About Us

Over the past 24 years Thomas International has become a global provider of objective management systems and business assessment tools that help organizations recruit, retain, develop and train their people. Thomas’ systems enable employers to understand, realize and develop the full potential of their staff. We give managers the tools to motivate, stimulate and encourage individuals in the work environment by raising people’s self awareness, self esteem and confidence.

With a presence in over 60 countries, our behavioral assessments are used by more than 30.000 companies world wide, and are available in 50 languages.

Thomas’ behavioral, aptitude and ability tests analyze people’s behavioral style at work, identify their strengths and limitations and help measure mental agility. They have many applications from recruitment and retention, personal and organizational development to team building, career planning, appraisal and training.

Our user friendly, straight forward software and internet applications enable you to apply and use these business tools. In addition our experienced trainers and consultants are on hand to give extra advice if required. Consultants generally come from either a business or HR background so are able to provide a true consultancy service to you.

The Thomas system assesses three main areas:

Behavior
Personal Profile Analysis (PPA)

Aptitude and Ability
Tests for Selection and Training (TST)
Skills Online

Job
Human Job Analysis (HJA)
Job Create/Job Profiling


Personal Profile Analysis

PPA provides an insight into how people behave at work answering questions such as - what are their strengths and limitations? Are they self starters? How do they communicate? What motives them?

PPA enables your people to become more aware of their work style. Only by improving their self awareness will they have the means to consolidate their working strengths and compensate for their behavioral limitations.

It can be used to improve your recruitment process, increase staff retention and enable more effective people management.

Tests for Selection and Training

TST measure a person's fluid intelligence - their trainability and speed of learning.

TST provide a reliable, accurate and valid means of identifying how quickly a person can learn and retain new skills and procedures. Academic achievement, whilst undoubtedly playing a large part in recruitment decisions, is not a truly effective measure of a person's mental ability and potential. TST measures a person's ability to learn and how they will respond to training programs. It is applicable for all levels of people. They are ability rather than intelligence tests and include perceptual speed, reasoning, working memory, number speed and accuracy and spatial visualization.

TST can provide answers to questions such as - Can this person think on their feet? Can they cope with the mental demands of the job? Could this person be a high flyer? Is this person a problem solver?


Job Profiling

Job Profiling enables you to quickly and effectively profile the job you are recruiting for. It gives you a template for a job into which you place a candidate with the best fit in terms of PPA profile.

Job Profiling is designed to help you think of a job in a natural and intuitive way. It is unique in its capability to quickly and effectively profile the job you are recruiting for. Before you can recruit the right person to the job you must understand not only the candidate's profile but also that of the job itself. Just as PPA enables you to understand the behavioral characteristics of an individual, job profiling helps you identify the behavioral requirements of a job.