Thomas International

Hi,

Has anyone worked with Thomas Assessments. Thomas International or Thomas Profiling?

Am looking for an opinion.

Thanks

a

Hi Friend,

I have not worked for Thomas International, however they have provided certain personal profiling tests help for us.

wats it that ur looking for??

Regards,
meghana

hi meghana,

thanks for replying...i just wanted to know about their tool and if you found it useful...and what you thought of the org...thanks
ana

ana

In the UK Thomas International have been at the centre of a long running debate about the quality of their tools for some time now. I have tended to stay out of the debate as it seems to be a squabble between occupational psychologists to be honest.

I have used some of their tools some time ago and found them to be ok to a certain degree. The personality tool based around DISC is good in that it differentiates enough to not make it a horoscope but it is done at a reasonable cost. A year after assessing new recruits with it I revisited their profiles and found them to reflect the person pretty well each time; so good marks there.

My only question would be around how much work they have done to make it culturally specific enough for use outside the UK. They didn't go through a major exercise to launch it in the UK (or at least that's what their detractors say) so I wonder if it can be reliable and valid outside the UK - not sure.

Hope that helps?

cheers

Derek.

hi derek,

thanks for your response. It is an interesting perspective. I do agree that their tools could be improved.

tc
a

In terms of the quality of their tools I would suggest you reivew the British Psychological Society test review area. You can see the summary review for Thomas here:
Test Registration

They score quite well in relation to the other tools that are reviewed.