NOORUL HAKIM BIN SURONO TM13-10386 Assignment: STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF ASSESSMENT CENTRES. An assessment centre is a place where an individual goes through an assessment in which it determines the suitability of the individual for a particular role or job that is made available by the company. It also tests an individual’s performance across a range of situations which inevitably reflects on one’s job competencies in handling the job. The common conduct of an assessment centre contains a group of participants who will be made to go through a variety of exercises while being observed by a team of trained assessors who would pen down and evaluate the performance of each individual by comparing it against a number of predetermined, job related behaviours (Charles, 2005). For the assignment given to the psychology students, the module, Industrial and Organizational psychology, required the students to design a mock assessment centre so as to provide a better understanding of the functions of a centre as well as in conducting a portion of the assessment centre as a final presentation. …show more content…
Prior to advertising the job availability, the company that engages the services of an assessment centre will work together in designing the best methods available through obtaining the necessary information and data of the job offered. This can be seen through the assessment centre in which we had designed for junior flight attendants who were assessed on their abilities to be considered a position in the senior flight attendant position. The assessment includes having attained information and feedbacks from their work colleagues as well as commendations by