Candidate Screening

Most Companies set up a process to interview job seekers. Often the interview process is completed through the use in house recruiters and company hiring managers. The results can vary greatly from company to company.

The Market Associates Profiles International Assessments takes the guesswork out of recruiting by providing more effective tools to identify the right people, with the skills, abilities, interests and the appropriate job match. This identification process is performed earlier in the cycle, reducing wasted time, and potential "bad" hires.

Studies have shown that the correlation between the ability to present well in a job interview and the ability to do well on the job is just 14 percent, in other words ---- 1 good employee for every seven people you hire.

The same studies have found that other pre-screening activities significantly improve hiring results.

By adding Background Checks, the quality of hires increases from 14 percent increases to 26 percent (or about 1 in 4 candidates) if the candidate passes the background screening. To increase success rates, a Personality Test assessments that measure personality characteristics. These assessments raised the rate of success in hiring to 38 percent.

When applicants were tested for both abilities and personality, the hiring success rate was about 54 percent (or about half). To take it one step further, by adding interest assessments, a more sophisticated tool. This raises the successful hiring rate to 66 percent.

The studies have found that the most impressive and successful assessments are integrated measures of a combination of factors, including the concept of job match. These types of assessments use cutting-edge technology combined with empirical data to evaluate the candidate against employees who are successful in their career positions.

These recruitment assessments have increased an employer's ability to identify excellent candidates more than 75 percent of the time.

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