Book excerpt: With intense competition for top management jobs and increased pressure on organizations to select the best candidates, more and more firms are now using challenging psychometric tests as part of their recruitment and assessment procedures. Also used to identify management potential in existing staff, tests are increasingly used to select the weakest employees when job cuts beckon. Management Level Psychometric Assessments offers more types of assessment than any other management testing book. Ideal for managers applying for supervisory roles or jobs on the board, for promotions as well as new employment, it includes tests on quantitative reasoning, currency conversion, verbal reasoning, decision analysis, situational awareness and visual estimation. Along with detailed answers and explanations, it places particular emphasis on getting you test-ready, with advice on the presentation part of your assessment and crucial information on which tests you are most likely to face for your industry. Management Level Psychometric Assessments is an invaluable resource providing all the practice you need to pass those tests and succeed against the competition.