E-ATP 2011 Conference,  28 – 30 September, 2011

Corinthia Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic

Growing Talent in Europe: Gaining Advantage Through Assessment

cut-e held two breakout sessions on the topics:

• Extended Criteria of Fair Testing for Global Recruiting

• Automatically detecting job specific talent: the assess-o-mat

ASA Spring Methodology Conference, Tilburg (Netherlands), May 18-20 2011

cut-e presented at the ASA Spring Methodology Conference organized in Europe by the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Using psychometric assessment tools for effective graduate recruitment – A lunch seminar in Singapore

Date: Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Time: 12 noon -2.30pm (Three-course lunch shortly after arrival)
Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square, Singapore 039595
Chairperson: David Barrett (Managing Director, cut-e Singapore, UK & Ireland)

UNIVERSITITES Brightest Business Brain, 25th March 2011

It is Britains Brightest Business Brain where thousands of the UK’s smartest students are assessed against a cut-e personality, numerical, verbal and work simulation assessment with the top 60 brought to final assessment centre with business games, interviews and presentations designed by cut-e at CASS Business school to find out who will be crowned Britains Brightest Business Brain.

cut-e works on this with Group GTI , Target Events, Clifford Chance, CASS Business School and Towers Watson.

For more information click here.

cut-e and Group GTI Seminar - Graduate Talent Event
Wednesday, 16th March, London

For: HR Professionals – Recruitment – Selection – Development

Speakers: David Barrett (cut-e)Chris Philips (Group GTI –Recruitment Media Provider)

cut-e and Group GTI will be hosting a joint event to release the findings of their joint project the `Target Jobs Grad Report’. Built with cut-e technology and hosted and publicised on Group GTI’s - Target Jobs - website the Target Jobs Grad Report has assessed the competencies of over 8,000 British Graduates and the findings make for very interesting reading. To be the first to hear these sign up for the event.

Recruiting in a Recession
Wednesday, 9th March, 8am – 10am, The Gibson Hotel, point village, east wall road, Dublin 1

Thursday, 10th March, 10.45am - 12.45pm, Enterprise Ireland & IDA Offices (Mervue Business Park, Galway)

For: HR Professionals – Recruitment – Selection – Development

Speakers:         

• David Barrett (cut-e) 
• Brian Donohoe (Symbio – HR Consultancy)

Attracting and selecting top quality staff remains one of the most important factors for success in any company.

Our economic woes may have created a larger pool of potential recruits, this leads to:

• Line managers spending too much time interviewing unsuitable candidates
• An administrative burden of handling large numbers of applicants
• Legal exposure if every applicant is not treated equally
• The risk of getting it wrong – poor quality and poor retention

This seminar aims to demonstrate some state of the art ideas and solutions to help save time, save cost and maximise your chances of making the right choice.

cut-e event: Smart use of Online Assessment for UK organisations, 13th January 2011, Dublin

Location: Enterprise Ireland HQ, Eastpoint Business Park, Clontarf, Dublin 3, Ireland

Time: 11.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Day Agenda:

• Overview of cut-e and new developments in our company & industry
• Use new adaptive personality questionnaires with short admin times and high reliabilities and validities. Low cost - smart tools for configuration of personality to bespoke organisational competency models.
• Finding the brightest in an already bright pool  - adaptive tests that differentiate at high levels
• Building global multilingual talent pools across Europe, Americas, Asias
• Cheating and Fraud Prevention in online testing environments
• New thinking on behaviours predicting first time success

There will also be several interactive sessions for guests on systems with item generators and group  Q & A

UK and Ireland cut-e Christmas cut-e event: 9th December, Dublin

Where: The Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1
When? 2pm Thursday 9th December 2010

To thank you all for your support across the year we have organised a Christmas party / business event with a twist and we would like to invite you to it. We know it has been a tough year but we would like to give you a quick update on our innovations and achievements. You will get a chance to meet old and new faces from the industry and get a comic view of the world and economy from Colm O’Regan who we have hired to do a stand-up slot for us.
 
The itinerary for the afternoon is:
 
2pm – Welcomes with drinks and snacks and the cut-e story for 2010 and into 2011
3pm – Colm O'Regan, Comedian
4pm - More drinks, snacks and festivities until 6 pm ...... those of you brave or foolish enough are welcome to stay for the evening with us at the hotel where we will be delighted to take care of you.

Colm O'Regan is one of Ireland's up and coming comedy stars. His comedy festival appearances include the prestigious invite only Montreal Just For Laughs, the Kilkenny Cats Laugh, Electric Picnic and many, many more. Recently Colm was one of the main contributors to the hugely successful Kilkenomics festival. Colm also writes a weekly column for the Cork News and is a regular contributor to Radio One's The Weekend on One.

cut-e event: Smart Use of Online Assessment, 11th January 2011, Bucharest

We would like to invite you to our cut-e event on Thursday 11th of January, from 9.00 - 12.30 am in Bucharest.   We will present international and national case studies showing real corporate-specific challenges and solutions.   - Innovative use of assessment in Talent Management - Graduate Selection - How to find the perfect match - 360 feedback projects - How to increase the impact - How to make tests and questionnaires cheat-proof

Course: Usage of IT systems in HRM, Nov - Dec 2010, Prague, Czech Republic

From 24th November to 8th December, cut-e representatives are teaching this course as part of a Bachelor and Master programme at the University of Economics, Prague. 

Course contents: Intensive form of instruction based on a combination of "learning by doing" and an interactive discussion with a teacher. The aim is firstly to enhance the knowledge of students in the use of advanced IT systems in the field of human resource management, especially in the recruitment, selection and development of human resources, and secondly to acquire practical skills in the use of IT systems management projects in the international environment. >> More Info

cut-e event: online psychometric and talent management solutions, 2nd December, Dublin

Starting at 11.00 am, UK and Irish clients and partners are invited to attend presentations and interactive sessions including the following:

• Overview of cut-e and new developments in our company & industry
• Use of new adaptive personality questionnaires with short admin times and high reliabilities and validities. Low-cost smart tools for configuration of personality to bespoke organisational competency models.
• Interactive session on personality assessment systems and group Q&A
• Adaptive tests that differentiate at high levels. How the psychometrics work here
• Interactive session for guests on systems with item generators and group Q&A
• Building global talent strategies pools across Europe, Americas and Asia
• Cheating and fraud prevention in online testing environments
• Up-to-date technologies briefing with unique item technologies, negative marking algorithms and response patterns in personality assessment.

In the evening attendees are invited to drinks, dinner and entertainment in Dublin Town! We look forward to seeing you.