Posted by EmployTest - on Wed, Jun 03, 2009 @ 03:26 PM
The Wall Street Journal posted an article yesterday discussing various extreme examples of interview processes. Read about it here.
For some of you, the assignments for the applicants, as described in the article, (unpaid work, brainstorming) might seem mild in comparison to what you already do. For others, the article suggests some unimagineable tasks ("come dressed in fancy evening wear suitable for entertaining wealthy clients").
Makes your pre-employment testing seem mild in comparison, right?
And that's the point. You want the selection process to give enough information about the job candidates to allow you to make an informed decision. And often (but not always) that includes the use of employment testing. But you have to balance your needs with the needs of the applicant. That is, their need not to have an overbearing and obtrusive interview process ("no ma'am, you shouldn't give 15 different Microsoft Office tests to each applicant").
With so much extraordinary talent in job market today, the last thing you need is for the good applicants, your future superstars, to be scared away by your company's selection process.