A bad hire can cost your organization thousands in revenue. The losses come in many shapes and forms, including reduced output, low teamwork, higher training needs, workplace accidents, and regular turnovers, among other costs.
You can reduce the chances of a bad hire with psychometric assessments. They provide deeper insights into an applicant’s qualifications beyond what a resume or interview can offer. These tests evaluate attributes, such as cognitive abilities and personality type to help you find the best candidate match for a role.
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What Is a Psychometric Test in Hiring?
Psychometric assessments are a set of tests that evaluate a candidate’s psychological and personality suitability for a role. To do this, screening tools use expert-designed scientific tests to predict how well an applicant is likely to perform at their job and fit into an organization’s culture.
These recruitment assessments can generally be grouped into two based on the traits they assess:
- Cognitive and aptitude psychometric tests: Organizations use this group of assessments to evaluate a candidate’s mental capability for the needs of a particular job. Examples of cognitive tests are \ numerical problem solving, verbal reasoning, and critical thinking.
- Behavioral and personality psychometric tests: These are often a set of questions which, depending on a candidate’s answers, can predict how well they’re likely to fit in the company’s culture. They can test habits such as motivation, personal development, leadership traits, and communication skills.
Why Is Psychometric Testing Important for Recruiters?
This is what a recruiter’s inbox typically looks like after posting a vacant position:
Hundreds of applications, some from qualified candidates, some unqualified, some from bots, others drafted by machines with zero human touch, and so on. With the help of an applicant tracking system (ATS), you may be able to screen a few resumes out.
But with professional resume writing services and artificial intelligence, most applicants can easily match their CVs to job descriptions now. This still leaves you with a lot of applications to further filter.
This is where pre employment assessments such as psychometric tests come in. They provide an objective evaluation of a candidate’s hard and soft skills, allowing recruiters to narrow down a talent pool to qualifications beyond a resume.
Other key benefits of psychometric tests in hiring include:
- Making data-driven hiring decisions: With clear and measurable insights from psychometric assessments data, you’re likely to make better hiring decisions. Data-driven recruitment has many benefits over traditional methods, including enhancing quality of hires and optimizing recruitment costs
- Reducing hiring bias: Unlike resumes and interviews, psychometric tests are standardized and objective. This means every candidate gets the same set of questions and the tools provide unbiased results free from personal opinions.
- Optimizing hiring costs: Psychometric tests can reduce recruitment budgets over time by providing more qualified hires and less turnovers. Using psychometric tools also eliminates manual filtering, saving the recruiter’s time spent on screening.
Psychometric Testing With Seargent Assessment Gorilla
Assessment Gorilla is our all-in-one recruitment testing tool with over 3000 tests covering different roles, industries, and evaluations.
We thoroughly test our psychometric assessments for validity in ensuring you’re measuring the right attributes. We also check for reliability so that we’re delivering consistent results. Key features in Assessment Gorilla are:
- Variety of standardized scientific tests: Assessment Gorilla customizes the right psychometric test for you whether you’re assessing for entry-level roles, advanced work placements or internships, in client-facing or technical roles.
- Advanced proctoring tools: We have advanced proctoring features that prevent cheating and ensure you’re getting honest responses from candidates.
- Positive candidate experience: If your hiring process has high candidate satisfaction, you’re likely to have a positive brand reputation as an employer and employees are likely to work with you for long. Sergeant Assessment Gorilla has a 94% candidate satisfaction rate.
- Comprehensive and data-driven reports: With Assessment Gorilla’s scoring reports for a candidate’s results, you have actionable insights for a faster and data-driven hiring process.
Hire Smarter and Faster With Assessment Gorilla by Seargent Solutions
Your employees drive your organization forward and without the right fit, your growth will be slower or non-existent. Find suitable candidates for your role and organizational culture faster by gathering more information about an applicant’s capability with psychometric assessments.
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