You’ve likely heard and read a lot of propaganda about the
virtues of pre-employment tests. But you probably haven’t read
about the following benefit:

What I offer this week is an observation I have had with clients
using our services and pre-employment tests for three or more
years. When we first introduced pre-employment tests into their
hiring process, a considerable number of top candidates were
being rejected. On the one hand, this was good news the
assessments were doing their job, exposing traits or skills of
candidates that didn’t fit the job, team or company culture. On
the other hand, our clients wondered if we were going to reject
all their candidates and just run up a bill for more
pre-employment tests.

Fortunately, they trusted us enough to move forward and
eventually we confirmed a candidate who met their job fit
criteria.

Now let’s turn the clock forward to the present time
pre-employment tests. Our client presents two candidates. I take
a quick peek at the results and find the behavioral styles,
business motivators, personality traits and cognitive abilities
nearly identical. At this point the interviews and reference
checks can focus on the subtle personality and attitude
differences, resulting in a very predictive screen.

This client’s experience is not alone. Based on what our clients
learn from the pre-employment tests of previous job candidates,
they use that knowledge to improve screening and interviewing of
future candidates. The result is that poor fits are eliminated
earlier and the quality of the final candidates improves
dramatically.

One client summed it up this way: “We used to hope to identify
one candidate who met our criteria. Too often we had to
compromise our standards to fill a vacancy. Today, even in this
tight job market, we find our screening process so good thanks
to the pre-employment tests that we end up with two or three
candidates we’d hire. Any one of these candidates we would have
readily hired in the past.”

If you would like to screen candidates more accurately with less
effort and improve the quality of candidates presented for
interviews, call Success Performance Solutions at 800.803.4303
to get pre-employment tests today!


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Ira S. Wolfe founded Success Performance Solutions, a provider of personality testing, background checking, and applicant processing systems. Vist www.super-solutions.com to improve your hiring success and retention now!