Psychometric Testing

Tailored Performance Solutions

Mindmill’s Psychometric Assessments.

Mindmill’s psychometric assessments are designed to provide comprehensive insights into personality and cognitive abilities, helping organisations make informed decisions in recruitment, selection, training, and development. Our assessments are grounded in robust theoretical foundations and have been refined through decades of research and practical application.

Personality Assessments: The Big 5 +1.

Our personality assessments are based on the ‘Big 5’ Theory, originally developed by Raymond Christal. Mindmill’s Professor Irvine, who worked closely with Christal, extended this theory by adding an additional domain, ‘Proactive’, to reflect modern behavioural changes. This enhancement results in what we call ‘The Deep Six’.

Mindmill Self Inventory (SI)

Foundation: Draws on the Big Five personality traits with an added domain for proactive behaviour.
Purpose: Guides the management and placement of applicants in roles where personality traits significantly impact performance.
Applications: Suitable for work and occupational settings, counselling, career guidance, and more.
Benefits: Benchmarks scores for relevant personality traits, eliminating bias and simplifying the selection process.
Regional Norms: Mindmill uses regional norms to ensure individuals are measured fairly, comparing behaviour relative to specific norm groups, from general populations to specific samples like female graduate salespersons.

Levels of Self-Inventory Assessments

General (SI1): Suitable for a wide variety of roles.
Executive (SI2): Tailored for leadership and executive positions.
Educational (SIED): Designed for educational settings.

BANDS Assessment (Biological Adaptation to Night and Day Situations)

Purpose: Measures biorhythms and body clock to identify optimal working times and adaptability.
Applications: Helps in making informed occupational choices based on personal adaptation styles.

JOIN (Jobs and Occupations Inventory)

Purpose: Guides career development by measuring interests and motivations.
Applications: Assists candidates in identifying career interests and motivations before starting a new career or course of study.

Work Style Profile (WSP)

Purpose: Identifies the level of perceived self-awareness of an individual’s work style.
Applications: Helps organisations develop employability and personal development, and identify candidate suitability for specific roles.
Benefits: Identifies key strengths and areas for development, and can be used in the screening phase to benchmark relevant work styles.

Leadership Model

Foundation: Derived from current leadership theory literature and research.
Purpose: Provides insights into leadership potential and personal attributes in the context of managing and leading.
Applications: Helps reflect on management and leadership qualities, highlighting strengths and areas for development.

Predicting Potential with Mindmill's Cognitive Assessments.

Cognitive Assessments

Mindmill’s cognitive assessments are designed to predict an individual’s ability to learn and perform specific skills. These assessments focus on natural abilities rather than learned knowledge, making them accessible to a wide range of candidates.

Key Components:

Learning Speed: Measures how quickly new learning will occur.
Transferable Work Skills: Assesses skills such as memory, sentence comprehension, number fluency, perceptual speed, and spatial orientation.
Capacity to Process Information (CPI): Evaluates the fundamental ability to learn new skills and succeed in training.

Assessment Portfolio:

Error Detection (ED): Perceptual speed in recognising errors.
Logic (OR): Ability to visualise and manipulate shapes.
Advanced Reasoning (RC): Logical processing and evaluation at an advanced level.
Numeracy Skills (NF): Confidence and speed in reasoning with numbers.
Rules with Numbers (OE): Working memory and numerical rule processing.
Rules with Vocabulary (WR): Working memory and word rule processing.
General Reasoning (TI): General logical processing and evaluation.
Literacy Skills (AB): Perceptual speed in literacy tasks.

Regional Norms: Mindmill uses regional norms to ensure individuals are measured fairly, comparing behaviour and cognition relative to specific norm groups, from general populations to specific samples.

Why Choose Mindmill?

Validated and Reliable: Our assessments are registered with and classified by the British Psychological Society Psychological Testing Centre (BPS PTC), achieving the highest rating for reliability and validity.
Diversity and Equality: Extensive global diversity studies ensure non-bias and equality in all testing.
Advanced Technology: Our platform integrates various HR data sets, allowing for comprehensive analysis and insights.
Customisable Solutions: Tailored to meet the specific needs of your organisation, enhancing the accuracy of selection and development processes.

Historical Context

Mindmill’s assessments were initially designed for touchscreen use in military contexts in the UK, North America, Europe, and Australasia. Since its inception in 2008, Mindmill has evolved to offer secure and scalable online assessment solutions on a national and international level.