Talent Q Fact Sheet
Talent Q enables employers to recruit and manage talent through sophisticated assessment of the personality and intelligence of its people.
It is run by highly experienced business psychologists who continue to influence much of the accepted thinking in respect of personality and intelligence and its impact in the workplace.
The company has created online assessments that are better, faster and cheaper than anything in use currently.
Personality assessment
- Employers have previously used different personality assessments for recruiting people, developing people and managing teams. Dimensions is unique as it incorporates all measures into a single assessment
- Superior understanding and measurement of the key aspects of personality have allowed Talent Q to reduce the time taken to complete a personality assessment from one hour to half an hour
- Feedback to employers is insightful and actionable. For recruiters, the feedback includes very specific interview questions which help them to further determine candidates’ strengths and weaknesses
Intelligence assessment
- Doing away with a multiplicity of verbal and numerical intelligence tests for people of different levels, Elements gives employers a single, unbiased, benchmark test
- The online questionnaire is ‘dynamic’ - it changes according to the candidate’s capability as they progress through it.
- With one test for the entire organisation, and the removal of graduate/non graduate versions, Talent Q is helping organisations find talent in unexpected places.
Key People
Roger Holdsworth, chairman, Talent Q International
- MA Natural Sciences (Psychology), Cambridge
- Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Founder Member of the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology
- Visiting Professor, Hangzhow University (China)
Roger has worked as a business psychologist since 1960. After seven years with the Institute of Applied Psychology in Sweden, five years with the National Institute of Industrial Psychology in London, and five years as an independent consultant in assessment, he founded SHL (with Peter Saville), which became the world’s leading firm in the area of psychometric testing.
As CEO of the SHL Group, he floated it on the London Stock Exchange, and grew it to have worldwide sales of over £70 million, 7,500 clients, and 1,000 employees in 30 countries. Roger retired from SHL in 2002, but continues in his life-long passion for developing ground-breaking assessment products.
Steve O’Dell, CEO, Talent Q UK Ltd
- AFBPsS (Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society)
- MSc Industrial Psychology
Steve brings a wealth of experience to Talent Q from his previous positions within the assessment sector. He was head of assessment for Capital Consulting, European managing director for OPP, chief operating officer at IPAT (USA) and head of CRM for SHL UK.
Over the past decade he has worked with a wide range of major international businesses and public sector organisations, providing psychological assessment, consulting, training and product solutions.