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Assessment Centers, Tara Myers, Megan Paul
Assessment Centers, Tara Myers, Megan Paul
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What are assessment centers? Assessment centers measure knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics by assessing participants’ responses to job-related simulations. Assessment centers can be used for hiring, placement, and career and skill development (Gaugler, Rosenthal, Thornton, and Bentson, 1987). Typically, participants complete a combination of in-basket, leaderless group discussion, role play, case analysis, and oral presentation exercises (Hoffman, Kennedy, LoPilato, Monahan, and Lance, 2015). Within each exercise, participants review job-relevant information and complete tasks. For the in-basket, participants are presented with documents (e.g., emails, memos, reports, requests—things that might be in an inbox) to which they provide responses and about …
Proses Asesmen Berbasis Kompetensi Bagi Communityworker Di Lembaga Sertifikasi Profesi Fasilitator Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (Lsp Fpm), Chamiyatus Sidqiyah, Ety Rahayu
Proses Asesmen Berbasis Kompetensi Bagi Communityworker Di Lembaga Sertifikasi Profesi Fasilitator Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (Lsp Fpm), Chamiyatus Sidqiyah, Ety Rahayu
Jurnal Pembangunan Manusia
Community workers have roles and functions in empowering communities, especially those who are disadvantaged, poor, or lacking access to increased prosperity. Since 2000, the Indonesian Government has developed poverty alleviation programmes with community empowerment approaches and many Community Worker personnel recruited as PNPM Mandiri facilitators in rural and urban areas in various regions in Indonesia. Currently, the number of Community workers has reached tens of thousands but the future of this profession has a problem because the policy and law labor regulation demands that every profession that works should be able to demonstrate its competence through assessment based competency with …