I am
often asked by recruiters and employers about the need of using pre-employment
testing. While I have found pre-employment tests to be beneficial in helping to
screen and select the best candidates for jobs, they are not always the only
thing to be considered while selecting a candidate. Let go step by step on understanding
this.
What are pre-employment tests?
Pre-employment
tests are used to screen job applicants and can include testing of cognitive
abilities, knowledge, work skills, personality, emotional intelligence, language
proficiency, and sometimes even integrity. Companies use online testing to find the
candidates most likely to successfully fill the open positions and to screen
out those who are unqualified.
Why are they used?
By helping companies and
recruiters identify the candidates most likely to perform well on the job,
pre-employment testing can lead to additional company benefits, such as saving
time and cost in the selection process.
What are the key issues in
using pre-employment tests?
While there can be vast
benefits gained from using testing in the employee selection process, there are
potential issues companies need to understand prior to implementing any tests.
The first issue is
validity; whether or not the test measures the specific criterion it is
supposed to measure. For the test to be valid a good job profile should be used
by the test administrator.
The second issue is
reliability, the consistency with which a test measures a skill. “For a test to
be reliable, an individual’s score should be about the same every time the
individual takes it (allowing for the effects of practice)”. If someone takes
the test on one day and scores low, then takes the test a week later and
receives a high score, the test is probably not very reliable. This would mean,
the test administrator needs to have a large pool of questions with varied
difficulty levels. The testing tool should be computer adaptive where in the
difficulty level of questions are changed based on response of candidate. This
will ensure a reliable score every time.
Shall I use the pre-employment
tests?
My
suggestion will be “Yes”. But don’t fully depend on the test.
Employers
can increase the likelihood of hiring high-quality candidates by using
pre-employment tests to help screen the
best candidates for jobs. Administered correctly, pre-employment testing can
help companies save time and cost in the selection process.
A final
call should be taken on screened candidates by using a more personal one on one
interview approach.
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