Online Assessments – Faster, Smarter and Seamless

From the process of attracting the talent to signing an employment agreement with the best hire is a time consuming process for HR professionals. Is there a solution to shorten the time without any negative impact on the quality of recruitment? The answer is yes. Today everything being online, it’s perhaps not surprising that online assessment processes have become strategically important for organisations in their quest for optimum talent acquisition.

Online Assessment Process

A recent survey conducted by Personnel today found that 86% of respondents felt that online recruitment is more cost effective than most other recruitment methods, while 40% strongly agreed with this statement. More than 90% felt that online recruitment is easy to use, while only 9% slightly disagreed with this.

Findings from AssessPeople’s Future Workforce Survey reinforce this trend in India where more than 80% of the future workforce prefers online assessments since they believe it’s fair, accurate and seamless.

From a recruitment perspective, the use of online assessment process has grown exponentially over the last few years. Cutting-edge innovations have made assessment of candidates at job fairs, campaigns and client offices a regular feature.

Benefits of an online assessment process

Hire the right talent – With the intensifying competition for jobs, hiring the ‘right’ person becomes more and more crucial for a recruiter. Online assessment processes aid recruiters hire the best person for a job by checking for job potential and disposition. Adopting an online assessment process not only weeds sub-standard applicants prior to the interview but also helps to fill positions more quickly with the right individuals.

Cost effective and time saving

The cost per hire includes the following elements: write a job description, advertise, agency fee, bonus for employee referral, travel costs incurred by recruiters and applicants, company recruiter cost, testing, reference checking, administrative support and other incidental expenses. Implementation of online assessment processes cut a major part of the costs incurred for hiring. With internet access, online assessment can be conducted anywhere, at any time for multiple candidates. Also, online dashboards that are offered today are safe and easy to track test results and participant data.

The Key elements of an online assessment process

The most important element of good online assessment process is the assessment itself. An online process can include assessment of aptitude and personality and can typically be used for selection and development of talent.

• An Aptitude assessment is found to be more accurate than interviews for determining a candidate’s potential to do a job well. Many organisations use aptitude tests as a screening tool to hire the right talent thus improving the quality of their hiring process.

• Personality tests are designed to understand traits and behaviour of applicants, especially in a work context, thus avoiding value judgments such as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. More and more organisations have adopted Personality Profiling as on objective measure of employment suitability, identification of training needs and development areas as also for promotions and succession planning.

With more and more companies embracing technology to make fair talent decisions, online assessment processes are here to stay.

AssessPeople’s online assessment processes help companies screen, select and develop potential at different stages in the employee life cycle and help in putting in place robust talent management practices. For more information, log on to: www.assesspeople.com

Stella Jones is a HR and helps companies in hiring right candidate for the right position. Her vast experienced in Human Resource helps to develop robust Talent Management practices and enhances Workforce Growth Solutions.

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