Custom skill assessments
What does a percentage score from a multiple-choice test tell you about a prospective employee’s software skills or relevant business acumen? Not much.
That’s why our software skill assessments are customized in a unique way. We care about how the applicant actually uses the software and our clients care about this too. So our tests are designed to evaluate how effectively and consistently the person actually utilizes the tools of the software. We routinely offer these custom skill assessments in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and mail merge for Office 2003 and Office 2007.
But that’s not all!
Sometimes we have a client company whose skill needs for a particular opening are distinct. That’s where we come in. We meet with the client to discuss what skill combinations we need to measure and how best to assess these. And then we create a custom test for use in screening our applicants for that position at that company.
- A chemical distribution company needed a math test for its prospective employees to judge their ease in hand-calculating addition, subtraction, and multiplication of percentages for combining chemicals in their warehouse. We created a story-based test that imitated the kinds of calculations needed daily in the warehouse.
- A paper processing business planned to hire dock workers, but needed to judge their familiarity with loading and unloading using a forklift. We learned the basic physics of forklift operation in order to create a new written test based upon common workplace scenarios.
- A direct-mail marketing firm routinely needs for their temporaries to create mail merges using Word, Excel, and Outlook. But this includes an extra step of setting delivery-requests and converting Word documents to read-only Adobe Acrobat files. So our standard mail merge test wasn’t sufficient. We designed a multi-step test using all of these softwares to mimic their actual working procedures. It was worth the investment of staff time for our skilled temporaries to have a shorter learning curve when they start that assignment.
Custom skill assessments. Just one of the many ways that we bring the personal touch to staffing!