Benefits to identifying and using assessments for hiring employees include:
- Making better, more defensible hiring decisions
- Increasing the productivity and profitability
- Improving job fit and reducing employee attrition
- Reducing unnecessary human resources costs by reserving more costly interviewing and background screening steps for candidates who are successful on the assessments
- Decreasing the risk of candidates filing justifiable hiring complaints
- Presenting a positive and professional image to job candidates
- Increased process efficiency and decreased candidate processing time (e.g., staff time required to review resumes or conduct interviews)
- Enhanced legal defensibility of the hiring process (e.g., ease of moving through OFCCP audits)
- Reduced training caused by hiring unqualified employees
- Fewer performance problems caused by hiring employees who interviewed well but were not the best candidates for the job
- Better qualified and, therefore, more effective workforce
