Hiring Assessments Are in Your Best Interests Too

Just like you must pass a driving test before you are allowed to get behind the wheel, many companies like you to pass various personality and skills assessments before they trust you as an employee.

The interviewing process can be very lengthy and the longer it drags out, the more discouraging it can be. You leapt over the first hurdles…the face-to-face interviews with multiple managers went fine. Now they want you to take two skill tests. They want to assess your cultural fit and determine how well you create presentations. What is this all about?

Training needs assessment services maintain that such skill tests are worthwhile—for both the hiring company and for the job candidate. The hiring company needs to confirm that the skills you claim to possess (and that may well have been part of your previous job) are actually at the level they need for you to perform successfully. From the company’s point of view, self-reporting is not enough for hiring purposes; they want objective confirmation.

But the tests are really in your best interests too. It is far better to discover beforehand that you do not have the skill level required or that you are not a good cultural fit. You don’t want to commit to a job that does not suit you or your abilities.