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3 Steps to Take Before Pre-Employment Testing

  

  

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You've plowed through all of the candidates and now you're ready to test those fabulous finalists.  Before jumping into the testing process, here are three things to do to make sure your pre-employment testing process will provide the results you need.

1.  Remember the job description?  Take some time to review it. (You do have a job description, don't you?)   Make sure that you've identified the Key Success Factors that will determine whether or not this new hire will be successful in their new position.  Now rank these success factors so that you will know which is the most important for the job.

2.  Based on those Key Success Factors, select the appropriate pre-employment tests and administer them to yourself and others within the firm so you can be familiar with the topics covered.  You'd might be surprised at how often this step is not taken with a new employment testing system.

3.  Develop some type of scoring methodology.  What will you consider as a good score?  Ask us for scoring norms for the desired tests and we will provide them if available.  It's easy to revert back to the school grading mentality and think that a good score has to be above 80% or 90%.  That may not be the case.  Tests can have different scoring processes and the norms might not be what you think.  

And finally remember that tests are only one part of the selection decision.  Many other factors will help predict if this person is your next rock star or just a one hit wonder passing through.