We create and validate a range of psychometric tests to assess personality, intelligence, aptitude and specific skills. Our tools, used by HR professionals and career counsellors across the globe, are designed to meet your recruiting, career planning and training needs.

Magna IT offers fully automated, customizable and highly secured online assessment system. The MEMC Online Psychometric Assessment System enables organizations to assess skills and personality traits of its potential and existing employees in one go i.e. both the assessments are conducted in one event in a continuous flow and results for both are generated simultaneously, which thus helps organizations save time.

Key Features of our online assessment system:

• Fully automated
• Time-bound test submission
• Random display of questions
• Security features that provide access against defined parameters
• Instant e-Result
• Complete control to generate and download result, in the client admin panel

For more details on our online tests visit http://www.magnait.com/HRExcellency

A content management system is the web software that lets you create a website without knowing any web programming skills, such as HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and such. Instead, you can put up a website by simply pasting your post/article from the Notepad and pressing the “Publish” button.

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.

Drupal is one of the best Content Management Systems (CMS). It is written in PHP and requires a MySQL database. Its basic installation can be easily turned into many different types of web sites – from simple web logs to large online communities.

The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, enables features such as:

• eCommerce
• Blogs
• Collaborative authoring environments
• Forums
• Peer-to-peer networking
• Newsletters
• Podcasting
• Picture galleries
• File uploads and downloads
• and much more.

The Advantages of Drupal

There are several advantages of Drupal. The few that can be considered are:

It is easy to use & update
You can update your own site when you want – where you want – without any hassles. No need to get your web designer to do it for you. Using a properly configured WYSIWYG editor like TinyMCE, you can even paste content from Word.

Reliable & Secure
Drupal has an extensive and active community supporting it. It is constantly being improved and is subject to extensive testing so you can count on it to be reliable.

Modular and Extendible
Drupal consists of several modules to extend your site’s functionality. You can add extra features like blogs, forums, e-commerce and calendars if you wish. There are multitudes of third party modules to choose from to extend Drupal.

Search-Engine Friendly
Drupal is loaded with lots of features including Search Engine Friendly URLs(SEF), categories, search function and many more. Content output is designed to be standards compliant which will not not help boost your search engine rankings but be accessible as well.

Value for money
Drupal is open source software, so you don’t need to pay any licensing fees or development costs.

Whether it’s a face-to-face conversation or a professionally written e-mail exchange, a meaningful message entails establishing a connection that leaves a powerful impression. Good business communication skills are important to run a successful global business. Magna offers several online courses and also develops customized courses for its clients. The focus of Magna is to develop unique methods for teaching effective communication skills online, using a self-directed interactive methodology that not only teaches but also tracks the participants progress.

Magna in partnership with RGILearning offers courses in written communication skills for business and technical professionals. These writing courses will quickly provide you or your team with the skills to explain business concepts, products, services, or ideas to others. These online written communication courses teaches how to write e-mail messages, letters, reports and proposals without having an external instructor to evaluate the participants’ work.

Magna offers the following courses in business writing

Course – 1: Get to the Point

Too much time is wasted writing and reading poorly written business and technical documents. In today’s busy environments we need to be able to quickly put our ideas into writing so people can understand them. In this course you will learn how to focus your reader’s attention on the most important information so your reader will immediately know why you are writing and what you expect. You will be introduced to the Writing Pyramid. The techniques we show you will apply whether you are writing e-mails, a letters, a memos, short reports, or proposals. We provide plenty of exercises and examples that will help reinforce the new techniques.

Objectives:
In the Get to the Point! course, you will learn how to: focus your message, write to persuade, write to inform, get started, identify key points and understand your audience.

Course – 2: Organize the Details

After taking Get to the Point! course you understand how to use the Writing Pyramid to focus your information and direct your reader’s attention to the most important message. In this course, Organize the Details, you will learn how to organize the lower half of the pyramid and use it to present your information clearly, logically and coherently in every document you write.

Objectives:
You will learn how to: use the pyramid method to organize information, ask yourself questions about your information, decide what to include or leave out of your document, write a summary statement and close confidently.

Course – 3: Sharpen Your Language Skills

The Sharpen Your Language Skills course examines factors that can negatively affect the information you are conveying, and will show you how to correct them and develop a sharp, emphatic, persuasive writing style. We address common grammatical problems and demonstrate how to correct them. You will have plenty of exercises to practice the concepts.

Objectives:
You will learn how to: use the active voice, remove wordy expressions, inject a personal tone, ensure sentence parts are parallel, improve punctuation, form abbreviations and insert numbers in narrative.

