Posted by EmployTest - on Tue, May 12, 2009 @ 09:45 AM
Need an Excel test? You are not alone....The most frequent reason people find our website is because they are searching for our Microsoft Excel skills testing. Usually it's to be used pre-employment testing but it can also be used for pre-training assessments.
Visitors want to know what topics are covered in this Excel test (of course, they can always sample it here). The 35 questions in the Standard Excel test cover these skill levels in roughly equal proportion: Beginner, Intermediate, & Advanced. Here are a few topics that are included:
-Formatting (Borders, Alignment, AutoFit)
-Editing (Undo, Copy, Cut, Paste)
-File Management (Save, New Template)
-Tools & Automation (Zoom, Range Name, Protect)
-Analysis (Charts, Functions, AutoFilter, Sort)
Some of these questions might be easy to anyone familiar with a Microsoft Office program. Yet as the questions progress into Intermediate and Advanced skill levels, you understand why this Excel test is our most frequently used employment test. Do those questions sound too easy for your situation We also have an Advanced version, which is finely tuned for just those Power Users. Want to see it in action or learn more? We're proud to show it off as it is the most realistic Excel skills test on the market.
Posted by EmployTest - on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 @ 01:53 PM
Microsoft Excel, the most collectively frustrating software program in the world. Millions are challenged by it daily. Not to say that there aren't more difficult programs to learn. Because there certainly are. But Microsoft Excel is the program, across the globe, that confounds the greatest majority. And because it's so critical to office staff, it's the one program about which applicants will most often misrepresent their skills.
Why is that? Maybe because job applicants think they can get away with such deception. They often can because the Hiring Manager often does not have the proper Excel skills on their own to distinguish Excel mastery from overstated skills. And they shouldn't have necessarily have those skills, unless it's part of their job. Not when there are Microsoft Excel tests that help determine precisely what the applicant knows.
Searching for Excel tests is the number one reason (by far) people find our website and sign up for our employment testing program. Just shows how hard it is to determine those skills by simply asking questions. You are not alone, my friend. Others that are hiring are in the same boat as you. It's virtually impossible for an interviewer to determine, just by verbally questioning them, what an applicant knows about Excel. It can't consistently be done.
Which leads us to the question: How would you, as the Human Resource Professional/Vice President/Business Owner, score on an Excel test?
The answer is....it doesn't really matter. Your job may or may not require those skills. So you may not need to know it at all. And you will be smart enough to use a Microsoft Excel test that will independently assess each applicant's skills, without you having to "dance" with the applicant to figure out what they know.