Unlike other tests available from Thomas International the Skills Online suite offers both training and testing of specific business activites such as Typing Skills and Microsoft Office applications. The training modules are interactive with detailed aminations and narrations that you can work though at a self guided pace. You don't need to take the training modules before taking a test however.

 

In some cases, you will be given a multiple choice questionnaire, in other cases it is a simulation, for example, the Excel assessment is done by presenting you with an Excel page and a question about how you would proceed to achieve something, perhaps a sorted column. In other cases, you will simply have to type in the answer, for example in the spelling assessments. Others are practical tests of skills such as typing. There are seven training modules and over one hundred types of assessment of which most are available as basic, intermediate and advanced assessments.

 

Training modules	Assessments
Word 2003 Excel 2003 PowerPoint 2003 Access 2003 Windows XP Outlook and Internet Computer Theory	Call Centre General Assessments Microsoft Office 2000 Lotus Notes Spelling Secretarial Audio - PC Audio - Tape Shorthand Data Entry Basic Skills Office 2003