Rab MacIver, Director
Rab is a commercial, client-focused psychologist with strong technical development skills and a proven track record in formulating and implementing effective recruitment and development solutions in both private and public sector organizations with a particular focus on finance and media sectors.
Rab joined SHL in 1991 as a researcher, investigating the reliability and validity of personality and competency questionnaires. From 1995, Rab managed multidisciplinary teams responsible for the redevelopment of questionnaires, most notably the OPQ32, which were, responsible directly and indirectly for the majority of that company's revenue. Rab later went on to establish a Scottish Office for the company, where he had management responsibility for business development and consultancy delivery across the country. This successful venture trebled SHL's consultancy revenues in Scotland in less than four years.
Rab's career highlights include: designing and implementing an objective assessment process to recruit a new Chief Constable, Assistant and Deputy Chief Constables for a major police force; designing an internet smart sifting process that has shown large improvements in the calibre of staff recruited and tangible bottom line benefits; working with the Organisational Development department in a Local Authority to create a highly innovative, action learning, feedback and assessment-based Development Centre for several hundred managers and leading a project to develop organization-wide competency frameworks for Fund Managers as the foundation for the organization's performance appraisal process.
Rab graduated from Glasgow University with a joint honours degree in Psychology and Physiology and followed this with a Master's degree in Occupational Psychology at Queens University in Belfast. Rab has written and co-authored academic and conference papers on the effectiveness of selection techniques that have appeared at BPS and SIOP conferences in the UK and USA and have been published in journals including British Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and Applied Psychology: An International Review.
Rab is a member of the BPS. Outside of work Rab enjoys cooking and is a connoisseur of fine wines and whisky. He has a keen interest in gardening, travel and current affairs.