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:
Hiring
Promotion
Development
Career pathing
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
KeenInsight
Pre Screener
Mental Acuity
The Big 5 Personality
20 minutes to complete
Average Cost 25.00-40.00 based on volume
Annual Subscription available based on volume (unlimited usage)
Mid-level Position Assessments
Personal Interests, Values and Motivators
Excellent Prelim assessment for key roles (e.g., Sales)
Six Key Motivators (e.g., social, individualistic, utilitarian)
10 minutes to complete
$85 per assessment
Personal Skills and Competencies
Excellent for hiring, on-boarding, and coaching
64 skills and emotional intelligence (e.g., resiliency, self-starter, goal orientation, empathetic outlook, interpersonal skills, personal accountability)
Identify basic strengths and weaknesses within the candidate’s skills
Customized Options for Sales, Customer Service and Executive positions
Excellent for hiring, on-boarding, and coaching
10 minutes to complete
Between $120 – $180.00 per assessment depending on volume
The Job Fit
Excellent for hiring, on-boarding, coaching and career development
6 Mental Acuities
10 Personality Factors
Standardized Benchmarks for 100s of positions (e.g., sales, finance, technology, human resources, management, executive)
1 hour to complete
Between $175-$195 per assessment depending on volume
Executive Level, Leadership & Developmental Assessments
The Innermetrix
Hiring, Development, Leadership, 360, RX program
Most comprehensive
Competencies, Behaviors, Values, Emotional Intelligence
40 minutes to complete
Approx $365- $450 per assessment
The DiSC
Not a hiring tool! For on-boarding, communication and team building
4 Quadrants of Personality
Communication Style, Work Style preferences and Job Fit
10 minutes to complete
Approx $62.50 -78.00 per assessment depending on volume and type of report
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