Benefits of Objective Assessment

A powerful way of ensuring the best candidates are selected is by assessing their ability using a variety of objective assessment tools.

Key benefits of objective assessment:

• Improves the efficiency of a hiring process
  - Identifying the most unsuitable candidates early on in the hiring process means that less time and money is spent on them
  - Formally identifying and measuring the competencies required for a job, in order to get a closer fit, permits the hiring manager to be more efficient and productive
• Permits more informed recruitment decisions to be made by providing additional information about a candidate
  - It’s proven to work better than the interview alone meaning less emphasis is placed on the skill of the interviewer (who may not be a recruitment specialist).
  - Provides objective information permitting objective and defensible decisions to be made
• Enables you to look beyond just hard skills
  - Enables an individual’s potential to be gauged rather than just skills that have been acquired retrospectively
  - Provides information concerning the way in which someone goes about their daily job which can be just as important as hard skills
• Provides for beyond the candidate selection
  - Equips the line manager and HR with lots of information about the candidate in terms of their likely strengths and weaknesses. This means that when they become an employee they can be managed more effectively
  - Is seen by candidates as a fair and open way of recruiting people which can look good for the company, especially if the process is managed online

Key benefits of SHL assessment tools:

• SHL ability assessment tools are tried and tested in over 40 countries in more than 5,500 organisations
• SHL assessments are available for all levels of work, from Directors and senior managers to semi-skilled workers
• SHL assessments are designed purely for the world of work, targeted at business needs
• SHL assessments are designed with the line manager in mind, providing practical, non-jargon orientated reports so that at-a-glance they can see where someone’s strengths and weaknesses might lie

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See also

• Personality assessment – looks at work styles and behaviour - how candidates fit with certain work environments, how they work with others, and how they will cope with change.
• Read how Kimberly-Clark experiences major cost savings through assessment.
• Read how psychometric assessment helps Krispy Kreme reduce bad hires by 50%.