Financial Services Practice Manager Test

Ensure that your candidate has the skills you need with the Financial Services Practice Manager test.  It identifies the leadership qualities necessary to monitor others, make ethical decisions efficiently and handle complexities.

Purpose

The Financial Services Practice Manager Test will help you identify the person has the leadership qualities necessary to direct the work of others, make decisions efficiently and in an ethical manner, stay on top of the work in his/her department / office, motivate employees, relate well to others, live up to obligations, and work hard. This test will also help you choose people who have the mental ability to handle the complexities of managerial level responsibilities.

What It’s Best Used For

• Hiring and Promoting Financial Leaders: Vetting new external applicants or auditing existing team members for critical supervisory tracks, such as branch managers, practice directors, and office administrators.
• Assessing Ethical and Efficient Decision-Making: Measuring a candidate’s baseline ethics, reliability, and capability to make sound, prompt managerial choices.
• Evaluating Managerial Control and Monitoring: Identifying supervisors who will stay on top of department tasks, fulfill personal obligations, and actively motivate their employees.
• Measuring Advanced Cognitive Aptitude: Testing an applicant’s fluid intelligence and numerical reasoning to confirm they have the mental bandwidth to handle complex business data.
• Auditing Written Workplace Composure: Reviewing a candidate’s actual typed text answers to 46 open-ended statements to gauge their professional communication style and management philosophy.
• Structuring Financial Panel Interviews: Utilizing instantly generated online reports that map a candidate’s strengths and developmental concerns alongside tailored follow-up questions.

About the Financial Services Practice Manager Test

This test battery has three parts (1) a 157 question untimed personality inventory and (2) a 44 item test of mental ability (about equal number of items for verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, and abstract reasoning), and (3) a set of 46 open-ended statements to which the candidate must type in short answers. This test will probably take most people 2 hours to complete although it will vary from person to person because all components are untimed.

What the Report Gives You

Graphical display of scores, explanation of aptitude results, list of strengths and developmental concerns, display of the narrative comments given to the open-ended statements, and suggested interview questions.

Testing Process

Online testing provides immediate reporting. Proctoring is desirable but not required.