An assessment center is a process used to make personnel decisions in which participants engage in a variety of exercises and have their performance evaluated by multiple assessors. The goal of an assessment center is to simulate job tasks so that an applicant can demonstrate skills or characteristics that would be effective on the job.

According to the International Task Force on Assessment Center Guidelines, assessment centers:

• Conduct job analyses of relevant behaviors
• Classify participants' behaviors into meaningful and relevant categories
• Use techniques that are designed to provide information for evaluating the dimensions previously determined by the job analysis
• Involve multiple assessment techniques, such as tests, interviews, questionnaires, sociometric devices, and simulations
• Include a sufficient number of job-related simulations, allowing opportunities to observe the candidate's behavior related to each competency/dimension being assessed
• Utilize several assessors to evaluate each participant
• Employ thoroughly trained assessors
• Provide a...