Assistants’ Skills Tests

Based on the above referenced call for tenders, it looks likely at the time of writing thatAssistants are going to have two main types of testing in relation to their professional skills:–
Accuracy Tests
: These generally aim at measuring your ability to detect errors in a givenset of information and gauge your concentration skills (e.g. “How many “ µ ” signs arethere in the following sequence: µµηηυηµηµυυµµηµµυµµηηµυυµηηηµµ ”). This is ahighly challenging but rather simple type of exercise; it nevertheless does relate to yourfuture tasks e.g. if your superior asks you to revise a ten-page document and identifypossible typos or omitted commas under time pressure.–
IT Literacy Tests
: These tests aim at measuring your ability to learn and use a certainpiece of software, which predicts practical exercises that require you to perform certaintasks or operations on a computer according to instructions. This may also include cer-tain tests where your time management skills are tested by having a simulation envi-ronment in which a meeting must be set up in a software (and you need to sort throughthe conflicting agendas of participants) or a document such as an official letter must beduly formatted and edited on a computer.–
E-Tray Exercise
: This type of test is the most complex one of the three and it is known thatyou can expect such an exercise in the assessment phase of the recruitment competition.The chief goal is to evaluate your skills to prioritise and organise: this is a business simu-lation exercise in which you will skim through a large number of items such as internaland external memos, telephone and fax messages, e-mails, reports and correspondence,together with information about the structure of the organisation and your role therein.The e-tray exercise is the electronic (computer-based) version of the classic in-tray exercise;given the limitations of a printed publication, you can find a full sample of the latter in