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Design Pre-Employment Assessments That Improve Hiring Success

Go beyond the interview to better assess for competencies specific to the organization’s culture and unique needs.

  • The cost of making a bad hire is high, even for entry-level positions.
  • Lack of skilled interviewing is intensified by the fact that over half of job applicants don’t meet the basic requirements of the role.
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Executive Summary

Critical Insight

  • Increasing the quality of pre-employment assessments beyond an interview improves objectivity and the quality of hiring decisions. Designing them in-house allows for greater alignment with the organization's unique needs.

Impact & Result

  • Create a pre-employment assessment to accompany an interview so that you can better assess the on-the-job competencies of your candidates.
  • Create a scoring rubric for the assessment to improve hires' objectivity and mitigate bias.
  • Test the assessment to ensure that it is valid and reliable before integrating the assessment into your talent acquisition process.

Research & Tools

2. Design your in-house assessments

Choose an assessment method to develop and create scoring for the assessment.

3. Ensure assessments are valid and reliable

Test the assessment design for alignment and bias.

4. Create an action plan for implementation

Integrate the assessment into the TA process.

Workshop

Engage McLean & Company facilitators to lead your team through the Design Pre-Employment Assessments That Improve Hiring Success online workshop.

Need to accelerate your HR project?

Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.

Workshops offer a structured 3-5 day session designed to help HR teams and organizations address specific challenges and implement HR best practices.

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