Why take an assessment test?
For HR Selection and Development:
- • It’s a reliable and valid method to insure that the best candidates match the job
- • Research shows that people tend to overestimate information on their cv’s, and the interview may be highly influenced by a manager’s prejudices, likes and dislikes without realizing it.
- • Can filter the best available candidates to ensure long term investment
- • Can help identify talent and potential leaders in a group
- • Can help form efficient and cohesive groups in a work setting
- • Can create a more efficient organization
- • Can predict an employee’s work performance
- • Can reduce staff turnover
- • Can show the relatively strong and weak areas within a person to introduce development
For Students:
- • An objective measure of often hidden abilities which can help form a robust foundation for making career decisions
- • Can help identify a student’s interests and skills, while highlighting strengths and weaknesses
- • Allows you to make a scientific and knowledgeable major choice to avoid falling into the trap of trial and error
- • Studies have proved that assessment provide good personality-major match prediction in:
- - College success
- - Earning higher grades
- - Graduating on time
- - Persistence with choice of major through graduation
- - Better satisfied and successful in their career
- • The more interested you are in your major, the more time and effort you put into it and the more confident you feel pursuing it
