We all have taken employment test over the years and you know probably very few of us actually enjoy that experience but none the less that’s what we think about but the reality is that It’s a little bit of bigger picture when you think about it especially in the eyes of the EEOC another people who powers-that-be you think bro working in an organization can be deemed an assessment on the reality is it is mostly test but.
you know all the other usual suspects and the hiring process are part of it too and really the thing that’s most important is hiring company these things are predictors they really provide again as a psychologist I keep going back to the fact that it’s about measurement it’s about taking a construct or an area that allows some onto contribute to being successful in.
the job and effectively measuring that and then understanding how well we’remeasuring so in some sense I like to talk about assess men.t and I’ll talk about a little more in the hiring company evaluation area but if you’re familiar with six sigma methodology of basically you know you design something you implement it you measure and evaluate it and then.
You improve it that’s the model that I really feel like is best for this type of predictive assessment it doesn’t end when you put a test in place you really need to collect data and do what I call closing the loop and that’s .
s really in my mind all hiring company about that how do we close the loop and and really understand the power and accuracy and value of the decisions we make using tools so not getting too ahead of.
Myself so and why why is it important to think about assessment what does it tell us it really tells us it’s about predicting future performance everything that we’re doing is about evaluating someone saying okay what are.
they going to be able to do for us in the future Wiki.com because the reality is when people come to a hiring process hiring company externally in an organization they’re generally an unknown entity you know you don’t know much about them and the whole hiring process is a dialogue between.
The company and the and the prospective applicant where everyone’s trying to uncover more information and you know we’re trying to see through the BS and the.