“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion”
- Dale Carnegie

Online Tests:
The New Bright Future for HR Managers and Recruitment Consultants

Online assessment is transforming personality assessment and hiring practices around the globe, and its growth shows no signs of slowing.

Last year alone, Psychometric Testing companies worldwide delivered 5 million online tests and assessments and saw a 45 per cent increase in revenues.

What is creating this steep demand in the number of online assessments?

Ever widening talent pool of candidates from a wider range of backgrounds than before is creating demand. Furthermore, the global workforce is becoming increasingly mobile and a tightening labour market in most economies means that organizations need to consider applicants from all walks of life.

These demographic shifts mean that organizations can no longer rely on a single homogeneous 'traditional' source of recruits, but must work to expand the reach of their attraction techniques and create a much larger and more diverse talent pool.

How can recruiters devise a consistent assessment system that is fair to all applicants; and how can they reach this diverse and geographically dispersed candidate pool to implement these assessments in a fast and effective manner?

Psychometric tests administered on the Internet offer the best solution to these issues. It provides a fair and equitable approach for all candidates that implements standard benchmarks of ability and preferred working styles without unfair discrimination against any particular group. It is also very simple to administer, saves time for the organization and the candidate.

Future trends in Assessments
and Testing

The whole area of assessment and testing is growing rapidly fuelled by constant demand for better management information relating to people, skills shortages and a need for solutions to problems like high staff turnover, hiring the wrong people, low productivity, poor management skills and lack of team working.

All of these problems can be significantly reduced with the right assessments!

A vision of the future would be an organization that uses the same tool to hire the right people, motivate them, coach them, plan their career long term and improve their productivity.

The good news is that the future has arrived! It’s possible to do this right now with Myprofile, using MYPROFILE JOBS & CAREER assessments for RECRUITMENT & HIRING; MYCOACH assessments for TRAINING AND MANAGING; and MYSALESSUCCESS assessments for SALES TRAINING. Contact us for more information.

The implications for employers are substantial as we can understand much better why our top performing employees are so good. We can also predict from potential new staff whether (or not) they will be superior performers too! Why is this?

Psychometric assessments have become more accurate. It follows that this enables us to obtain more accurate and objective management information about people.

Choose a test that offers job matching

The better tools these days include “job matching” at an advanced level where a range of relevant scales can be benchmarked to any role. This means that they can be used to predict (to a high level of accuracy) whether someone will perform to an above average level in any role. This is wonderful information to help take the risk out of recruitment or promotion. . Myprofile’s ‘job matching’ feature JOB PROFILER is provided free to Myprofile clients.

Discovering Your Needs

The right ‘fit’ in a job comes when the work satisfies your inner needs. A need is a force, a wanting, and a passion that may or may not be conscious.

This desire runs through every life, but it often gets thwarted when we ignore our feelings. When the work you do satisfies this desire you will feel happy. If your current job or business is not meeting this need, you try to make up for it on the weekend, with hobbies, friends, perhaps overindulgence in drink or other escapes. By noon on Monday, you are deflated, counting the days until next Friday. You wonder if this is all there is to your life.

When you begin looking for the right environment, it helps to think about nature’s way. You do not find a pine tree in the middle of the Mohave Desert. If you are constantly wanting to run things yourself, and have always done so since your flower was a tiny bud, then do not plant yourself in a big corporation. Look at small businesses, under 20 employees.

You will know your environment is right when you sense the pleasant growth of yourself’ you are glad to be learning what you are learning and you like the other flowers around you.

New products coming in November

Two great new products will be available from Myprofile from 5th November – MYSALESSUCCESS and MYCAREER MATCH. Check out the Myprofile website for a sneak preview

Upgrade your service and offer your clients additional HR solutions

Contact Myprofile to upgrade your existing Myprofile service to include MYCOACH and MYSALESSUCCESS. Email: Nathan@myprofile.com.au  for details