OPTO Evidence based Recruitment
OPTO is a personality test based on the Big Five Model that measures the most important dimensions of personality for performance and job success.
What you get
OPTO lets you identify
employees who perform
Increase your company’s performance with a structured hiring process to select the right employees. With OPTO, you can predict candidates’ performance in the job and thus select the best match.
Recruitment
OPTO provides a framework for effective and structured feedback with a focus on behavior that is directly related to performance at work.
Onboarding
Use the OPTO result when planning onboarding for your new employee. It is a good starting point to take into account your new employee's preferences for performing in the new job.
Individual development
OPTO can provide value in relation to employees' continued development. Bring up the result again by e.g. 3 months interview or test again when you plan development initiatives.
Leadership development
Take as a starting point the reports' management perspective, which describes social leadership and effective leadership.
Outplacement
Use OPTO to uncover job seekers' preferences in relation to the next job. Let the test be the framework for a structured interview. OPTO is particularly well-suited to roles and organizations with a performance-driven culture.
Talent management
Let OPTO help you identify your organization's talents. Analyze data on high performers and determine which profiles match key positions.
Why OPTO?
Evidence-based recruitment that supports performance
Instantly source, filter and recruit talent based on objective performance criteria, built-in analytics and intuitive reporting.
- Instantly filter and match candidates based on objective criteria.
- Eliminate bias and improve quality in talent acquisition
- Create a professional candidate experience and support your employer brand + Improve processes and reduce complexity, time spend-per-hire and total cost
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The best people for succesful organisations
Master Southern Africa offers digital HR solutions that help companies leverage their HR data intelligently and strategically to add value to their business. WHY OPTO? Using data to automate and eliminate bias is the smart way to improve decision quality in recruiting, strengthen overall business performance and create transparency across geographical, cultural, and professional borders.
- Data-driven candidate assessment that improves quality of decisions in recruiting.
- Analytical insight with objective job and business performance criteria.
- Digitalisation that creates internal efficiencies and lowers cost.
- Graphic, user-friendly, intuitive, and scalable output matching different roles and reporting needs.
Language
OPTO is available in Danish, Chinese (Mandarin), English, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.
Norms
There are national as well as international norms available.
More than 95% of all organizations are hiring the wrong people every year.
Documentation
What is the science behind OPTO?
OPTO is a personality test based on the Big Five model. The test was developed by Master International in Denmark, where psychologists, psychometricians and data experts ensure the quality of the test at a high international level.
OPTO has different national standards as well as a common international standard.
To ensure the highest quality OPTO is developed based on ITC, APA, EFPA, and AERA standards and guidelines. OPTO therefore meets the highest international standards for professional tests.
British Psychological Society’s Psychological Testing Centre (PTC) has reviewed and certified the English language version. Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has reviewed and certified the Norwegian language version. These versions of OPTO have been acknowledged with a quality stamp for meeting the industry standards for test quality.
Extensive documentation has been performed to provide evidence of reliability (5-10 studies published) and validity (30-40 studies published). Additionally, OPTO is classified with the HPCSA to ensure we live up and are compliant to local acts in Southern Africa.
Validity
- Convergent validity: median = 0.75.
- Criterion validity: correlation with performance up to 0.4.
- Construct validity: model supported by Factor Analysis.
- Expected group sensitivity identified.
- Questionnaire is free from item bias
Reliability
- Cronbach’s Alpha: median α = 0.81.
- Test-retest correlation: median = 0.85.
High standard
equales high trust
OPTO is registered at the British Psychological Society (BPS), which evaluates the quality of psychological test.
Customers
Companies we have supported in Talent Acquisition
We collect good stories about how our customers create measurable value with our solutions. The best effect is obtained by adapting the method to the individual business, large and small. No two stories are alike.
”We use Master's Assessment Solutions in every HR process within the organization. No decision regarding people is made without a Master Assessment".
- Arend Kellerman – People Relations Manager - Letshego Namibia