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Do you have the knowledge and skills it takes to stand out in today’s competitive marketplace?

As you seek a fulfilling job, prepare for a promotion, or reach out for a new opportunity, you may need to acquire new job knowledge and skills to achieve your dreams. 

New graduates

You have your degree, but are you ready for the real workplace? Do you have the job-based skills your employers count on? Are you feeling overwhelmed by the job search process? 

New managers

As you begin leading others, performance expectations increase. Your employees look to you for leadership, and your executives count on you to reach organizational goals. 

 

Experienced managers

If your responsibilities are changing, or if you struggle with finding and recruiting the best candidates for your team, training to fill those skills gaps may be just what you need. Perhaps, you may be relying on old management styles that need updating in today's competitive marketplace.

Are you ready? Find out by taking the assessment of your choice. Uncover your knowledge with less than 60 minutes of your time. You’ll receive a personal report that includes a pass/fail rating for each core topic, along with a recommended list of courses you can take to bolster your knowledge.

Effective Communication Skills
Business Skills for Managers
Professional Selling ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ Skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Hiring and Retaining Employees
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Talent Acquisition and Development
Creating Workplace Programs
Managing Employee Performance
Marketing in a Digital  World
Getting Along with Others in the Workplace
Productivity and Effectiveness
Personal Career‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ Building

Effective Communication Skills

Communication skills top the list of nearly every survey on the most important soft skills employers seek in their employees. At the top of the list is listening skills, followed closely by your ability to speak confidently in front of groups, write professional documents clearly, concisely, and error-free, and understand the subtleties of non-verbal communication. 

 

This assessment helps you determine your ability to participate in clear, two-way communications and navigate daily situations with ease.

An assessment for everyone

Core Topic
Communication process and barriers
Listening skills
Conversation and questioning skills
Non-verbal communication
Business writing
Public Speaking

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Business Skills for Managers

Managers are expected to understand the fundamentals of employee development, budgeting, business planning, operations, negotiation, and effective meeting management. And, small business owners will struggle to sustain their business without this knowledge. 

 

This assessment will help determine your knowledge of the business field and readiness to fulfill the business requirements of a management role.

This assessment will help determine your readiness to seek and get a fulfilling job.

An assessment for small business owners, rising managers, and new graduates entering the business field

Core Topic
Business fundamentals
Business plans
Budgets and the bottom line
Business negotiations
Effective meetings

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Professional Selling Skills

Best practices for professional sales have left behind the hard sell, “buy this” approach in favor of a more customer-focused approach. However, the fundamentals of the sales cycle – prospecting, building relationships, discovering needs, handling objections, negotiating, and asking for the order – are the cornerstones of selling.

 

This assessment determines your readiness to master these fundamental sales skills.

An assessment for new graduates seeking a professional sales career

Core Topic
Sales basics
Relationship building
Prospecting
Sales proposals and presentations
Objection handling
Negotiating

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Critical thinking and problem solving hit the top ten list of soft skills employees need to tackle workplace challenges. And, employers are counting on your abilities to identify problems, use critical and creative thinking to determine effective solutions, and take action to implement the necessary changes.

 

This assessment helps uncover your readiness to apply critical and creative thinking to make decisions and solve problems. 

An assessment for everyone

Core Topic
Critical and analytical thinking
Creative thinking and innovation
Using critical and creative thinking for problem-solving
Using critical and creative thinking to make smart decisions

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Hiring and Retaining Employees

Hiring, engaging, and keeping the right people takes knowledge, skill, insight, intuition, patience, and some luck. It requires an attention to the details of recruiting, selecting the right people, orienting them to the work environment, and guiding their work experience throughout the employees’ tenure with your organization.

 

This assessment helps you determine if you have the readiness to recruit, hire, engage, and keep top-notch employees. 

An assessment for managers and new human resource professionals

Core Topic
Job analysis and specifications
Recruiting, interviewing, selecting candidates
Managing the work experience
Employee engagement

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Building Effective Teams

Teams are the cornerstone of successful organizations. You count on your team’s ability to cooperate, solve problems, resolve conflict, stay highly engaged in their work, and adapt to the rapid pace of change. In today’s workplace your leadership skills are tested every day in an increasingly diverse workplace, perhaps even connected virtually around the world. 

