Job Fit Assessments Benefits: Why are they growing in popularity with employers?

Psychometric testing plays an important role in complementing the standard recruitment process most companies follow.  These tests don’t just sit alongside the CV, interview, and reference checking, they dig deeper into the candidate’s skills and personality.  In short, they help employers understand how a candidate will do their job, something that’s very difficult to determine from CV’s, and face-to-face interviews alone.

CV’s tell an employer if a candidate has the necessary qualification and/or experience for a role,  interviews tell employers if the candidate looks like the right fit for the company and can test the more obvious aspects the candidates personality,  reference checks (if done well) confirm the employer’s gut feel and what the candidate has told them about their work experience.  What is often missed through this process is how the candidate performs their work, are they obsessed with details, perfectionists, poor collaborators, disorganised, lack confidence interacting with people? 

Job fit assessments test a range of attributes from a candidate’s skills with words, numbers, shapes, and personality to paint an overall picture of the candidate and ultimately their suitability for the role they have applied for.  These tests make the hiring process more complete, and they significantly reduce the risk of bad hires.

The popularity of using these tests is growing to counter the use of AI to produce impressive-sounding CV’s, and to reduce turnover from poor quality hires. Psychometric testing can help speed up the hiring process without sacrificing quality.

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