Cognitive ability is defined as a general mental capability to perform tasks associated with perception, learning, memory, understanding, awareness, reasoning, judgment, intuition, and language. Cognitive ability is also often referred to as intelligence or general mental ability.
Research emphasizes that cognitive ability is the single best predictor of job performance and ****individual differences in the world of work.
Across organizations, cultures, and centuries, individual differences in cognitive ability and personality traits have played a critical role in all behavior, especially in organizations, from the manufacturing line to the boardroom.
The HiPeople Cognitive Ability Assessment focuses on three domains:
Problem solving refers to the process by which individuals attempt to overcome difficulties, achieve plans, or reach conclusions through the use of higher mental functions, such as reasoning and creative thinking. Problem solving tasks are one of the best predictors for future work performance.
We measure Problem Solving with figural analogies which focus on inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning involves generating and testing hypotheses and generalization of findings from a set of predefined instances. The candidate is required to answer as many sequences as possible within 10 minutes.
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A numerical reasoning test measures the candidates ability to solve problems with numbers. Numerical reasoning is a predictor of general mental ability and part of a person’s fluid intelligence. Fluid intelligence refers to solving unfamiliar problems, in that performance does not depend on prior learning, but rather, on abstract reasoning. E.g., concept formation, classification of novel stimuli, generalization of known solutions to new problems and contexts, identification of relevant similarities, differences, and relations among diverse objects and ideas.
The candidate will answer numerical sequences. The sequences are based on numerical patterns that are governed by a logical rule. The task is to complete the sequence.