It can be difficult for both early career professionals and companies to know whether or not a candidate is prepared for a job. Early career professionals’ lack of experience in the workplace keeps them in the dark about their specific job skills. Similarly, employers don’t know whether the candidate is prepared for the work.
This is where candidate assessments can help. Candidate assessments are valuable tools used to evaluate a candidate’s skills, personality, and fit for the role. In fact, the most commonly used types of assessments are cognitive, behavioral, and situational judgment tests. Ultimately, the goal in evaluating an individual’s skills and experience is to ensure you’re making the best possible hiring decisions to build a team that contributes to your business’s success.
Job experience provides a lot of information about a candidate’s career potential, job fit, behavior, personality traits, and other attributes. But for those who are either recent graduates or new to the workforce, hiring teams need to rely on other solutions to learn this information, such as candidate assessments.
Although candidate assessments are helpful for candidates at any stage of their career, they are especially important for early career professionals because they reveal information that is otherwise hard to discover. Using candidate assessments, hiring teams can learn about a candidate’s working style, technical and interpersonal skills, and potential fit with an existing team.
Beyond helping employers, assessments also help early career professionals gain insight into their own strengths and areas for improvement. This can help candidates more effectively navigate their career exploration.
At Talevation, we provide employers with assessments that help their hiring teams assess skills, behavioral traits, and cognitive abilities to help ensure alignment with job requirements and organizational culture. Among our partners is SHL, an organization that combines more than 40 years of experience in talent assessments to deliver a unique combination of products, experiences, insights, and services to transform hiring processes for any role or talent acquisition campaign.
SHL provides talent assessments for a number of areas of talent acquisition, including early career, graduate, and apprenticeship. In other words, their science-backed assessments are equally useful for companies that want to hire early career professionals seeking job placement, apprenticeships, and internship opportunities—with or without a college degree.
Each solution provided by SHL is tailored to the specific needs of the organization. Depending on the type of assessment, hiring teams can:
By utilizing these assessments that evaluate candidates' skills, behavioral traits, and cognitive abilities, you can make informed hiring decisions and build high-performing teams capable of driving innovation and success.
By partnering with Talevation, you gain access to a wide range of assessments made by highly effective talent assessment providers like SHL. Using these assessments is a key component to securing longevity in the workplace for early career professionals.
Embracing comprehensive assessments as an integral part of the recruitment process ensures that early career professionals embark on fulfilling and sustainable career paths, contributing to their own growth and the success of the organizations they join.
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