Financial And Insurance Skills Test

Skillsarena provides skills testing and advice to financial and law firms across the UK.  We understand that these businesses are often pressured environments that demand high levels of competency from their staff.

One of these practices is Irwin Mitchell, the 4th largest law firm (by number of free earners) and the largest personal injury practice in the UK.

'The assessments provided by Skillsarena are extremely useful for training our administrative and secretarial staff.  What's great about the packages is that you can select different levels of difficulty, depending on the job role. The audio typing package is one of the most useful as it tests speed and accuracy, which is obviously crucial for most of our secretarial roles.

We tend to use in-house tests like this instead of relying on recruitment agencies so that we can compare results between candidates quickly and efficiently. We can also use our in-house software to compare the candidates with the tests that the recruitment agencies have provided.

The assessments provided by Skillsarena are both cost effective and easy to use. The programmes are good for checking the skills level of candidates on things that cannot be easily assessed at interview. We are very happy with the service.'

Valda Fenton-Coopland, Irwin Mitchell Senior HR Assistant