About Us

Over the past 25 years Thomas International has become a global provider of objective management systems and business assessment tools that help organisations recruit, retain, develop and train their people. Thomas’ systems enable employers to understand, realise 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.

Recently we helped one of our clients increase their business by forty per cent and grow incremental business with existing clients from £300k to £5.3m. Thomas is now an essential component of their business success.

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

Thomas carries out over one million assessments every year.

With a presence in over 55 countries, our behavioural assessments are available in 53 different languages and delivered through a network of local distributors.

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:

Personality and Behaviour
Personal Profile Analysis (PPA)
Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (EIQ)

Thomas360 Questionnaire

Aptitude and Ability

General Intelligence Assessment (GIA)
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 behavioural 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 programmes. 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 visualisation.

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?

Skills Online
Skills Online from Thomas International is a series of tests designed to measure hard competences and skills such as MS Office, call centre listening and keying, keyboard and secretarial skills as well as literacy and numeracy. It allows you to measure with certainty the proficiency of potential employees as well as establishing the range of skills witihn your organisation.

Skills testing is delivered via the Internet and is easy to adminster, use and interpret. It is extremely cost effective, enabling you to test multiple candidates at any one time. There are also automated assessments in other areas such as call centre listening and audio typing.

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 behavioural characteristics of an individual, job profiling helps you identify the behavioural requirements of a job.

Like PPA, results are plotted on a graph. You can then compare PPA profile against that of the job profile to assess how well that person would 'fit' the role. To assist in analysing 'fit' Thomas has designed a guideline (Goodness of Fit) that offers external, expert opinion on how good a fit there is.