Deloitte Online Assessment. Did you know that over 60% of candidates do not pass this really critical stage
in Deloitte's recruiting process? Hi, I'm Jenny Rae Le Roux, the Managing Director of Management Consulted,
I'm not an ex-Deloitte consultant, but I am ex-Bain, and I'm one of the worlds experts on consulting.
I know a lot about what Deloitte does, and I'm gunna walk you through some of things we know,
now, about the Deloitte Online Assessment. Which is of course, a situation that is always unfolding.
First of all, what is the Deloitte Online Assessment?
Well, there are a couple of things to know about it.
The most important, is that it isn't just one test!
It's multiple different exams. From which, one or many can be assigned to you
depending on the role, and the practice area you're applying for.
The common theme amongst them however, is that the assessments are psychometric.
What does that mean? Psychometric assessments are able to assess
multiple dimensions of your personality. Including your intelligence, your skills,
and your ability to adapt to challenging environments.
There are two main types of the Deloitte Assessment.
The Deloitte game based assessment, and the Deloitte aptitude assessments online.
So, what we're going to walk through are each one of those types, what you can expect,
get it, and if you need help with them, what do you do.
First of all, in the Deloitte game based assessment,
about three days after submitting your online application, you'll be invited to play a game.
And the game's name is "The Cosmic Cadet".
In this game, you will have a psychometric test, you won't know it, it won't say it,
but the test is designed to assess personality traits, such as your perception of risk,
and your ability to innovate.
The results of the game, give an idea to Deloitte about how you think and react to difference scenarios.
With different pressure, different stakes on the line.
The results come back to you in a personalized feedback report,
so you actually get to see what they are, and it identifies your opportunities for improvement and strengths.
So this is used in both the recruiting process, but probably more effectively,
because you're likely to implement it as a part of your training process, while you're at Deloitte.
The Deloitte online assessments that are aptitude based, are a little bit different.
These consist of three main ones, and I'll walk through each one of them separately.
The Deloitte numerical reasoning test.
The Deloitte situational strengths test.
And the Deloitte verbal reasoning test.
In Deloitte's numerical reasoning test, there is an untimed test.
Which is 21 questions, and it gives the candidate prompts, which include: tables,
charts, and other types of data presentation.
It is a basic review of some business analysis information.
And if you know ratios, if you understand how to interpret charts, and you know percentages,
then that should be sufficient preparation.
Honestly though, if you don't know those things, you should prepare a little bit.
And our Mental Math Course, is a fantastic way to do that.
We have drills and prompts, that enable you to do everything you need for a numerical reasoning test.
Right contained in that simple and very affordable package.
In addition, there is no time limit, as I mentioned before,
but you are still expected to complete the test in a timely manner.
So even though it's not timed, in terms of they cut you off at a certain time,
they're looking for your time to be lower, rather than higher.
The second type of test is Deloitte's situational strengths test.
Deloitte's situational strengths test is a test that helps recruiters see you act in situations
that might occur in an actual work setting.
So this is like an AI version of a behavioral interview.
And it provides an opportunity for you to demonstrate common sense,
intuition, and experience that you actually have in dealing with situations like this.
In many situations, there are multiple answers that seem acceptable.
They are more concerned about people that answer the ones that are NOT the most reasonable,
and we recommend choosing the answers that best align, not just to your intuition,
but also to Deloitte's vision and values.
So if you get the Deloitte situational strengths test, go look at their core values on their website.
There are going to be some things that are more important to them,
even though there could be multiple right answers.
The final type of test is the Deloitte verbal reasoning test.
And this test identifies how accurately and effectively you can extract relevant information,
from a passage of writing.
This really is a proxy to this critical reading section of the SAT, where you read a passage,
and then you have to answer some questions about it.
And the GMAT has something similar to that.
The difference however, is that the only answer choices are: "It's true".
"It's false". Or you "Cannot say".
Which gives you a little bit of a tricky situation because you're not answering a "yes or no" question,
or a most likely situation.
You're just answering, Is it "True", is it "False", and "Maybe".
And the "Maybe" one is obviously going to be a natural choice in some situations,
you have to very clear about the methods in "Maybe".
In conclusion, Deloitte uses these tests because it's an organization that is massive globally.
Hundreds of thousands of employees. And therefore, even more than that,
in terms of the people that they are using as prospects,
they are used internally, they are used externally, and they're used for their benefit,
but also, to make sure you have a great match with the organization.
You shouldn't work to over-prepare, but you definitely shouldn't be under-prepare either.
And if you'd like help getting practice for the Deloitte Online Assessments,
and Deloitte interviews, we'd love to help you.
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