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. . . or look at these related items (clicks open new pages): Editorial description(s): Product Description The book is a preparation tool for the 140,000 police officers plus other law enforcement personnel who work in police departments which report that they use a specific and increasingly used procedure, known as the Assessment Center as a major part of their decision as to who gets promoted. This decision regarding who gets promoted is among the two or three major decisions in a police officer's life. More specifically, the importance rests on the following three points: 1. If the Officer is promoted, s/he immediately begins earning between $7,000.00 and $9,500.00 more every year for the rest of her/his career, 2. The successful candidate is now elibible to compete for higher level jobs for which they were previously unqualified to compete, 3. there is substantial prestige and better working conditions for Police Sergeant than there are for the Police Officer. The candidates for promotion know how to study for a multiple choice written test but many of them are looking for a resource to use in preparing for the promotional testing. I ought to know this because I have been creating and implementing assessment centers for Police Departments and Fire Departments across the country since 1974. What is an assessment center? It is a highly predictive and merit based process for selecting supervisors and managers from among line workers. It uses simulations of the typical type of problems that a supervisor would encounter on the job (e.g. an In Basket Exercise which simulates the contents of a supervisor's in basket and requires her/him to make various decisions, a Coaching Exeercise which requires the candidate to prepare for and conduct a meeting with a person who plays the role of a Police Officer with some type of work problem, etc.)The book not only comes with a sealed packet of three assessment center exercises but also the answers to the exercises so that the reader can not only read about the process and practice actual assessment center exercises but also compare their performance against a scoring guide which is also contained in the packet and make changes before they attend their promotional assessment center. Reader description(s):  Police Assessment Center Preparation (14/14 votes)Find this first on the used market if you can and this should not be your first pick for police assessment center preparation. It is very generic and spends too much time on the overview of the process. Candidates for promotion do not always need to know the legality of an assessment center nor the reasons some agencies select them as a testing process. Law enforcement professionals competing for promotion have little choice in the agencies decision to use this process and normally little time to prepare. When compared to even an ARCO Sergeants test prep book, the three chapters on assessment center exercises were more concise and informative. It does include good exercises to familiarize yourself with the process and the author's advice is consistent with others.  Too much money for too little information (4/4 votes)I agree with Michael Troyanski's review. This book is way too basic and, at least to me, seemed very repetitive. The author spends too much time promoting the assessment center process rather than giving the candidate needed ideas and strategies. The pages are double spaced and the book has the appearance of being made on a copy machine. I was let down, given the astronomical price of the book. If you are new to the assessment center process it will give you a basic overview. I felt better prepared with materials and conversations I obtained from other folks in my agency that have already been through the process. Outdated and pretty much useless (2/2 votes)I bought this book to prepare for an assesment center for promotion to police captain. The book is pretty much useless. Poorly written and overly redundant. It really doesn't help prepare you for the assesment center as much as it gives you an overview of how and why assesment centers are used. SAVE your time and money and stay away from this book! Poorly edited and better places to spend your $ (1/1 votes)Purchased this book in preparation for a Captains assessment center. There were places in the book where the author says "the memo below says ...." The problem is there is no memo below. Very poorly edited and too expensive for what it provides. Another page had a paragraph that started in the middle of a sentence and did not even belong on the page itself?? Looks like an effort to make a quick $. I would not purchase it again for even a quarter of the price listed. For a Ph.D it is a poor writing example. Also , The sample assessment center exercise was for a SGT test not upper level. Choose a different author! Also the 2 positive reviews came after I posted this one and I bought the book only 10 days ago. I am trying to figure out how someone made Captain at a mid-western city in the last ten days and didn't post earlier unless it is the author trying to salvage a sale or two. stay away from this one. The Rowe book is excellent compared to this one.  Very good info (1/2 votes)Needed some guides for promotion preparation. This is one of several that I purchased, and I think all helped a little in different areas. If you have a lot of time to prepare and study (and you always should be preparing for promotion in ANY job) then get as many books & guides as you can. They will help you do better now, and get recognized now. When promotion time comes - you will be ready!  An Excellent Book For Preparation of Assessment Centers! (0/0 votes)When our Police Department announced that the testing process for the two open captain positions would be changed to an assessment center, everyone began a search for the best approach to prepare for the process. Dr. O'Leary's book is the one I chose. The guidelines and sugestions were excellent. I finished first on the oral board component and second in the overall scoring. Today I am a Captain with a major mid-western police department. Without the PROPER guide for understanding and preparation of assessment center testing, I would have been lost! This book is written in simple text and is easy to follow. MADE A BIG DIFFERENCE !! (0/0 votes)I felt very prepared after going through this process. It was worth the time to do each of the exercizes. I would definitely recommend the workbook and the process to others. (Page code from the SEO Tools, Toys, and Packages site) |
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