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Job Simulation vs Job Skills Assessment Test

Vervoe

When it comes to sourcing candidate evaluation software, too many recruiters think that a job simulation and a job skills assessment test are the same things. Thankfully, a little bit of research online will usually deliver one of two results as an alternative: a job simulation, or a job skills assessment test.

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Best Practices: Using a Personality Assessment to Place Co-op Students

Plum.io

I realized the importance of using a pre-employment assessment to filter through the applicants. Pre-employment assessments have grown in popularity recently. Now, however, organizations can access a quality assessment to assess applicant’s at all levels of an organization – college co-op students too!

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Introducing anonymized screening: Encourage inclusivity

Workable

Stay tuned for more to come in 2021, including customizable post-application surveys, enhanced reporting and native cognitive and personality assessments. Workable helps companies in 100+ countries create a more inclusive hiring practice with diverse candidate sourcing, anonymized screening and structured interviewing.

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Psychometric Testing vs Job Simulations

Vervoe

While psychometric testing companies do their best to convince recruiters that cognitive assessments are a must, are job simulations the modern alternative? In fact, it’s highly likely that you’ve taken an online psychometric test without even realizing it, such as the highly polarizing Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test.

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Why Shell Pushes Hard on Soft Skills — and How It’s Assessing Them

Linkedin Talent Blog

Nearly all (91%) of the talent professionals surveyed for LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends 2019 report said that soft skills are very important to the future of recruiting, yet more than half (57%) also said they struggle to assess them accurately. That’s where assessments come in.

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4 Things To Look Out For When Using A Personality Assessment

Plum.io

What’s Wrong With Using A Personality Assessment? The great news is that use of a personality assessment in the hiring process is growing in adoption. But what’s not so great is how to determine which assessment to invest in to help build your company. The test should assess for multiple types of intelligence.

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Workable Assessments: The science behind it all

Workable

Due to their abstract nature, personalities and cognitive abilities are not as easy to assess as, say, a candidate’s coding skills or the ability to close a lucrative sales deal. Since you’re digitally transforming your entire recruitment process, it makes sense that you can and should digitize your assessments as well.