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Psychometric Test Proves To Be Helpful

Psychometric tests are an essential part of the recruitment process in organizations today. They provide important and objective data that is useful in justifying hiring decisions, improve the company’s brand, provide measurable results and help in molding HR concepts and strategies.

What Do They Measure?

There are thousands of psychometric testing tools available either as off-the-shelf products or bespoke solutions customized to your organization’s unique needs. Many of them are used as initial screening tools, because today online psychometric tests allow large numbers of candidates across geographies to be simultaneously tested. The results can be swiftly and accurately compiled and the next level of the recruitment process can begin.

Broadly speaking, psychometric assessment is undertaken to measure:

• Suitability for the role
• Behavior
• Leadership potential
• Team work
• Cognitive traits
• Personality aspects in relevance to the proposed role
• Developmental needs
• Ethics and values
• Competency
• Special requirements like numerical/verbal/spatial reasoning
• Critical thinking
• Logical thinking

Benefits of Using Psychometric Tests

• Psychometric tests confer a multitude of benefits on both organizations and employees. In terms of benefits to the organization, these tests are useful in many ways.
• Enhance job performance: Testing ensures that the right candidate is selected for the job. Certain tests like cognitive ability and personality trait tests are great predictors of job performance. They also provide valid predictors of other organizational variables like training/education success, knowledge/skills, compatibility with organizational values etc.
• Discover: Hidden traits, unexplored areas of interest, etc and match them to the company’s requirements.
• Objectivity: Using psychometric tests provides objective, verifiable and justifiable data so that organizations can make the right hiring decisions. Selection is based purely on fair and standardized methods rather than traditional methods which could be subjective and unreliable.
• Cost-effectiveness: The return on investment is high, when compared to the costs of hiring the wrong candidate. Selecting high-performers benefit the organization.
• Convenience: In high-volume recruitments, testing thousands of candidates can be cumbersome. With on-line psychometric tests, results are available immediately and decision-making is faster.
• Personnel and career-related evaluations: Strategic planning, team-building, succession-planning, restructuring, hiring, promotions, rewards, assessments etc. can be planned and executed more efficiently.
• Enhanced Organizational Performance: Testing and actioning on the basis of tests helps employee retention, reduces cost-per-hire, boosts motivation, reduces absenteeism and dis-satisfaction, better management-staff relationships and increases job satisfaction. All these ultimately contribute to the company’s growth and well-being.

From an employee’s perspective, psychometric tests help them to:

• Make informed decisions about career choices
• Land a job that meets their aspirations
• Provides psychological and social rewards
• Maintain work-life balance
• Avoid jobs that will not be suitable
• Get real insights into their SWOT
• Understand their own leadership potential and preferred working styles
• Gain self-awareness
• Respect the organization’s HR policies
• Get objective feedback
• Improve personal and team efficiency
• Improve performance at any stage in their careers
• Psychometric Testing Can Be A Complementary Tool

Traditional methods like personal interviews, written tests, performance appraisal by peers, 360-degree evaluation, etc. can be used in conjunction with psychometric tests to create an intensive and extensive testing program to ensure the health, vision and growth of the organization.

Information Shared By Mettl Online Test Platform.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Luke .