Psychometric Test: Parameters to be evaluated
In today’s
recruitment scenario, various tests are done to complete the recruitment
process and one of the tests is the psychometric test. This
test is conducted to check the candidate ability for an applied job. These
tests are helpful for the selection process, during evaluation and promotions,
and in training and development of employees. Psychometric tests are
standardized and systematic tools to help an industry recruiter to create a
fair field for all the employees that he may want to be chosen. It helps them
to compare several candidates, based on their strengths and weaknesses
regardless of their background and history.
Importance
of psychometric test:
·
Develops a sense of fair
recruiting.
·
Help to choose the best
candidates for the organisation.
·
Made the recruitment process
easy.
·
Measure various parameters of
the candidate.
·
Helpful to assess candidate
hidden traits.
Parameters to be evaluated while choosing a candidate:
·
Communication skills.
First and
foremost the most basic requirement for any candidate is to being evaluated on
a psychometric test is that the candidate should understand and be able to read
and write the language in which the test is conducted and at least have a basic
working knowledge of it. If basic language and communication skills are weak or
are not of the desired level, this will reduce the aim of the testing process
eventually.
·
Basic apprehension
It is also
must to check whether the candidate has the basic apprehension skills. it means
that-, one needs to check whether he or she can understand the meaning of the
test conducted and should know how to attend the answer to the question given
in the test. This can be done during the rapid building process if the testing
is done face to face, i.e. via interview. If it is an online assessment, a
small Proforma is done in which the demographic details check for the basic
apprehension skills that are filled by the candidate and if it is found that
the candidate doesn't have the basic necessary apprehension skills and would
find that he or she is having problem to understand the test modules, then
testing can be stopped immediately at that point.
·
Understanding rules and regulation.
During the
testing process, it needs to be cross-checked whether the candidate has
understood the test instructions completely and should know what is expected
from him or her while giving an answer to the test. Most importantly, it needs
to be checked that he understands how to mark the answers of the tests so to
avoid him from making any marking errors. If this is not done properly, the
whole testing process can go wrong.
·
Being sincere and ambition.
It is
important to notify the candidate that he or she needs to be ambition and
truthful while answering the test. Most organisations conduct the
Competency-Based Interview [CBI] and can detect if one is giving a fake answer
or not. Therefore, it is vital for the candidate to be away from the
temptations and of creating a fake socially desired person.
Thus, these
are the parameters upon which the candidate is evaluated during the Psychometric test process.
It overall checks for the candidate ability for the required jobs and chooses
the best candidate without any biasing.
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