Course – 4: Writing Effective E-mail

Email is the most used and abused tool we have in the business world. You need to learn how to use it in an effective and efficient way so you present a professional image of you and your organization. In Effective E-mail Techniques you will apply the techniques you learned in the courses Get to the Point! and Organize the Details for focusing and presenting your information effectively when writing email messages. You will learn to immediately capture your reader’s attention and then hold it by arranging the details in a logical sequence.

Objectives:
You will learn how to: apply the Pyramid Method to short and long e-mail messages, write concise, yet complete e-mail messages, proofread messages on screen and on paper, focus your e-mail to specific readers and deal with forwarded message “trains” .

Course – 5: Business Letters and Memos

To succeed in today’s business world you must be able to communicate with people inside and outside your organization. Putting your thoughts in writing is an essential skill. In this Business Letters and Memos course you will apply the techniques you learned in the Get to the Point! and Organize the Details courses to writing internal and external documents. You will use the Writing Pyramid presented in those courses to learn how to write faster and more effectively.

Objectives:
You will learn how to: apply the Pyramid Method to create informative and persuasive letters and memos, make an effective start, convey information clearly and precisely, confirm an agreement or an arrangement, write confident complaints and claims, respond efficiently to complaints and requests, write convincing requests for approval and create a quality appearance.

Course – 6: Short Reports

Most of the information we need to communicate falls into the category of a Short Report. In this course we will review the Writing Pyramid and then apply it to various types of one to seven page short reports you write short reports which are written to people inside or outside the organization where you work.

Objectives:
You will learn how to apply the basic Pyramid structure to: incident reports, field assignment and travel reports, inspection reports, progress and status reports, project completion reports and problem/recommendation reports.

Course – 7: Formal Reports

In today’s global work environment, we find we must document our ideas so other people can understand them. The Formal Report is the tool used to convey this information. In this course we discuss how to plan and write longer reports, from a two-page investigation or evaluation report to a multi-page formal report. These are comprehensive reports you might write for managers, clients, city planners, architects, boards of directors, and so on.

Objectives:
You will learn how to adapt the basic Pyramid structure to: investigations, evaluations, analytical and feasibility studies, comparative analyses and justifications, and executive summaries. You will also learn how to design reports for reader comprehension and retention and how to identify whether to prepare a semiformal or formal report.

Course – 8: Business and Technical Proposals

Whenever you have a suggestion or idea and need to convince an audience of the viability and effectiveness of your idea, you will write a proposals. But a proposal doesn’t need to be a lengthy, hard-to-read document. It may be only a one-page memo or a longer email. In this Business and Technical Proposals course we discuss how to plan and write proposals, ranging from short informal proposals to longer semiformal proposals.

Objectives:
You will learn how to adapt the basic Pyramid structure to: informal and semiformal proposals, solicited versus unsolicited proposals, single-solution versus multiple-solution proposals. You will also learn how to design proposals for reader comprehension and retention, write executive summaries to accompany a proposal, compare ideas, products, or solutions, and use language to convey a confident, knowledgeable image.

Check out more on http://magnait.com/busiwriting.html

Built on the exceptional history, validity, and reliability of the four pairs of dichotomies relating to human preferences, these psychometric assessments can provide you with time-tested answers to your most pressing challenges.

The product

• Provides a portrait of both personal and work related characteristics
• Describes how people manage themselves and deals with other, as well as their motivations and psychological thinking styles
• Helps you identify talent by measuring results relating to occupational issues,creativity, leadership, amicability and tough-mindedness
• Includes highly intuitive reports helping to analyzing each individual to details

MEMCs 9 driver Motivational Analysis

Motivational Assessment tool is an exceptionally powerful analyzer of how well people will convert work related abilities and capabilities into performance by identifying an individual’s ideal role from a motivational stand point.

Motivational Assessment Test uses scientific methodology to discover a person’s deep – rooted internal drivers which are difficult to be identified at the time of interview. Then the report generated gives a detailed report about individual’s motivational levels and helps to decide whether an individual will perfectly suit for particular job.

Product Features:

• It assesses the fundamental dimensions of an individuals motivation which will profile any job
• Provides a portrait of both personal and work related characteristics
• The detail report generated will help the company to assess an individual as to what motivates him better for a better performance.

MEMCs 8 Ability Battery Test

The MEMCs 8 Ability Battery Test evaluates a person’s ability to solve problems and make business-related decisions using numerical, logical, analytical data. Many psychologists believe that intelligence is the single best predictor of occupational Performance and other important outcomes, including health, wealth, and life satisfaction. So, Aptitude Ability Test is said to analyze an individual’s intelligence which will help the companies to recruit and select the right person who will help the company in its growth.

