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SureSelect toolkit

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SureSelect modules

SureSelect provides a comprehensive suite of selection modules designed specifically for ATC roles – accessed via an easy-to-use online platform where you can deploy tests and view results. These include intuitive online assessments to measure essential skills and behavioural traits, and an optional  Assessment Centre component. With our proven expertise and decades of experience, SureSelect equips you with validated tools and processes to confidently select the best candidates.

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ATC Skill Simulations

Engaging, gamified battery of assessments that simulate key skills required by ATCs.

Four assessments:

  • Short term memory
  • Remembering relationships
  • Spatial reasoning
  • Radar simulation (safety, efficiency and multi-tasking)


Estimated time: 1 hr 30 mins

Why measure the skills within the ATC Skill Simulations?

  • Essential for ATC, and difficult to measure in traditional psychometric assessments
  • Highly face-valid – look and feel like tasks ATCs do on the job
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ATC Cognitive Ability Suite

Online cognitive assessments to measure key abilities required in air traffic control:

  • Detail accuracy – the ability to quickly and accurately check a series of letters and numbers on a radar screen
  • Coded reasoning – the ability to apply a set of coded rules to an aviation scenario


Estimated time: 45 mins

Why measure Cognitive Ability?

  • One of the strongest predictors of job performance
  • ATC involves complex processing – it’s essential that trainees have cognitive potential to do the job
  • Highly face-valid – look and feel like the ATC environment
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Behavioural Traits

Online questionnaire to determine if candidates possess traits correlated with success in air traffic control roles, for example:

  • Decisiveness
  • Emotional control
  • Organised
  • Take charge
  • Learning focus


Estimated time: 20 mins

Why measure Behavioural Traits?

  • Combined with other assessments, helps to determine a person’s suitability for the ATC role
  • A standardised questionnaire provides an objective assessment of the most suitable candidates
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Assessment Centre

Enhanced decision-making through direct observation:

  • Competency based approach
  • Individual and group activities
  • ATC-specific assessments
  • Quantifiable evaluations that complement automated test results


Estimated time: 8 hours

Interview training

Our SureSelect toolkit also includes training in ATC interview techniques, via an AirBook. Sample ATC interview guides are also provided.

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