If you’re looking to quantify your approach to candidate assessment, customising Skills Tests is an essential piece of the puzzle. A Skills Test allows you to invite candidates at scale to show you that they know how to do the job.
As well as text, you can include videos, audio, and imagery to pose scenarios and ask questions that only a qualified candidate would be able to answer. You can take the results from Skills Tests and include them alongside the results from Aptitude Tests and Personality Tests, and develop a bank of data on a candidate to balance against their CV and interview performance.
You could ask candidates to identify key details from audio-visual media, then ask them to apply that key information by selecting the most appropriate course of action in a specific work scenario. You could also include open questions to allow them to express more complicated ideas and answers, solve problems, and as a failsafe to make sure they haven’t guessed any of the multiple choice questions.
The format could be adapted to check someone had the required mathematical skills, the necessary reading and writing skills, or even highly technical knowledge and theory pertaining to coding, science, music, or anything else candidates might need.
The result for your business of a well-crafted Skills Test is that you’ll be able to bring only the strongest candidates to interview, and make the right hiring decision faster.