Executive Solution

The Executive Solution helps assess planning, directing, coordinating, formulating policies and overall management skills of senior executives.

The Executive solution is intended for use with senior executive level positions responsible for planning, directing, or coordinating key business activities and operations at the highest level of an organization. Executives at this level often accomplish their work through subordinate executives and provide overall direction to their organization by determining and formulating policies within guidelines set up by a board of directors or similar governing body.

Potential job titles that use this solution are: Executive Vice President, President, and Executive Director.

What It’s Best Used For

• C-Suite and Top-Tier Selection: Screening new external applicants or vetting internal promotion tracks for the highest level of organizational leadership, including Presidents, Executive Vice Presidents, and Executive Directors.
• Assessing Strategic Business Acumen: Pinpointing visionaries who can successfully anticipate future market needs, systematically analyze organizational data, and design innovative solutions.
• Evaluating Complex Deductive Logic: Measuring a leader’s fluid mental ability to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of arguments, navigate incomplete corporate data, and derive sound, logical conclusions.
• Gauging Operational Drive and Execution: Identifying highly self-confident individuals who natively embrace a fast-paced lifestyle, take charge in group situations, and push hard to achieve difficult goals.
• Vetting Executive Ethics and Temperament: Reviewing a candidate’s baseline dependability, self-motivation, and adherence to high ethical standards while remaining relaxed in high-pressure environments.
• Measuring Strategic Relationship Building: Flagging executives who actively seek to understand and impact the thoughts of others to gain stakeholder support and commitment.
• Unproctored Remote Candidate Screening: Administering secure online pre-employment steps to busy executive candidates remotely, as the adaptive testing framework keeps evaluations secure without physical supervision.

Job Level: Executive
Job Family/Title: Business Suite
Average Testing Time (minutes): 74 minutes
Maximum Number of Questions: 237 items
Number of Sittings: One
Designed for Unproctored Environment: Yes
Question Format: Multiple Choice, Adaptive

Scales

Deductive Reasoning: This assessment measures the ability to draw logical conclusions based on information provided, identify strengths and weaknesses of arguments, and complete scenarios using incomplete information. It provides an indication of how an individual will perform when asked to develop solutions when presented with information and draw sound conclusions from data. This form of reasoning is commonly required to support work and decision making in many different types of jobs at many levels.

Executive Potential: This is a measure of the tendency to succeed in upper management positions across industry type and functional area. This is characterized by showing a strong academic and social background and high aspirations concerning work.

Leadership Professionalism: This is a measure of the tendency to have potential for professional success across industry type and functional area. This is characterized by scores that are derived from responses to questions regarding academic and social background, and aspirations concerning work.

Drive for Results: This is a measure of the tendency to take a leadership role within an organization. This trait is characterized by: taking pride in reaching difficult goals; enjoying a fast-paced lifestyle; having high self-confidence in his/her abilities; and taking charge in group situations.

Building Relationships: This is a measure of the tendency to understand and impact the thoughts and feelings of others. This trait is characterized by: being open to the ideas of others; being supportive and concerned about others; and gaining the support and commitment of others.

Self Motivation: This is a measure of the tendency to be even-tempered and responsible in the workplace. This trait is characterized by: being dependable; behaving in accordance with high ethical standards; being optimistic; and remaining relaxed in stressful situations.

Business Acumen: This is a measure of the tendency to analyze and detect underlying themes when solving problems. This is a trait characterized by: visualizing future needs and problems; being creative and innovative when generating new ideas; systematically looking at data; and planning and organizing tasks.