Provides detailed guidance on every aspect of the selection process including the required competencies, how to complete the application form, and the tests candidates face at an assessment centre. There are plenty of practice questions and exercises, such as numerical reasoning, verbal logical reasoning, report writing, role play exercises, and advice on the interview itself. Candidates can also find out what to expect from the medical and how to prepare for the physical fitness test.This book is the most comprehensive guide to the new police recruitment procedures available.

Many would-be entrants to the UK police service are unsuccessful because at some point in the assessment system they fail to demonstrate their full potential. Failure may be the result of a variety of factors such as: stress and anxiety; being unable to cope with the psychometric tests; having to perform in front of other people while being observed and evaluated. If you are applying to join a police force in England or Wales, How to Pass the Police Selection System will help you to do your very best in every part of the assessment and achieve your goal. It provides essential guidance on all aspects of the selection process, including: entry requirements and competencies; completion of the application form; the assessment centre; psychometric tests; role-play and written exercises; the assessment centre interview and the job-related fitness test, making it the most comprehensive guide to the new police recruitment procedures available.

Secondary school selection tests are used extensively by schools and educational authorities. This text contains hundreds of such practice questions and reflects the format, content and level of difficulty of the majority of the tests.

Compiled by a psychometric testing specialist and bestselling author, this book has three main aims: careers guidance, preparation, and personal performance improvement. The first edition sold over 50,000 copies worldwide.

Before you prepare for an interview it's useful to understand how organisations decide what they are looking for in a candidate, how they use this to draw up the questions, how selection procedures work, why employers conduct interviews and what's likely to happen at the average interview. Ultimate Interview will give you all of the background information that you need as well as essential practice. Uniquely among interview guidebooks, it organises common interview questions according to specific job types, such as management, sales and marketing, administrative, clerical. This helps you to focus on the questions that are most relevant to your situation. Each section looks at the thinking behind the questions, and suggests an effective method of answering. With additional advice on researching the background to a vacancy, and how skills and characteristics can be assessed and developed, this book is a must-have for all serious job hunters.

Designed as a companion to the highly successful "How to Pass Numeracy Tests," this workbook contains 600 new practice questions and practical material and realistic timed mock tests to help readers recognize, interpret, and solve numerical problems.

IQ and Personality Tests contains hundreds of practice questions for aptitude tests and personality questionnaires. The personality questions look at attitudes and values, often in an entertaining way. The aptitude questions are organized into two IQ tests typical of the type and style of questions that candidates are likely to encounter in actual IQ tests. Answers and a simple analysis of scores are given so that readers can assess their performance. IQ and Personality Tests provides great practice material for those who are faced with employment-related tests; they also provide great entertainment for those who aren't.

With more than 400 brand new practice questions together with answers, explanations, and a guide to assessing performance, readers can test their grammar and comprehension, advanced verbal aptitude, logical analysis, and mental arithmetic.

Test your numerical aptitude contains a comprehensive range of tests of a type used by business schools, universities and employers: revision guide to working with numbers; applied and abstract aptitude tests; measures of motivational preferences and personality style; career advice; career index.

This new edition of the best-selling job-hunting book of all time should be your essential companion if you are looking for a job. Dealing with the whole process, from creating an outstanding CV and answering the most dreaded interview questions to negotiating a salary, it is suitable for job-seekers at any stage of their career. Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions is full of examples of tough questions that interviewers like to throw at you, showing you how to answer them in a way that will advance your application and help you to secure your dream job.