Frequently Asked Questions

General Enquiries

What does Profiles for Botswana do?

Answer: Profiles for Botswana is a leading provider of innovative human capital management solutions designed to unlock value through maximization of human capability and potential. Through Profiles for Botswana, employers in Botswana benefit from a comprehensive suite of employee assessment tools that help them gain a competitive advantage through great people.

What kind of products and services do you provide?

Answer: Competency gap analysis, shortlisting services, full recruitment services, career coaching, certified executive coaching, talent management, succession planning, psychometric-based coaching for customer service cadres, psychometric-based coaching for sales staff, psychometric-based team analysis and team building, leadership development, performance management

Are you able to do individual job placement?

Answer: Increasingly, employers are electing to request for CVs from agencies than to advertise. To ensure that your profile is handy for consideration, please submit your CV for inclusion in our database.

What kind of Psychometric Assessments do you have?

Answer: ProfileXT, Profiles Sales Assessment, CheckPoint 360⁰, Profiles Performance Indicator, Customer Service Profile, Profiles Pathway Planner.

How Psychometric Assessments are administered?

Answer: All our assessments can be administered on-line. The assessments are conveniently administered on the Internet, so you can assess employees and job candidates anywhere there is Internet access. Other administration options are available on request.

Do the assessment reports provide us with probing questions to be used with the candidate during an interview?

Answer: Yes. There is great advantage in conducting psychometric assessments prior to the final interview because of the opportunity to engage on challenge areas. The Interview Guide report is helpful in guiding the panel to ask the right questions.

Can we do a team analysis using your Psychometric Assessments?

Answer: Yes. The Profiles Performance Indicator has a powerful Team Analysis Tool that assesses individual team members’ working styles and consolidates them into a team that complements one another. The information is accessibly displayed in a ‘coach’s’ grid for better efficiency and effectiveness.

What type of Psychometric Assessment reports are available?

Answer: Profiles For Botswana is known for its multi-purpose, user friendly and comprehensive reports. Most of our solutions provide you with pre- and post-hiring reports that will help you manage the employee’s life cycle within your organization.

Do we have to install a software to use your Psychometric Assessments?

Answer: No. Our system is web-based. Therefore, you can utilize assessments from anywhere and at any time.

For Hiring Managers

How does the Psychometric Assessment process work?

Answer: Candidates who have been scheduled will get a link from the system to take the tests. Both proctoring and their physical presence at your organization are not required. You will have immediate access to the candidate’s results and available reports after the evaluation is finished. The assessment results serve as a guide to enhance your due diligence so you can make the best decisions for you and your organization.

How do your Psychometric Assessments help me select the best people?

Answer: Our psychometric assessments give you deep, objective and scientific insight into a candidate’s personality, behaviours, and occupational interests in the intensities necessary for success in the specific role. They help you answer the questions: can they do the job?; how will they do the job?; will they do and prioritise the right things?. The assessments help you gauge job fit, team fit and organisational fit.

When should I use Psychometric Assessments with my staff?

Answer: Use psychometric assessment tools to make well-informed choices throughout the life cycle of the employee. Use them to hire, onboard, promote, coach and develop. Use the findings to inform self-improvement amongst staff and to facilitate line managers positive impact on their direct reports.

How much time is required for a candidate to complete your Psychometric Assessments?

Answer: Our psychometric assessment tools are not timed and allow you to log in and out at your convenience. Depending on the assessment tool, the time typically needed to complete the assessment is between 20 minutes and an hour.

Find the right people with
our simple assessment tools

Profiles offers assessment solutions that enable organizations to select the right people and develop them to their fullest potential.

Find the right people with our simple assessment tools

Profiles offers assessment solutions that enable organizations to select the right people and develop them to their fullest potential.

Physical Address

Plot 129
Unit 1A, GIFP Kgale
Gaborone, Botswana

Postal Address

P. O Box 301789
Tlokweng, Botswana

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