Syllabus of the Secretarial and Office Aptitude Test

The Secretarial and Office Aptitude has been specifically designed to assess an individual's job prospects by evaluating working skills and job readiness. For this reason, emphasis is laid upon evaluating the knowledge of applied skills gained through real work experience, rather than theoretical knowledge.

The Secretarial and Office Aptitude Test is a scientifically validated test which is designed to measure and analyze important aspects of personality and behavior that are instrumental in determining how individuals perform in jobs which require Secretarial Aptitude. The Secretarial and Office Aptitude Test is a psychometric tool meant to analyze the most important traits that influence the secretarial and office aptitude. Upon completing the test, you are provided with a comprehensive report on each trait, an overall summary report and a hiring recommendation.

The personality traits that are measured and analyzed through the Secretarial and Office Aptitude Test are:

• Organizing Ability
• Sense of Ethics
• Interpersonal Skills
• Secretarial Skills and Abilities
• Personal Grooming and Etiquette
• Versatility

The Secretarial and Office Aptitude Test has a proven track record of helping companies and hiring managers screen applicants and identify productive employees based on scientifically proven traits.

Test Standardization/Validity/Reliability Metrics

Cronbach's Alpha^*  :  0.86
^*The reliability of a test measures the extent to which the variation in scores is due to true differences between people, or the characteristic being measured, or random measurement error. Reliability is generally assessed on the basis of internal consistency. The most common measure of internal consistency is Cronbach's Alpha. The value indicates the extent to which a test can be considered reliable for a sample of examinees. Any test having a Cronbach's alpha value of more than 0.7 is considered to be having a good internal consistency.

Content Validity^*  : The subject matter experts have assessed the test items and found the content to be valid.
^*Validity is the ability of a scale score to reflect what that scale is intended to measure. Kline's (1993) definition is: 'A test is said to be valid if it measures what it claims to measure'. A test has content validity if it measures knowledge of the content domain of which it was designed to measure knowledge. Content validity measures whether the test actually assesses the constructs it is designed for. It is a qualitative measure of validity.