Your 5-point checklist to choose the right pre-employment assessment solution

Your checklist

Use this checklist to ensure your company chooses the right pre-employment company to partner with.

• Does the platform help achieve the goals my team has set?

Working with a pre-employment assessment company enables your business to define your ideal recruitment process. What candidates are needed and the essential skillset your company is looking for. Taking the time at this stage will pay massive dividends later. In addition, partnering with the right outsourced service providers is a proven way to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

• Does the platform meet regulatory requirements?

As employment law is highly complex and with the drive for more inclusion, the pre-assessment company you choose should have clearly defined systems to deliver candidates that meet your enterprise's specific requirements. Having a diverse workforce has been proven to be one of the single most transformative components of modern business. Therefore, ensure your pre-assessment service provider can deliver the diverse and inclusive candidates your business needs to thrive.

• Does the platform support integration with existing human resource systems?

HR continues to embrace the benefits of automation and benefit from integrating what had previously been separate components of the HR tech stack together. It's essential that the pre-employment assessment service provider's digital systems can integrate and interface with your HR services. Often, this is delivered with an API. Look for ease of deployment with leading platforms such as Workable, SmartRecruiters, and Visiotalent, and the ability of the service to grow and evolve as your business does.

• Is the pre-employment assessment platform fully digital and adaptable?

The hiring  process has also been radically changing as distance working became the norm. According to Reboot Digital Marketing, the technology industry has the most challenging interviews with a score of 3.5 out of 5. A key component of your business’s pre-employment assessments is to make the hiring  process as seamless and comprehensive as possible. Having language assessment options built into the pre-employment tool in use is vital for some enterprises.

• Does the platform provide easy-to-read results and reports?

The reports that the pre-assessment service provider delivers to your company should, of course, highlight the best candidates and allow you to customize the reports and the information they contain. Can you create bespoke benchmarks for specific roles? Reports should be easily interpreted. And the service provider should have comprehensive customer service support when your business needs help.

Getting recruitment right has never been more important than it is today. Jayson Darby, Head of Science, Thomas, says: "When recruitment activity surges, the risk of getting it wrong increases, too. That is because with more live roles and more candidates it becomes harder to ensure a consistent experience for everyone involved. If recruitment processes aren’t grounded in objective data about how people behave and learn, the risk of biased and subjective decision-making is higher. That isn’t good for candidates or hiring managers. Companies today are likely to experience these challenges like never before as we enter an accelerated period of recruitment in the post-pandemic recovery period.”

Assessing the candidates that apply for your company’s vacancies is a critical component of your enterprise’s recruiting processes. Your business needs to innovate at speed. This means having the best people to help your enterprise thrive in its marketplace. Partnering with a specialist recruitment assessment specialist delivers reliable, repeatable, and quantifiable human capital management systems that can form the foundation of your business’s future workforce and prosperity.

You can schedule a meeting with us to find out how Pipplet can effectively integrate comprehensive language skills testing into your recruiting processes and become your essential pre-employment assessment partner.