Pre-Employment Tests to Improve the Quality Of Candidates
You’ve likely heard and read a lot of propaganda about the virtues of pre-employment tests. But you probably haven’t read about the following benefit:
What I offer this week is an observation I have had with clients using our services and pre-employment tests for three or more years. When we first introduced pre-employment tests into their hiring process, a considerable number of top candidates were being rejected. On the one hand, this was good news the assessments were doing their job, exposing traits or skills of candidates that didn’t fit the job, team or company culture. On the other hand, our clients wondered if we were going to reject all their candidates and just run up a bill for more pre-employment tests.
Fortunately, they trusted us enough to move forward and eventually we confirmed a candidate who met their job fit criteria.
Now let’s turn the clock forward to the present time pre-employment tests. Our client presents two candidates. I take a quick peek at the results and find the behavioral styles, business motivators, personality traits and cognitive abilities nearly identical. At this point the interviews and reference checks can focus on the subtle personality and attitude differences, resulting in a very predictive screen.
This client’s experience is not alone. Based on what our clients learn from the pre-employment tests of previous job candidates, they use that knowledge to improve screening and interviewing of future candidates. The result is that poor fits are eliminated earlier and the quality of the final candidates improves dramatically.
One client summed it up this way: “We used to hope to identify one candidate who met our criteria. Too often we had to compromise our standards to fill a vacancy. Today, even in this tight job market, we find our screening process so good thanks to the pre-employment tests that we end up with two or three candidates we’d hire. Any one of these candidates we would have readily hired in the past.”
If you would like to screen candidates more accurately with less effort and improve the quality of candidates presented for interviews, call Success Performance Solutions at 800.803.4303 to get pre-employment tests today!
About the Author
Ira S. Wolfe <iwolfe@super-solutions.com> founded Success Performance Solutions, a provider of personality testing, background checking, and applicant processing systems. Vist www.super-solutions.com to improve your hiring success and retention now!
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