavioural skills critical to a role’s success. They then design the session, selecting the most suitable simulations and exercises.
If you already have your own competency framework, we can integrate it. Otherwise, we guide you with the R.E.S.P.E.C.T framework.
This tailored approach ensures not only the best match between your expectations and the competencies assessed, but also alignment between your HR and operational teams.
An objective evaluation that fosters workforce diversity
One of the strengths of our Assessment Centre is our commitment to fair evaluation. Our testing and interview methods are designed to eliminate subjective bias and ensure every candidate is assessed equitably.
This transparent process benefits both your organisation and your employer brand, offering a high-quality candidate experience. Even if not selected, candidates understand precisely which elements did not align with expectations.
With Actual by your side, you integrate recognised expertise, rigorous methodology, and a human-centred approach into your recruitment processes. We do everything to ensure your company benefits from the best talent, assessed reliably and predictively.
Recruit the right people for the right reasons.
Assess candidates accurately, recruit with confidence. Secure your recruitment with tailored evaluations.
We are here for you.