Basic Banking Skills Inventory (BBSB ™)

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Screen candidates for banking roles where math and mental agility skills are necessary using the Basic Banking Skills Inventory test.

The Basic Banking Skills Inventory (BBSB ™) instrument helps provide critical hiring information that is specific to job functions in the banking/financial services industry. Making these assessments part of your selection process can help you:

• Develop a more productive staff
• Build stronger customer loyalty
• Reduce employee turnover
• Attract new business with referrals from satisfied customers
• Reduce absenteeism and on-the-job substance abuse
• Minimize careless errors
• Decrease cash and equipment theft by employees

What It Was Best Used For

• Teller and Service Representative Selection: Screening incoming applicants early in the recruitment pipeline to build a more productive, lower-turnover frontline team.
• Auditing Math and Arithmetic Computation: Verifying an applicant’s raw mathematical computation capabilities and general math agility before investing in technical training.
• Testing Error Recognition and Perception: Measuring a candidate’s capacity to scan documents, find micro-errors, and carefully compare names or numbers to ensure bookkeeping accuracy.
• Evaluating Customer Relations & Leadership: Assessing a candidate’s core interpersonal skills, communication style, and natural drive to build client loyalty and secure customer referrals.
• Profiling Workplace Risk and Drive: Looking past standard resumes to identify self-disciplined individuals, helping companies minimize cash theft, careless errors, and absenteeism.

Used together or separately, the BBSB instrument and Personnel Selection Inventory – Banking assessments provide valuable candidate feedback that will enhance your human resource decisions.

The Basic Banking Skills Inventory (BBSB ™) assessment helps you measure a prospective teller’s or service representative’s ability to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the job. The BBSB assessment can help you learn more about an individual’s:

• Ability to detect errors
• Capacity to compare records for accuracy
• Math computation skills
• Interpersonal and leadership abilities
• Self-discipline and drive

What the BBSB Assessment Helps You Measure

• Error Perception
• Interpersonal Skills
• Name Comparision
• Leadership
• Arithmetic Computation
• Math Ability
• Number Comparison
• Self-discipline
• Cognitive Skills
• Motor Ability
• Error Recognition
• Perceptual Skills
• School Achievement
• Drive

Potential Estimate – an overall score that suggests the likelihood that a candidate will be a successful teller or service representative.

This assessment was originally a part of the Science Research Associates (SRA), assessment lineup, a subsidy of IBM. The ownership then changed as follows over the years and became London House, then Reid London House, then Pearson Reid London House, then Vangent, then General Dynamics IT, and finally Fifth Theory. This, and other related assessments, went off market around 2018 and is no longer being published or available for purchase.