Posted by EmployTest - on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 @ 11:05 AM
The staff here at EmployTest sincerely hope that you use our pre-employment assessments to gauge the skills, knowledge, and personalities of your job applicants.
But, if you're not able to use our employment skills tests, then by all means follow these helpful (and humorous) "10 Signs Not to Hire the Person You're Interviewing", as brought to you by the staff at Entrepreneur.com.
You can find the list here.
Posted by EmployTest - on Wed, May 13, 2009 @ 03:01 PM
"Lots of research shows that people are very optimistic in their self-assessments. They believe that they are much better than they are."
"90% of people believe that they are in the top 10% of their organization."
--Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, co-author of the Harvard Business Review article "The Definitive Guide to Recruitment".
It's noteworthy that people (read: job applicants) are not intentionally misleading anyone (read: hiring managers). It's just that they (we) are unable to objectively measure their own skills and tendencies. During an interview process, the job candidate is trying to promote their own skill set (perhaps inaccurately) while trying to guess what skills the employer needs. It's natural that there might be some discrepancies in what the candidate says they can do and what the position requires. A toolkit of pre-employment assessments might help both parties (job candidate and hiring manager) determine if the job is a good fit for both.