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Cross-cultural testing

e-bilities® is based on modern theory and research into "intelligence" and is highly appropriate for cross cultural testing.

The gma-2™ battery is free of cultural bias and can be used to assess the general mental ability of test-takers from widely different cultural backgrounds. In addition to English, the gma-2 can also be administered in Thai, Chinese, Malaysian, Korean, Vietnamese and Indonesian.

The gma-fs™ battery is useful for cross-cultural testing of graduates and professional applicants. It includes tests of memory, numerical ability and financial reasoning, and is available in English, Thai and Chinese.
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Multinational adopts e-bilities® testing solution in Asia.

A leading provider of supply chain management solutions for the healthcare industry in Asia were looking for an effective way to quickly identify suitable job applicants across very broad geographic boundaries.

An additional issue for the company was fierce competition between organizations for the best candidates, thereby making it crucial to be able to identify and offer positions to suitable people in very short time frames.

The e-bilities® gma-2 test battery was an obvious choice for the company:

  • It has been researched for use with test-takers from both English and non-English speaking backgrounds, and is available in a range of Asian languages.
     
  • The automatic scoring process and overall general mental ability score allows them to quickly rank test-takers in terms of their learning ability and problem solving potential.
     
  • As e-bilities® is Internet based, the company can conduct tests at any number of sites while instituting a consistent approach to staff selection across its international operations.

The company has now established benchmark scores for sales positions which they use in screening new staff. To do so, current staff completed the gma-2, and their scores were correlated with job performance data, including sales revenue. Top performers were found to score more highly on the tests than poor performers.