Why use psychometric assessments?
Incorporating a psychometric assessment into your organization’s recruitment and selection process has multiple benefits. It can maximize your chance of hiring an employee who has the knowledge, skills, abilities (and core functional interests) to perform their role effectively and remain with your organization for the long term.
Moreover, psychometric assessments can extract valuable insights into a candidate. These include behavioural traits, leadership aptitude, core interests, coaching and training preferences, and more. This information can be used after hiring to assist with departmental/team allocation, training delivery, and determining how the employee best responds to feedback.
How should psychometric assessments fit into the selection process?
Think of psychometric assessments as a complementary or supportive role in the overall selection process.
Although legitimate psychometric assessments are scientifically based, they can be misused and can introduce bias if there isn’t a good understanding of what the assessment is meant to measure. The Ontario Human Rights Commission warns that psychometric assessments can create potential human rights violations if they are not used carefully by employers. It is crucial that employers use a credible psychometric assessment that has been thoroughly tested to ensure valid and reliable results. Further, the results of a psychometric assessment, in isolation, should not be used as a means of disqualifying a candidate.
3 Ways to Enhance Your Recruitment and Selection Process
There are many moving parts when it comes to hiring the right employee, and psychometric assessments can help to make that process more efficient. Here are three benefits we see from clients who incorporate these assessments into their hiring process:
Make decisions objectively: The most important enhancement is that these tests help you make decisions based on data and standardized results instead of relying solely on gut-feelings. This increases the chances of hiring the right person for the job for objective reasons that align with your HR strategy, not subjective assumptions.
Save time and money: Understanding a candidate’s cognitive and behavioral traits and interests leads to better allocation of people and maximizes the effectiveness of every employee. It also contributes to higher retention rates.
Identify Leadership Potential – Using assessments like the Leadership Profile can give you a better idea of a candidate’s leadership capabilities and help you gauge how they would thrive in a leadership role.
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