Meeting Successful

Origins of PTES Consulting

Cecilia Denton is an Industrial Psychologist and owner of PTES Consulting. She is currently completing her PhD in at the University of South Africa with main focus on the difference in productivity and profitability of the public and private sector based on personality and cognitive traits of employees.

Starting as an Industrial psychology practice in 2008, PTES was registered in 2014. PTES consists of a team of Psychologists who are psychometric assessment and organisational development specialists and provide HR support to their national and international client base.

Cecilia’s experience ranges from the public to the private sector in all fields, including agriculture, engineering, construction, hospitality, IT, banking sector, imports & exports, mining, manufacturing, cosmetic and beauty industry, telecommunications, retail, aviation, finance, science, education & training, law, security, accounting, motor vehicle, rental agents, sales and more.

The PTES team’s expertise and advise is built on the latest industrial psychological research, staying abreast of the newest findings to improve organisational effectiveness. PTES as psychometric assessment experts will turn your psychometric data into behavioural effectiveness at work.

Culturally Fair and Objective Assessment

Our cognitive assessments:
  • Measure cognitive related elements/competencies that are practical and simple to administer.
  • Have wide application, covering the entire range of the literate population
  • Have no, or a very low, cultural loading.
  • Have a minimum of reliance on language, only in instructions, but none during the ‘doing’ of the test itself.
  • Render a quick/immediate ‘score’.
  • Measure various aspects of the cognitive function, e.g. cognitive ability, potential and capacity.
  • Measure a variety of cognitive elements/abilities, e.g. Concept formation, Mental alertness, Logical thinking, Original thinking, Spatial relations, Insight, problem solving – i.e. the test-items to measure each of these elements must be developed and included in the ‘experimental’ test and validated during the test-development process.

Our personality assessments:

  • Fairness : No significant difference found on applying the ‘Normal on five critically ‘known sensitive’ factors, namely race, language, gender, tertiary education and schooling and by statistically relating in to a selected multiple criterion of success at the 0,001 level.
  • Readability & Ease of Comprehension : “A maximum of sixth grade of the Fry Readability Graph was strictly adhering to during the test development stage”. No time-limit applies for the completion of the test and a trained test-administrator is always present to assist the testee with questions to ensure full understanding of words, concepts, intention and sentences.