 

This assessment helps identify the foundation of your leadership knowledge and skills and determine your readiness to build high performing teams.

An assessment for new or rising supervisors and managers

Core Topic
Leadership
Team dynamics
Coaching teams
Managing multi-cultural teams
Managing change

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Talent Acquisition and Development

Today’s workplace presents a wide variety of challenges for human resources professionals. You are expected to find and develop a sustainable professional workforce, prepare the future leaders, and tackle the challenges of an increasingly diverse and multigenerational workplace. 

 

This assessment focuses on the fundamentals of employee orientation, onboarding, performance reviews, and high-potential talent development, a strategic initiative.

An assessment for human resource professionals 

Core Topic
High-potential employee development
The multi-generational workforce
Employee orientation
Employee onboarding
Performance reviews

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Creating Workplace Programs

Contemporary organizations focus on creating a workplace culture that fosters the pursuit of shared goals. The most popular programs HR professionals are asked to create include workplace safety, health and wellness, social responsibility, and dealing with the complex challenges of diversity and workplace harassment. 

 

This assessment helps you determine your knowledge about these powerful programs and determine your readiness to create them for your organization.

An assessment for new human resource professionals or those tasked with developing in-demand workplace programs.

Core Topic
Workplace safety
Workplace wellness
Social responsibility
Diversity
Workplace harassment

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Managing Employee Performance

Managing employee performance calls upon one’s ability to delegate appropriately, hold employees accountable, measure performance, provide constructive feedback, and navigate difficult conversations with underperforming employees. It can be tricky business, and you need to handle employee performance situations professionally and sensibly. 

 

This assessment helps you determine your readiness to fulfill these responsibilities for your employees and your organization.

An assessment for new or rising supervisors and managers

Core Topic
Coaching and managing performance
Delegation and accountability
Giving feedback
Handling difficult conversations
Conducting performance reviews

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Marketing in a Digital World

Marketing strategies have evolved rapidly as online channels have taken over the discipline. The sophisticated tools and techniques available today add layers of marketing options that extend well beyond printed brochures and ads. Marketers can focus on learning buyer behaviors, generating leads, and building customer relationships and measure the effectiveness of each channel.

 

This assessment helps you determine your readiness to tackle the wide variety of marketing strategies open to you in the digital world, along with the marketing fundamentals.

An assessment for new graduates or professionals pursuing a marketing career

Core Topic
Marketing fundamentals
Web sites and internet marketing
Writing for the web
Email marketing
Social media marketing

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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team play and getting along with others in the workplace

Effective team play is a top, in-demand soft skill employers seek and expect to find within their workforce.  This means that getting along with others and collaborating with fellow team members to achieve shared goals, solve problems, and resolve conflicts are core competencies for everyone.

 

This assessment helps you discover your knowledge about team work and ability to handle workplace challenges and opportunities with skill.

An assessment for all employees

Core Topic
Team work and collaboration
Understanding diversity and embracing differences
Understanding the dynamics of multi-generational teams
Managing and resolving conflicts in the workplace
Professional ethics in the workplace

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Productivity and Effectiveness

Time management. Personal productivity. Goal setting. Prioritization. Stress management. These are the core principles to establish effective work habits and stay calm under pressure.

This assessment uncovers your knowledge about each of these principles and helps identify areas where you can improve your skills.

An assessment for everyone

Core Topic
Understanding productivity and effectiveness
Goal-setting and attainment
Organizing and managing your time
Setting priorities and adapting to changing situations
Managing workplace stress

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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Personal Career Building

Finding a job and starting a new career can be an overwhelming task. Being clear about your goals and taking full charge of your career is the first step forward. Are you ready to create your resume and career portfolio, interview with confidence, and stay calm under the pressure of the game? 

 

This assessment will help determine your readiness to seek and get a fulfilling job.

An assessment for new graduates or professionals seeking a career change 

Core Topic
Self-leadership
Career planning
Effective resumes and career portfolios
Interviewing techniques

Test Details

  • Languages: English, Arabic

  • Length: 45 questions, 60 minutes

  • Pass Score: 75%

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