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provides an online report entitled Testing and Assessment: An
Employer’s Guide to Good Practices that provides good guidance on
establishing an effective assessment process in your company. http://
wdr.doleta.gov/opr/fulltext/document.cfm?docn=6032
A-Player Payoff Points
Chapter 10: Popping the Hood on Candidates Using
Assessment Tools
Good assessment tools help you to pop the hood on job
candidates and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses relative
to a position’s requirements.
You will make serious and costly mistakes if you rely too
much on first impressions and gut feel when hiring. Assessment
tools help you to check your emotional reactions to
people with more objective data.
Companies often hire the wrong person because they have
not accurately defined the A-Player Profile for a position.
The right assessment tools capture and quantify this Profile
so you can compare job candidates to it.
A-players often have a unique combination of skills that
average performers lack. Assessment tools help you to pinpoint
these skills and watch for them in every person that
you interview.
People can have all the skills in the world, but they will not
succeed if they lack the right motivation. Use assessment
tools to determine if people are motivated by the rewards
that your company and position have to offer them.
Every company wants to hire people who fit well into its
culture. The right assessment tools help you to identify potential
cultural misfits before you hire them.
There is no replacement for personal drive and ambition.
Using assessment tools helps you to see if people are willing
to pay the cost required to be successful.