Is there a remedy to shorten the time required to fill a position without negatively affecting the quality of the recruitment? The answer is yes. Today, almost everything is online, and it is no wonder that online assessments have grown to be strategically very important to organizations in their search for the optimal talent acquisition experience.
Approximately 86% of those surveyed in an Employees Today survey understood that online recruiting is less expensive than almost any other recruiting method. About 90% believe that online recruiting is simple and easy to use. Other surveys suggest that more than 80% of the future workforce prefer online assessments, believing the assessments to be reasonable, accurate, and easy to complete. From a hiring standpoint, the use of online job suitability assessments has continued to grow exponentially over the past few years. State-of-the-art improvements have made screening people at job fairs, promotions, and client office buildings a normal feature.
Benefits of Online Recruitment Assessments
Hire the right level of skill:
Along with increasingly intense competition for careers, selecting the “right” person becomes increasingly essential for a recruiter. Online assessments help employers looking to hire the best person for the job by verifying that they are a good fit for the job and have high potential. Implementing an online talent screening process not only eliminates poor job applicants before the interview, but also helps managers fill positions more quickly with the right people.
Affordable and time saving:
The hiring cost includes the following items: job description writing, advertising, employee referral fees, travel costs incurred by employers and candidates, company recruitment costs, screening and evaluation costs, interview time for hiring managers, administrative support and other incidental expenses. Running recruitment reviews online reduced a substantial area of costs incurred to select top talent. With Internet access, online assessments can be done anywhere, anytime for multiple people. Additionally, today’s candidate tracking dashboards make it easy to keep track of assessment results and other important candidate data.
The key components of a high-quality online assessment
The primary consideration for an online quality assessment process is the reliability (consistency) and validity (precision) of the assessment itself. A quality talent assessment process will generally include an assessment of cognitive abilities, interests / passions, personality, and interpersonal skills (eg, EQ).
– A cognitive ability assessment is included to ensure the candidate has the level of ability necessary to perform the job. It is counterproductive to hire people who have too much or too little cognitive ability for a specific position. Too much skill results in boredom or not feeling challenged enough in the position. Too little skill results in feeling overwhelmed and stressed on the job. The person feels stretched or overloaded on the role. Both lead to rotation.
– Personality tests are designed to understand the traits and behaviors of job seekers, especially in a work setting or work context. More and more organizations have used the personality profile as an objective way to assess suitability for employment, training needs and development needs. With an increase in the adoption of screening technology to facilitate good hiring decisions, online talent reviews will continue to flourish as they serve a critical need for employers.
