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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 the OPQ32 questionnaires, which were, responsible directly and indirectly for the majority of SHL’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.
As part of his consultancy delivery for clients Rab has designed and implemented assessment processes to recruit new Assistant, Deputy and Chief Constables for a major police force; designed internet smart sifting process that have 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 Research and Development Director at Saville Consulting where he has led the development of Saville Consulting’s Wave questionnaires . He lives in Glasgow and is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam where he is researching new approaches to assessment.
Outside of work Rab enjoys cooking and is a connoisseur of fine wines and whisky as well as holding an interest in gardening, travel and current affairs.
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