For more details log on to http://www.magnait.com/HRExcellency

Psychometric analysis reflects an individual’s personality as well as helps identify his job based competencies. Given the high attrition rates, it has become imperative that companies hire candidates with not only the right technical skills, but also the attitude and behaviour pattern which matches the company’s profile and culture.

Psychometric analysis also helps in assessing the training needs of employees.It also identifies their learning styles before they commence any kind of training. For example, a training program that is completely based on learning facilitated through visual cues might not be very beneficial to an individual who assimilates information more readily when he is listening to another’s instructions.

Psychometric analysis also help youngsters in choosing their career as every human being has a speciality of his own. Pshychometric analysis helps to identify the talent and then one can choose the career that suites their talent.

Magna IT in collaboration with MEC India provides these pshchometric analysis. You can check out more on http://www.magnait.com/HRExcellency/

Psychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of educational and psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.

Psychometric analysis is the analysis of psychological tests and for measure sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc. Psychometric tests aim to measure attributes like intelligence, aptitude and personality. They provide a potential employer with an insight into how well you work with other people, how well you handle stress, and whether you will be able to cope with the intellectual demands of the job.

Psychometric tests fall into two main categories. Personality questionnaires, which try to measure aspects of your personality, and aptitude tests which try to measure your intellectual and reasoning abilities.
Personality testing helps to build a profile of characteristic, behavioral style and personality. Ability and aptitude testing measure natural talent, and current and future potential.

Psychometric testing is a handy tool for recruiting potential employees and there is hardly any domain that does not require organizations to assess its employees personality. These tests are conducted by organizations when employing candidates to determine whether the candidate’s attitude match with the company’s work culture. Psychometric testing is a new standard for employers to ascertain preliminary judgment of employee’s behavior. Psychometric tests are used by many companies to reduce human bias in selection and to give it a scientific touch.

• No Downloads – All Courses available through the Internet
• No additional Software needed
• All the courses are developed with the help of simulations and audio will guide you throughout the course
•  Track the performance and publish the reports  
• Print a certificate of completion

 Excel 2007:

The Excel 2007 series introduces learners to the newly designed interface of Microsoft Excel 2007. It provides a basic introduction to Excel including entering and editing cell data, selecting cell ranges, and formatting worksheet data. Learners will also be able to print worksheets, add comments, complete basic calculations and formulas, and create charts using Excel 2007.

 For Whom?

This course is for anyone new to Microsoft Excel, or for individuals looking for an Excel refresher or for the corporate training to update their employees on the new version of the MS office

 Features:

•  Lessons with flash and audio by integrating animations, interactive lesson Introductions, and Simulations
• Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises
• Full-page images allow learners to experience an application as if it were open on their computer
• Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied
• A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics
• Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank
• A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.  

PowerPoint 2007:

The PowerPoint 2007 course is designed for beginning and intermediate PowerPoint users. This course teaches learners about creating and editing presentations and individual slides, outlining presentations, and printing presentations. The courses also detail topics such as formatting presentations and slides and using masters, color schemes, and templates. Learners will find out how to incorporate pictures, clip art, sound, video, and animation into a presentation.

For Whom?

This course is for anyone new to PowerPoint, or for individuals looking to get most out of using PowerPoint 2007, or for the corporate training to update their employees on the new version of the MS Office

Features:

• Simulations that allow users to practice course skills on how to use master slides, headers footers, color schemes, animation, hyperlinks  etc
• Exercises that allow users to practice and learn the application
• A Skill Assessment

MS Word

This course is developed to train and show how to use Word 2007 to create word processing documents. It shows you how to use the new Word 2007 interface, how to create and format documents, and how to add lists, tables, and images to your documents.

For Whom?

This course is for anyone new to Microsoft Word, or for individuals looking for an MS Word refresher or for the corporate training to update their employees on the new version of the MS office

Features:

• This course includes topics like getting started, typing and editing text, formatting text, formatting paragraph and lists, building tables and working with images
• Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises
• Full-page images allow learners to experience an application as if it were open on their computer
• Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied
• Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank
• A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.

MS Access:

This course covers how to use Access 2007 to create, modify, and access databases. It shows the learner how to use the new Access 2007 interface, as well as how to build tables, forms, and reports. Learners will also be able to use queries and filters to sort through data.

For Whom?
This course is for anyone who wants to learn more about Access 2007.

Features:

• Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises.
• Topics included in this course are introduction to Access, creating tables, working with tables creating forms, creating reports and creating queries and filters