Posted in : New Career
Assessments and Hiring Pt II
By Robert Bono
Jan 20, 2008 - 2:52:15 PM

Time is Money

Face it – your time is worth good money. If your pipes break, you probably don’t try to save money by fixing them yourself – you call a plumber, because you don’t have the time or confidence to ensure that the work was done right; recruiting is no different.

Why Assessment Tools Save Time & Money

An assessment can give you, in minutes, information that might have taken you weeks or months to accumulate on your own. You can take supreme confidence in the results, knowing that the measurements used to assess your candidate are used to assess thousands, potentially millions of others, allowing you to benchmark your candidate against industry standards. What’s more, those results are used by test designers to continually refine and improve the assessment process.

Avoid Large Candidate Pools

Major companies in the U.S and UK, already understand that an excessively large candidate pool lowers the bottom line and makes hiring more difficult. In fact, most retail chains now accept applications online only, requiring that each applicant complete a customized personality inventory along with their application.

Whether you’re filling hundreds of open positions or just one important seat, you’ll find assessment tools an indispensable part of the modern recruiting process. The time you’ll save makes these kinds of tools an attractive option, and the administrative costs are typically offset by the value of increased efficiency.

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