Associate Consultant, Assessment

Associate Consultant

Role can be virtual, or hybrid/in person in NYC or DC

About Aon Assessment Solutions

Aon Assessment Solutions is a preeminent provider of online assessments with an award-winning library of adaptive assessments, advanced simulations, engaging mobile-first applications, and a large global team of industrial-organizational psychologists to support our clients and drive best practice by focusing on business results. We work with our clients to understand and shape the employment life cycle, from selection through retention, development, and engagement. We understand what it takes to hire the right talent and retain, develop, and engage them for optimal business results.

What Aon offers to team members:

Aon Assessment Solutions has an opening for an Associate Consultant within the Client Delivery Team. This team works in a matrixed environment to engage in client-facing projects which typically involve identification, creation, validation, implementation, and maintenance of online assessments and other hiring tools. Our clients bring us a wide variety of projects including both public and private sector, custom and off-the-shelf, global and local, and work closely with our consultants to optimize their hiring and development processes. We are always engaged in creating new products and interested in being first and best to market with the latest discoveries in our field. We are regular and active SIOP attendees and contributors. Aon Assessment Solutions provides a great deal of autonomy for our team members, with support and expertise from your colleagues always available.

Associate Consultants can expect to work on:

• Selection and Assessment Projects: This will include job analyses (survey-based, focus groups), selection process and project design, conducting adverse impact and validation studies, and the creation of technical reports and recommendations.
• Client Management: Working directly with clients in a service-friendly manner, fulfilling our obligation to provide practical project management and world-class expertise.
• Client Account Growth: Identifying additional client needs, emerging talent challenges, and opportunities to expand our impact. Developing recommendations, solutions, and proposals that support account growth and deepen client relationships.
• New Business Development: Building expertise in priority industries, client segments, and solution areas to help identify and pursue new business opportunities. Partnering with Aon colleagues across solution lines to discover needs, educate prospective clients, shape compelling value propositions, and support the sale of Aon solutions.
• AI-Enabled Innovation and Solution Development: Exploring practical applications of AI and emerging technologies to improve the discovery process as well as assessment design, delivery, reporting analytics, and client experience.
• Product Support: Aon has a substantial library of assessments! You will further develop your measurement expertise by gaining deep knowledge of our adaptive assessments, mobile assessments, interactive simulations, gamified assessments, skills and abilities assessments, custom and tailored assessments, video interview tools, and more.
• Collaboration: Working closely with both local and global colleagues to communicate clearly, stay aligned as a team, coordinate activities, and manage work to best meet prospect and client needs.
• Data Analysis: Working closely with our Analytics team and analyzing and interpreting results from complex data analyses and using data visualization techniques to display return on investment to various audiences.
• Staying current with the latest research in the field allows us to offer expert mentorship to our clients. This ensures alignment with a standard approach in all our activities.
• Other Potential Duties: Our clients give us all types of interesting and complex requests! Not to mention we regularly work with other Aon solution lines (including Health, Wealth, Risk, and other Talent areas). The depth and breadth of opportunities you will be involved with are quite expansive.

What you bring to Aon:

• A deep interest in selection, development, and assessment. You have studied both the science of assessment and have knowledge of the legal guidelines and regulations related to selecting employees in the U.S. You have an interest in learning about applying these principles on a global scale.
• A high level of integrity, conscientiousness, and initiative. You can work within a team or alone to meet deadlines and are not afraid to ask questions when you need guidance. You understand that being a consultant means pushing solid science into every project, while also being business focused.
• The interpersonal skills and desire to form solid relationships with your team and our clients. You can present technical information with confidence and make recommendations with good judgment.
• Commercially minded and energized by identifying prospect and client needs, shaping solution ideas, and contributing to business development conversations and proposals.
• Curious about emerging technologies, including AI, and interested in how they can be applied responsibly to improve assessment quality, efficiency, insights, and business outcomes.
• Adaptable and able to quickly learn about Aon’s assessment products as well as Aon’s other solution lines outside of assessment.
• Knowledge of the statistical approaches and methods used for assessment validation, can interpret and explain validation results to a non-technical audience and have experience and expertise in conducting selection system design and validation projects for organizations.
• Tech savvy and comfortable learning various assessment platforms.
• Some business travel – usually less than 10% of time.

You have completed either a:

• Ph.D. in I/O (ABD acceptable) OR
• Master’s degree in I/O.
• 2 years of experience developing and validating selection procedures, including managing projects and project teams, and/or developing and delivering leadership assessment services.
• 2-3 years of experience as an internal or external consultant (including internships), delivering Talent Management or Talent Acquisition services to internal or external customers.

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated expertise in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, applying evidence-based approaches to talent, assessment, and organizational effectiveness.
• Strong Communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and build credibility with partners at all levels.
• Proven Consulting experience, including diagnosing client needs, shaping solutions, and delivering actionable recommendations.
• Emerging Commercial Acumen, with the ability to understand client priorities, market dynamics, and financial drivers to inform decisions.
• Demonstrated Project Management skills, including planning, prioritizing, and delivering multiple initiatives on time and to a high standard.

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.

Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Pay Transparency Laws:

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $70,000 to $85,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.  The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.

The salary range reflected is based on a primary work location of Chicago, IL.  The actual salary may vary for applicants in a different geographic location.

This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary.  The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.

A summary of all the benefits offered for this position:

Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions.  Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.

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