Why Use an Assessment Tool?

600,000 to 9000 career vacancies are attributable to a
 mismatch between the skills employers seek and those available in the market.
 With 4.6 unemployed people for every job opening in the U.S. and an average of
 3.5 million critical skills employees changing employment monthly, an
 assessment tool can help save you time, frustration, and ultimately money. An assessment tool can help you navigate
 through the sea of job applicants to focus on the most qualified candidates for
 your company.

Hiring one employee that does not have what it takes to do
 the job can cost a company 4-6 times of the mis-hire’s salary. For example, a
 mis-hired sales rep can cost an average of $350,000. Why not use an assessment
 tool that can identify whether a candidate has the necessary behaviors, values,
 knowledge, skills and abilities to do the job BEFORE you hire or promote them? KeenHire
 assessment tools allow you to identify, hire and retain the very best employees
 that drive high performance in your organization.

There are several reasons why your company might want to use
 an assessment tool. Some of these include:

  1. Hiring

  2. Promotion

  3. Development

  4. Career pathing

  5. Succession planning

KeenHire’s
 Recommended Assessment Tools

The key is to define what the position requires first and
 then select the appropriate assessment tool that fits your needs. KeenHire has proven experience and expertise
 in evaluating, recommending, administering and interpreting assessment tools across
 multiple industries and job roles. KeenHire
 has spent over seven years analyzing the top psychometric assessment tools in
 the marketplace. There are several assessment tools that we endorse depending
 on what the position is, how the assessment will be used and the type of assessment
 desired.

  1. Skill
         and Competency assessment tools might measure hard skills like Microsoft Excel
         or JAVA programming along with soft skills like resiliency or personal
         accountability. These areas can easily be developed in a candidate if a company
         is willing to the invest time and resources for training.

  2. Mental
         Acuity assessment tools examine a candidate’s abilities or capacity. Oftentimes
         these tools involve timed tests that determine how quickly the candidate can
         learn new information, verbal abilities, numerical perception or how much
         information they can remember.

  3. Emotional
         Intelligence assessments provide a glimpse of how the candidate or employee
         relates to the outside world as well as how they relate to themselves. These
         assessment tools are critical to administer for customer facing positions that
         involve heavy interaction with people.

  4. Personality
         and Behavioral assessment tools examine how the candidate acts and communicates
         on the job. It is important to determine if a job rewards a candidate’s natural
         behaviors since behaviors are not easily changed overtime.

  5. Interest,
         Value and Motivation assessment tools evaluate what is important to a candidate
         and why they go to work. Since a person’s motivations remain stable, this is an
         important area to match with the job and work environment.

KeenHire’s Assessment
 Tool Descriptions

Pre-Employment Assessment

  1. KeenInsight
     

  2. Pre
         Screener

  3. Mental
         Acuity

  4. The
         Big 5 Personality

  5. 20
         minutes to complete

  6. Average
         Cost 25.00-40.00 based on volume

  7. Annual
         Subscription available based on volume (unlimited usage)

Mid-level Position Assessments

  1. Personal Interests, Values and Motivators
     

  2. Excellent
         Prelim assessment for key roles (e.g., Sales)

  3. Six
         Key Motivators (e.g., social, individualistic, utilitarian)

  4. 10
         minutes to complete

  5. $85
         per assessment

  1. Personal Skills and Competencies
     

  2. Excellent
         for hiring, on-boarding, and coaching

  3. 64
         skills and emotional intelligence (e.g., resiliency, self-starter, goal
         orientation, empathetic outlook, interpersonal skills, personal accountability)

  4. Identify
         basic strengths and weaknesses within the candidate’s skills

  5. Customized
         Options for Sales, Customer Service and Executive positions

  6. Excellent
         for hiring, on-boarding, and coaching

  7. 10
         minutes to complete

  8. Between
         $120 – $180.00 per assessment depending on volume

  9. The Job Fit
     

  10. Excellent
         for hiring, on-boarding, coaching and career development

  11. 6
         Mental Acuities

  12. 10
         Personality Factors

  13. Standardized
         Benchmarks for 100s of positions (e.g., sales, finance, technology, human
         resources, management, executive)

  14. 1
         hour to complete

  15. Between
         $175-$195 per assessment depending on volume

Executive Level, Leadership & Developmental Assessments

  1. The Innermetrix
     

  2. Hiring,
         Development, Leadership, 360, RX
         program

  3. Most
         comprehensive

  4. Competencies,
         Behaviors, Values, Emotional Intelligence

  5. 40
         minutes to complete

  6. Approx
         $365- $450 per assessment

  7. The DiSC
     

  8. Not
         a hiring tool! For on-boarding, communication and team building

  9. 4
         Quadrants of Personality

  10. Communication
         Style, Work Style preferences and Job Fit

  11. 10
         minutes to complete

  12. Approx
         $62.50 -78.00 per assessment depending on volume and type of report

Not sure what assessment tool is right for you….Join a
 Choose Your Assessments Wisely Workshop: Click here to read more about
 selecting the right assessment tool.