Can individuals buy our Employment Tests? No way, no how....
Posted by EmployTest - on Tue, Jun 01, 2010 @ 08:33 AM
Some of our comrades in the employment testing industry have decided to have their cake and eat it too. They decided that it makes good business sense to allow individuals to purchase their tests, on their own, to prepare (or practice) before they go on a job interview.
Well, allow us to politely disagree. We do not, will not, allow individuals that are seeking jobs to purchase tests from us. And believe me, we get plenty of requests to do just that. Past research has shown that many of our website visitors are in fact not hiring managers. Instead they are job seekers looking to learn more about how our testing works in order to "ace" the pre-employment tests.
And we certainly wish those folks well. We too want them to succeed on the tests but we do not provide them with test samples nor do we offer to sell them "practice" tests. And these tests are often not really practice tests--they can be the same exact pre-employment tests that are being used by hiring managers to measure job skills and knowledge.
For example, if you're selling them the practice Excel test in the morning, and then that afternoon they take an Excel test administered by the interviewer, it's highly likely that they will perform better because of these practice tests.
We value the money our clients have invested in our testing system and don't want to minimize that by selling practice tests to individuals. Is it unethical? Well, we wouldn't go that far but definitely questionable. When you use our employment tests, you'll have the confidence that your applicant wasn't practicing on the same test 30 minutes ago.
Would you like a sample of our pre-employment tests? Just visit Try a Test to get started!