Employment Testing

Employment Tests

As a help in understanding and choosing exactly which sort of report you need we offer the following clarification. Some references and extracts have been sourced from Wikipedia.

Employment testing is the practice of administering written, oral or other tests as a means of determining the suitability or desirability of a job applicant. The premise is that if scores on a test correlate with job performance, then it is economically useful for the employer to select employees based on scores from that test.

Under the USA Equal Employment Opportunity legislation employers considering the use of employment tests, particularly knowledge and aptitude-based tests, should perform due diligence to assure that questions are reasonably related to the job; advice from counsel may be sensible. An example of "reasonably related" might be giving a math test to applicants for engineering positions, as math is used in such jobs. In order to comply with the decision in Griggs, the employer must assure the test is a reasonable measure of job performance. Therefore, if the math questions were engineering related, and not from other disciplines, and it were documented that employees lacking a reasonable knowledge of math capabilities would not succeed as engineers, the test would meet the Griggs test. Conversely, requiring a math test for a receptionist may be considered unreasonable if math is unrelated to the daily requirements of the job. For all employment tests, common sense and reasonableness must apply.

The Apollo Profile Recruitment Test Report

The Apollo Profile is a professionally designed and validated psychometric test and a factor-based personality test. It reports on 34 aspects for job suitability and career success. The Apollo Profile Recruitment Test is a purpose built report designed for helping recruiters match applicants to jobs. Through using a proprietary algorithm the Apollo Recruitment Test can numerically compare candidates to other appropriate norm groups to provide a numerical likelihood for overall job suitability and for specific role requirements. A narrative description of the meaning of all scores is provided. Apollo offers other purpose designed reports for Staff Development and Career Development.

Apollo also offer a Job Analysis and Candidate Evaluation tool called Apollo Select which enables a recruiter to analyse the job/role, and list any skills, knowledge, attitudes and qualifications sought, and is integrated with the Apollo Profile test to provide a total summary of all applicants suitability on the one form. See www.apolloselect.com.au