When it comes to recruiting, some things will never change. HR professionals are constantly looking for new talent, making connections, and hunting for referrals from current employees, interview candidates, and just about anyone else. After all, recruiting has always been about building relationships.
However, in an increasingly digital age, there are a number of tools available to recruiters. These solutions have significantly changed the business of finding qualified candidates for a position.
While relationships are essential, tools like pre-employment assessment testing have become more vital. Assessments help weigh the aptitude of candidates and provide staffing firms with the detailed information they need to ensure a candidate’s overall suitability, also known as JobFit. JobFit increases the probability the candidate will succeed in the placement, which means more revenue and placements for the staffing firm.
Pre-Employment Skills Testing
On average, every new job post receives about 250 applications, which means that recruiters need to find ways to evaluate applicants as quickly as possible. Sorting through applications and resumes is time-consuming. Some experts believe that almost 40% of job seekers lie on their resumes, fudging information about their education level or previous work experience.
Pre-employment assessment tests from eSkill help staffing firms with both of these problems. Countless clients, like Belay, cut their time to hire by 50%. Unlike resumes, skills tests require applicants to demonstrate their skills, counteracting any misinformation they may have supplied in their application.
These results can help you to quickly eliminate candidates who do not possess the skills they would need to have a good JobFit. Because eSkill integrates with almost every kind of ATS software on the market, you can easily add testing to your application process. This means you will have each candidate’s test results before you have to sort through their resumes, saving you the time and expense of reviewing materials for poor candidates.
Customize Your Pre-Employment Assessment Tests for Every Job Post
Because every job description is different, you might need to adjust your pre-employment skills testing to accurately gauge the skills required. With eSkill, it is quick and easy to tailor your skills tests for every position.
In addition to the industry-leading library of more than 800 pre-made tests organized by job and subject, eSkill has made it easy to create your own customized tests to more closely fit your needs.
There are two ways to customize your tests. First, you can combine multiple job or subject tests into a single assessment tool to ensure you cover all of the skills you need to evaluate. For example, you can combine soft skills tests like Attention to Detail with hard skills testing, like Financial Analysis or Web Analytics.
The other option is to select questions from eSkill’s huge bank of validated questions, which lets you fully customize your pre-employment assessment testing to meet your needs. You can choose as many questions as you like or upload your own created material using eSkill’s Author — including video questions and workspace simulations.
Video questions are a handy tool. Candidate responses can give you better insight into their personality and how well they handle verbal communication. Even better, you can use video questions to verify a candidate’s identity, making it harder for anyone to commit fraud.
The Hard Data You Need to Improve Placement Rates
Adding skills testing to your recruiting process can help you improve your success with placements in a number of ways. With quantified data on each applicant, you can more effectively judge candidates based on their skills and abilities, rather than how they may present themselves in a resume or an interview. When you identify knowledge or skills gaps, you eliminate unsuitable candidates too.
Another important impact of skills testing is fighting unconscious bias. Increasing workplace diversity and equity are some of the most important trends in recruiting. It is imperative that HR professionals do whatever they can to help companies meet these goals during the recruiting process. Skills testing helps to level the playing field by treating all applicants the same. eSkill has a perfect record when it comes to compliance with these core areas.
Finally, eSkill’s intuitive dashboard makes it easy to compare candidate results at a glance. You can see who has taken the test, how long it took for each candidate to complete each test, and overall scores, along with detailed breakdowns of each candidate’s individual results. This information can also be used to produce professional reports whenever the information needs to be shared with managers, administrators, or boards.
The eSkill Talent Assessment Platform offers recruiters the opportunity to improve their performance by cutting placement time and improving JobFit. With a wide range of options to customize tests to your needs, you can effectively use skills tests to take your placement rates to the next level.
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