How To Assess Candidates To Screen The Right Talent For Your Team [2024]

Finding the right talent for your team can be a challenge, especially when there are so many qualified candidates who apply for a single job post. That’s why small businesses and large companies alike need to assess candidates and test their skills before making a hiring decision. 

To help make this process easier, Easy.Jobs, a modern recruitment solution trusted by 4000+ businesses, comes with an exclusive feature that helps you easily assess candidates, view their scores, and evaluate them to quickly onboard the right talent on your team. Let’s find out more about this advanced assessment feature from Easy.Jobs.

Best Methods To Assess Candidates And Find The Top Talent

Assessment of candidates is not anything new in the hiring process. Businesses all over the world have their own ways to assess candidates and find out who would be the right fit for a particular role on their team. 57% of recruiters use soft skills assessment on potential candidates when they want to make a hiring decision. 

The key challenge here is to determine the right assessment tests for a candidate. That will help you understand the skills and knowledge of the applicant. Below, we take a look at some of the best methods to assess candidates during the hiring process.

1. Assign Work Samples To Potential Candidates

One of the best ways to decide whether a candidate is fit for the job is by assigning a work sample to them and setting them a deadline for completing the task. These types of assessments can help you quickly identify a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses. Also, help you onboard the right talent for your team faster.

Of course, it is important to make sure that the assignment is not overwhelming for the candidate especially if the job requires a certain amount of training beforehand. 

2. Prepare Aptitude Tests To Screen The Right Talent

Aptitude tests are usually one of the first and most important methods recruiters can use to assess candidates. There are many different types of aptitude tests that recruiters can use such as cognitive ability tests, situational judgment tests, and more. Ultimately the type of aptitude test that is appropriate for your hiring process will depend on the job role and responsibilities. But the results will yield valuable insights into what kind of an individual the candidate is so you can make more accurate hiring decisions.

3. Conduct Personality And Emotional Intelligence Tests

When you are looking for candidates in a leadership role, or you are looking for a candidate who will need excellent collaboration skills to work as a team, it is important to be able to assess the candidates’ personality and emotional intelligence. To do that, you can prepare tailored quizzes to understand whether a candidate will be a valuable addition to your team.

How To Assess Candidates Effortlessly With Easy.Jobs

As you can see, there are many methods you can use to assess candidates for a particular job role. However, to be able to carry out these assessments efficiently, you need to use an advanced hiring tool that can streamline the entire process and help you quickly assess and evaluate your job applicants.

This is where Easy.Jobs come in. With this advanced remote recruiting solution, you can organize your hiring process and effortlessly assess candidates, view their scores, and make more accurate decisions.

Step 1: Prepare Your Assessment Questions In Easy.Jobs

If you already have an account with Easy.Jobs, then it is quite easy to take assessments of your candidates. You can prepare a set of assessment questions for different job postings in your organization, and assign candidates to take them at any stage of the recruitment process.

Simply head over to your dashboard and click on the ‘Evaluation’ tab as shown below. Then select the ‘Assessment’ option.

From here, you can create a new assessment question by clicking on the ‘Create Assessment’ button. 

This will take you to a new screen where you can add questions for your assessment test, decide how many marks should be assigned to each question, and set the assessment duration too. 

When you are done, just hit the ‘Save’ button and your assessment test will be ready. Now all that’s left to do is assign candidates to take your assessment test.

Step 2: Invite Candidates To Take Your Assessment

Since you have your assessment test ready, you can easily invite candidates to take your assessment with Easy.Jobs. 

From your dashboard, head over to the job posting and click on ‘Candidates’ to view the list of applicants for the job. Then, select the applicants you want to test and then hit the ‘Assign Assessment’ button. 

You can then set a deadline for the assessment test. If an applicant fails to take the assessment within the given date, the test will expire automatically. 

Of course, you can always change the assessment expiry date at any time in Easy.Jobs. Just head over to the ‘Candidate’ tab from your dashboard and navigate to Evaluation→ Assessment as shown below. If the candidate has not taken the assessment yet, you can click on the ‘Edit’ icon to change the assessment expiry date.

Step 3: View Assessment Score & Select The Ideal Candidate

Once your candidates have taken the assessment tests, you can easily view their assessment scores to make accurate and well-informed hiring decisions. From your dashboard, go to the ‘Candidates’ tab and click on the ‘View Details’ button on any candidate whose score you want to check. 

This will take you to the candidate’s profile. From here, you can click on the ‘Evaluation’ tab as shown below, and then hit the ‘Assessment’ option to see the candidate’s score.

This way, you can effortlessly assess candidates and evaluate them to find out if they are the right fit for your team and make more accurate hiring decisions.

Bonus: How To Use Artificial Intelligence To Assess Candidates?

In addition to this exclusive assessment feature with Easy.Jobs, you can also evaluate and screen candidates with advanced artificial intelligence. Using Easy.Jobs AI, you can quickly get an overall weighted score of a job applicant based on their skills, knowledge, experience, and their performance during the screening tests, quizzes, and assessment tests.

By using these AI-generated scores, you can quickly sort the right candidates for your job postings and make the most appropriate hiring decisions for your organization. Find out more about Easy.Jobs Artificial Intelligence here.

With these simple steps, you can easily screen the right talent for your team using the advanced assessment tools with Easy.Jobs. Try it out for yourself today and share your thoughts with us in the comments below.

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