ETC Consult has been providing the DATs to Career Guidance Counselors in second level schools in Ireland for more than 30 years.
Career Guidance Counselors use them to help students in their final years of secondary education decide which careers to pursue and/or which type of third level education or vocational training fit best with their aptitudes, interests and educational history.
How have they helped?
85% of Counselors view the DATs as invaluable instruments in their work – reliable, valid, highly predictive of performance: effective, efficient and user friendly. They recommend them highly.
ETC Consult also uses the DATs in its own consultancy practice in both selection and career planning contexts. In selection the company has used them in assisting organisations successfully select and retain talent at all levels from Apprentices to Engineers; Admin Assistants to Senior Executives.
In the career planning side of its operations, ETC Consult has used the DATs over the same period to help clients from 17 to 60 and from roles varying from semi-skilled to highly professional make the best career changes for them with a primary satisfaction rate of 75% and a secondary rate (after follow-up discussions) of 88%.
ETC Consult has also trained several hundred practitioners in the application of the DATs in both the public and private sectors.
DAT Next Generation
Differential Aptitude Tests™ or DAT™ is a gold-standard suite of assessments measuring cognitive abilities in a number of different areas.
The latest edition, DAT™ Next Generation combines cutting-edge Computerised Adaptive Testing technology or CAT to offer five new DAT tests in a number of languages.
