Pearson - Clinical and Talent Assessment - Australia and New Zealand

Developed in the UK, Giotto is particularly suited for use pre-interview, indicating particular aspects of a candidate’s work-based behaviour and attitudes which may benefit from further probing during the interview process. Giotto recognises the potential difficulties inherent in the accurate measurement of integrity and is therefore presented as an ipsative questionnaire. This helps to avoid the contaminating effects of a candidate faking.

Giotto helps to provide a more accurate and reliable measure of a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses across a total of seven dimensions. High scores on these dimensions may provide protection against:

• Carelessness, accident proneness and mindlessness

• Lack of commitment, absenteeism and tardiness

• Proneness to violence, hostility and intimidation

• Disciplinary problems, subversion and intolerance

• Disrespect for senior managers, overbearing behaviour and arrogance

• Theft of company property, wasteful use of resources, failure to share

• Inability to cope with change, lack of self-confidence, anxiety

Scores on these seven dimensions can then be matched to the requirements of a particular job. Although all
seven dimensions have general applicability, each role will have particular requirements that identify certain
patterns of scores as being salient to effective job performance.

Giotto will be made available online soon!