Rob Bailey Email & Phone Number

London

• Leading a team of research professionals to ensure the development of best in class psychometric tools and assessments• Member of Mettl's Executive Leadership Team for all organizational Strategy and Growth elements related to Psychometric Assessments

Thame

Leading a team of psychologists and project managers to sell and deliver customised psychometric assessments and associated services. The team is located in the United Kingdom and United States.The team’s objectives are to enable and increase client use of assessments on our online delivery platform, KF Digital, via the following:Implementing Customised Solutions for KF Digital clients, including:− Custom Competency Models and Reports− Situational Judgement Tests− Realistic Job PreviewsData Analytics:− Demonstrating empirically that assessments on KF Digital are fair, reliable and valid for selection into specific roles− Demonstrate empirically that our assessments deliver measurable business impacts for clients− Produce regular metrics for Platinum users of KF Digital in the form of Quarterly Reports− Project management of the above workShaping, continually improving, and enabling others to deliver the above work, globally. To do the above efficiently, profitably and with the best interests of clients and candidates in mind.

Thame

Leading Korn Ferry’s Situational Judgement Test (SJT) delivery, including:• Supporting the sales process of SJT work• Job Analysis• SJT writing• Validation and other analytical activities for our products• IT implementation and testingLine management of staff delivering SJT workContributing to the wider team’s activities, including data analysis, client support, training and process improvement.

Agreeing, scoping and delivering new product offerings - e.g. expert reports, online implementations of questionnaires, and company-wide offerings comprising Product, Training and ConsultancyThought leadership on behalf of OPP - e.g. through white paper development, research (often in collaboration with academics), conference attendance and presentations, and as a media spokesperson for OPP (through writing content for magazines, blogs, Facebook and Twitter)Developing a product strategy for intellectual property owned by OPP (many questionnaires are distributed, not owned, by OPP)Providing support to other OPP departments - e.g. through sales support, client support, knowledge share with Consulting and Training staff, collaboration with Marketing on PR and product launches, competitor analysisDeveloping policy and procedures essential to ensure ethical approaches and best practice - e.g. data protection, considerations for ethical use of sifting, legal considerations for use of psychometric instruments (this requires cross-company working with consultants, trainers and legal staff)Management of permanent staffManagement of the OPP internship programme (including recruitment, selection, induction and management of the intern students)

Project management e.g. of organization wide competency design projects and of bespoke computer generated reportsConsultancy across SHL's offering - e.g. competency design, assessment centres, workshop facilitation, delivering training, individual executive feedbackDevelopment of SHL's offering - e.g. automation, refinement and strengthening of consultancy activitiesLine management of staffPresenting - e.g. at high profile conferences, competitive bids, and other PR venues

A consultancy role in a small entrepreneurial consultancy, specialising in flexible working practices. The size of the company means involvement in a wide variety of activities, with project management responsibility.Consultancy - e.g. diagnostic work into the practicality of flexible work options in a major investment bankTraining - training HR professionals how to train their line managers in the implementation of flexible workingCourse design - writing and adapting training courses for clientsResearch/analysis - e.g. statistical analysis of shifts in attitudes surrounding flexible workPublications/PR - e.g. writing columns for other organisation's newsletters to promote and persuade re flexible workEvent organising - holding client events to showcase benefits of flexible working and the expertise of FlexecutiveProduct development - designing diagnostic instruments and producing working prototypes in ExcelBusiness development - making targeted organisations aware of Flexecutive, turning awareness into meetings, and meetings into fee-earning

Project management and design of SHL's generic Competency Framework - and international framework forming a central link for virtually all SHL activities and products (assessment, recruitment, development) - also practical use of this framework to deliver competency models for clientsDevelopment of information and processes to support the Competency Framework (e.g. interview questions, behavioural indicators, 360 items, development tips, and working with developers to deliver a modular database enabling consultants to extract the information for bespoke models)Promotion of the Competency Framework internally and externally (e.g. to leaders of potential alliance partners of SHL)Research into current psychological theories (literature searches; hypothesis forming; statistical analysis such as factor analysis, tests of difference and correlation; and preparation of research reports) in subjects such as emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, effectiveness of expatriate managersProviding expert assistance and generalist support to SHL's international offices (promotion of Head Office activities, presentations, training design and delivery, research, internal consultancy)Design of psychometric instruments and automated expert reports, mostly for delivery via the internet (including development of classical and IRT testing)Recruitment and supervision of temporary graduate positions, assessing applicants on behalf of clients via assessment centres, feedback and validation of personality profiles with high level applicants to SHL Group

A challenging and rewarding role in a multidisciplinary department assessing and treating clients with serious offences against the person and psychiatric disorders. I undertook:Research assistance including literature searches, statistical analysis and research administrationStatistical analysis of psychometric data to assess the effectiveness of treatment programmes (using SPSS)Administration, scoring and development of psychometric assessment materials Supervised use of clinical psychometric tools (such as the WAIS-R) in assessmentReport writing of individual patients based on psychometric and interview dataDesigning and delivering treatment - by individual work and group leading (e.g. teaching relaxation, social skills, anger management and memory improvement)

Promoting the Welfare Service; negotiating on behalf of students with College and external authorities; one-to-one advisory work with individual students; being accountable through public speaking and questions at student meetingsManaging the Welfare Service: coordinating casual, volunteer and permanent staff; budgeting, fund raising and selling advertising space; collecting statistics concerning use of the Welfare Service to evaluate effectiveness, guide developments and promote successes

Doctor Of The University (Duniv)

Msc, Occupational Psychology

Options include research in applied settings, psychometrics/statistics, selection and safety, managing employees, organisational change.

Bsc, Psychology